Martial Arts
A Rain of Bronze and a Semifinal Wall: Reading Vietnam's Wushu Day Properly
The Semifinal Is the Ceiling: A Cold Accounting of Vietnam's Wushu Medal Haul at the Asian Games
Three Rounds on the Leitai: Who Really Holds the Edge in the Vietnam vs China 56kg Final
The Semifinal Is the Instrument: The Real Geometry of Vietnam's Wushu Bronzes
A Tie in the Sword, a Medal in the Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Four Asiads and the Auditing Ledger of Martial Arts
The Semifinal Is the Instrument: The Real Geometry of Vietnam's Wushu BronzesThe night of September 23. Two screens on the desk in Seoul — one carrying th...
A Tie in the Sword, a Medal in the Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Four Asiads and the Auditing Ledger of Martial ArtsChattogram, 2:40 a.m. The stream stutters on my laptop — sound sometimes ahea...
A Rain of Bronze and a Semifinal Wall: Reading Vietnam's Wushu Day ProperlySeptember 23, wushu venue at the Asian Games. Four bronzes land in Vietnam's...
Four Bronzes, One Final, and the Lesson Beyond the Lei Tai for BangladeshOn the night of September 23, Vietnamese sports pages kept circulating the sa...
The Semifinal Is the Ceiling: A Cold Accounting of Vietnam's Wushu Medal Haul at the Asian GamesIn the final night of the national karate championship at Dhaka's NSC...
Sanda 56kg Final: China's Six Golds in Seven, and Vietnam's One ChallengerMacau World Cup final, third round, forty seconds on the clock. Dinh Van Tam ...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna, Then the Floor: The Asiad 2026 Weight-Cut Incident Nobody CountedThirty minutes in the sauna. Then the floor. On a September morning in...
Three Rounds on the Leitai: Who Really Holds the Edge in the Vietnam vs China 56kg FinalThe stretcher came off the leitai in silence. Ou Jiaming's punch had ended...
Asiad 20: Lò Thị Phung One Round From Bronze, and the Ledger Is Hidden in Her CornerSeptember 20, 2026, afternoon. The result came after the third round of the...
Sanda 56kg Final: Vietnam's Throw Against China's Golden WallSanda 56kg final: Vietnam's throw against China's golden wall The story broke...
There Is No "5-0" in Kata: Reading Vietnam's Gold From a Nagoya Medal TableHook I did not watch it live. On September 22, at 14:20, Vietnam's flag jumpe...
One Debut Sport, One Demonstration Kata: The Two Receipts Behind Vietnam's First Asiad 20 MedalTwo bronzes sit beside Vietnam's name on the Asiad 20 medal table, and the...