Martial Arts
Martial Arts42–41 at Aichi Sky Expo: The One Touch That Broke a Three-Games WallThe last hour of Hall Five at Aichi Sky Expo is always quiet. Chairs stacked ...
Martial ArtsOne Bronze, One Win: What Singapore's Asian Games Epee Medal Is Really Hiding42–41. That number cost me a night of sleep. Last week I sat by the window of...
Martial ArtsSilence on the Aichi Sky Expo Piste: The Skipped Beat Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThe Aichi Sky Expo fencing hall. The loudest sound after the final touch is...
Martial ArtsWhere the Machine Delivers the Verdict: Singapore's First Épée Bronze and the Arithmetic of 42–41Where the Machine Delivers the Verdict: Singapore's First Épée Bronze and the...
Martial ArtsThe Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: 42–41, a Bronze, and the Gap Inside the ArithmeticHall 3 of the Aichi Sky Expo, 8:10 p.m. Two teenage volunteers coil the scori...
Martial ArtsThe 45-Touch Clock: What Singapore's Épée Bronze Opens, and What It Leaves Shut42–41. Overtime. In Osaka it was close to eleven at night when the scoreboard...
Martial ArtsSingapore's First Épée Team Bronze: What 42–41 Explains, and What 35–45 Refuses ToAt 1 a.m. in a six-storey walk-up in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, I watched the stri...
Martial ArtsThree Medals, One Touch, One Ledger: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and Our Four Karate GoldsThree Medals, One Touch, One Ledger: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and Our Four...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of Ninety Centimetres: Singapore's Epee Bronze, Three Games of Bottleneck, and Korea's Ten TouchesThey laid the piste on the exhibition-hall floor at Aichi Sky Expo. Narrow...
Martial ArtsNot 42–41 but 35–45: Reading Singapore's Fencing Bronze From Beside NagoyaI didn't watch it live — and this time the distance ran the other way....
Martial ArtsThe Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze, and the Honest Mirror of 45–35The Last Hour at Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze, and the...
Martial ArtsAsian Games History: Singapore's First Team Bronze in Fencing, Elle Koh's Overtime HeroicsStanding on a Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening....
