vincent collet
International FootballPassports and National Shirts: FIFA's Real Rules and the Price of a Naturalisation SignatureOn 5 January 2026, in the stands of the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, I...
International Football£6.7 Billion in Rights and an Unpatched Crack: When Paying Fans Still PirateIn May, I was sitting in a pub in east London next to a friend who works as a...
SwimmingZona Smith Commits to Florida for 2028: Where the Short-Course Times Flatter HerIn March, at Cary Sectionals, an eleventh-grader named Arizona Smith entered...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw, a Compressed Schedule, and Numbers That Refuse to Stand StillOn September 26, 2026, on the badminton schedule at the Asian Games 2026 in...
ChessIndia Defend Chess Throne at 2026 Olympiad: Official Schedule and the Uzbekistan EquationWhen FIDE finalized the official schedule for the 46th Chess Olympiad in...
BadmintonSatwik-Chirag Win China Masters: A Ten-Point Defeat and India's First TitleThe scoreboard read 11-21 after the opening game, and in that moment the aren...
EsportsThe Silent Summer of Korean Women's Sports: When Heartbeats Go UnrecordedI sat in a café in Incheon, my laptop screen displaying the statistical table...
Esportssiuhy Leaves Team Liquid: The End of a 16-Month IGL ExperimentWhen Team Liquid confirmed that Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek had been moved to fre...
VolleyballBrazil Reign Supreme in South America, Seal Women's Volleyball Olympic Spot, and the Data Gap Behind the 3-0 Win Over ArgentinaMaracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro. The first set stretched to 26-24 — the only...
Martial ArtsVolkanovski after UFC 333: when the matchmaking machine never asks the medical fileThree days after UFC 333 closed, the "next opponent" columns sprouted thick a...
TennisShanghai Masters: Davidovich Fokina Stuns Zverev, All-Spanish Final Against JodarThe Shanghai Masters semifinal ended at the last possible moment with a slice...
International FootballSingapore 0-6 Malaysia: Goal Difference, the Ghost of 2026, and a Match That Was Not OrdinaryIn the 8th minute, Bergson stepped up to the penalty spot and opened the...
International FootballThe Vélodrome and Two Different Crises: Luis Enrique's Warning Is Being MisreadIn a press room in Paris, Luis Enrique said something that French media...
VolleyballNCAA Women's Volleyball Week 3 Power 10: TCU and Tennessee Enter, Penn State Exits After 3-1 Loss to TennesseeInside the gym, after the whistle that closed the fourth set, the Penn State...
BadmintonSindhu Falls to Chen Yufei in Asian Games 2026 Quarter-final: A Dominant First Game Was the First Draft of DefeatThe decisive moment in the women's singles badminton quarter-final at...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Data Sheet and the Discipline of Verification in Vietnamese Combat SportsA fight night at Phú Thọ Stadium last month. A Vietnamese MMA fighter steps...
VolleyballShock at CEV EuroVolley 2026: Finland Stun Reigning World Champions Italy 3-2 to Seal 2027 World Cup BerthFINLAND STUN REIGNING WORLD CHAMPIONS ITALY 3-2 IN THE QUARTERFINALS TO SEAL ...
International FootballWhen the Data Falls Silent: The Discipline of a Vietnamese Football AnalystIn 2026, at the age of 58, I sat in a coffee shop on Nguyen Van Linh Street i...
International FootballJunya Ito deployed at right-back for the first time: Moriyasu's depth test at Kirin Cup 2026A 33-year-old came on from the substitutes' bench, but stood where he had nev...
Table TennisWhen Data Stays Silent: A Professional Note from an Empty Press RoomThere was no chair for me in that press room, but I brought my own. Years...
