asiad 2026
Martial ArtsVirtual Taekwondo debuts at the 2026 Asian Games: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang and Vietnam's early-investment betInside a closed training hall, there is no thud of gloves against chest pads,...
BadmintonIndia Women's Badminton Team Opens Asian Games 2026: A Tie Outside Every Ranking CalculationIn the live blog of the opening day of the 2026 Asian Games, thirty-one...
Martial ArtsVirtual Taekwondo at the 2026 Asian Games: Vietnam Bets on an Event With No Reigning ChampionOn the morning of October 2, 2026, at an arena inside the Asian Games compoun...
VolleyballThailand lose to China in Asian Games semifinal: a lesson about physicality and systemThat night, in the arena of the Asian Games semifinal, Thailand had just save...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan and the Data Melancholy: Vietnamese Athletics After the Jakarta 2026 Golden EraIn the results sheet of the women's 400m hurdles at the 2026 Jakarta Asian...
AthleticsVietnam's Track and the Void After the Jakarta GoldQuach Thi Lan's gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles was not awarded on the...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson, Chen Yujie and the Forgotten Data Problem at ASIAD 2026Lane four, men's 100m final. When Puripol Boonson crossed the line, the board...
Martial ArtsDefeating world champion, Nguyen Thi Tam enters Asiad 2026 gold medal finalBefore the bell ending the third round had fully faded, Nguyen Thi Tam raised...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong's 46 Points: A Medical-Room Verdict Before the China QuarterfinalA hamstring does not tear in a single day; it whispers from months before. I...
EsportsVietnam reach ASIAD 2026 semifinals: A perfect group stage is a statement, the real test still awaitsAs early as the 14th minute of the opening match in Group A, when Vietnam's...
BadmintonASIAD 2026 Men's Singles Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew and Kunlavut Vitidsarn at a Door History Has Never OpenedThree tension checks, and the net cord hissed inside the Ichinomiya City...
AthleticsASIAD 2026: Vietnam caught between Southeast Asian supremacy and Asia's podiumInside the press conference room at the ASIAD 2026 athletes' village, Vietnam...
Martial ArtsAsiad 2026: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang and the Medal That Sits in a Discipline With No Ranking YetI walked into the training hall on a September morning. Vietnam's taekwondo...
Martial ArtsAsiad 2026: Vietnam's Real Taekwondo Medal Ticket Sits on October 3One month. That was the entire runway Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang had to learn an...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson and the 9.90 Mark: Where Are the Limits for Asia's Track ChallengerOn September 25, on the track of ASIAD 2026 held in Japan, a 20-year-old Thai...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson's 9.90 Seconds: A Test Without an Answer YetOn the ASIAD 2026 track on September 25, Puripol Boonson crossed the line in...
Domestic FootballVietnam U23 vs South Korea U23 in the Asiad 2026 Quarter-final: The Match Lives in the Space Behind the Korean MidfieldLee Gi Hyuk's shin was bruised in the 27th minute of South Korea U23s match...
Domestic FootballASIAD 2026: Japan beat Thailand 3-0 in a dead rubber, and the four quarter-final ties remain inside a data blind spotOn the electronic board in Aichi the score read 4-0. Kyrgyzstan won. And...
Domestic FootballCoach Dinh Hong Vinh not satisfied despite reaching ASIAD 2026 quarterfinalsPaloma Mizuho, Nagoya, afternoon of September 22, 2026. The final whistle...
VolleyballASIAD 2026: Vietnam vs Kazakhstan and the Overload Trail on Thanh Thuy's BodyThe day Vietnam's women's national volleyball team faces Kazakhstan in the...
VolleyballIndonesian Women's Volleyball Fall 0-3 to Chinese Taipei: The Third-Set Crack and the Real Gap in Asia's Second TierWhen the referee's whistle ended the fifth-place playoff, Chinese Taipei's...
International FootballKuwait's Greedy Exit Problem: Waiting for the Empty Stands to Teach Philippines How to Let GoThe match between U23 Kuwait and U23 Philippines at ASIAD 2026 does not sit o...
Domestic FootballOne Minute for Ngoc Minh Chuyen: Vietnam Women's Football Between ASIAD 2026 and an Unformed TransitionIn the seventieth minute of the match against Thailand, I sat in front of the...
Domestic FootballGenerational Transition in Vietnam Women's Team: A Blueprint Moving Faster Than Its BuildersSitting in the France Bleu Paris studio on a late-August evening, I replayed...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses During Weight Cut at ASIAD 2026: The Scale Never Lies, But the System DoesThe scariest moment at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya did not happen...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong, 46 Points and the Biggest Block Test of Her LifeEleven in the morning on September 20. I was in the technical area before...
BadmintonIndia's Projected Path at the 2026 Asian Games: Two Pillars and a Fragile BracketWhen the final whistle echoed at the Hangzhou 2026 men's team badminton final...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong's 46 Points: Half a Truth Before the Doorstep of ChinaThe Qatar match ended in 49 minutes. That is the first number I wrote down in...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong, 46 Points and the Missing Denominator Before China11 a.m., September 20. At multi-sport Games, that is the slot organisers...
VolleyballQuynh Huong's 46 points and the China trap: Why I do not dare to trust an ASIAD scoring leadWriting on an old laptop, I never imagined I was typing tests of fate. On the...
VolleyballASIAD 2026: Pham Quynh Huong and the Path to the Real TestSeptember 20, 11:00 AM. That is when Vietnam's women's volleyball team enters...
EsportsFaker Withdraws From Ralph Lauren Event on Health Grounds: ASIAD 2026 and Worlds 2026 Sit Inside the Same FortnightA name card placed in front of a chair that no one sits in. At commercial...
EsportsFaker's Wrist and the Two-Week Crossroads: When ASIAD 2026 Collides With Worlds 2026Ralph Lauren made an announcement midweek. Faker, T1's mid laner, would not...
EsportsWhat's Scarier Than Faker's Wrist Injury Is the August CalendarI once said on air that Korean esports fans are the most patient people I hav...
Domestic FootballCoach Dinh Hong Vinh and the Black Shirt: Minute 74 Exposes the Problem U23 Vietnam Has Not SolvedAt minute 74 of the match between U23 Vietnam and U23 Philippines in the men'...
Martial ArtsVietnam Taekwondo at Asiad 2026: Two Women's Weight Classes Carry the Entire Medal ExpectationMy personal tracking sheet on the Vietnam taekwondo team has a line circled i...
Martial ArtsThree Streams of Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Ring, The Stage and the Village YardAt 5:12 a.m. on January 6, 2026, in a gym tucked inside an alley off Nguyen...
Martial ArtsVietnam's Poomsae in Chuncheon: Three Golds and a Path Nobody ChoseIn Chuncheon, across three days of competition at the World Poomsae...
SwimmingThe Empty Data File and Where a Swimming Analyst Really StandsAt 6:47 in the morning, at a coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, I...
Domestic FootballVietnam U23 Lands in Nagoya: Asiad 2026, an Unclosed Squad and Three Matches That Wait for No OneAt 00:15 on September 13, there was no stand, no red scarf, no drumbeat at th...
Martial ArtsChuncheon and Six U50 Faces: Vietnam's Taekwondo Gold Hunt Rests on Synchrony, Not on Individual FeetChuncheon and Six U50 Faces: Vietnam's Taekwondo Gold Hunt Rests on Synchrony...
Martial ArtsVietnam Poomsae in Chuncheon: The Team-Medal Model and the Gap Behind ItIn 2026, after the world poomsae championships, I wrote three lines into my...
Domestic FootballVietnam women's football team ready to compete at Asiad 2026: In-depth analysis of preparation journey and advancement opportunitiesIn a press conference held in mid-September, Head Coach Hoang Van Phuc...
BadmintonNgo Dinh Nam: From the Burden of Expectations to the Moment of Brilliance at VICT Open 2026Sitting on the sofa in the player lounge, Ngo Dinh Nam lowered his head to lo...
BadmintonIndia Women's Badminton Team Opens Asian Games 2026: A Tie Outside Every Ranking CalculationIn the live blog of the opening day of the 2026 Asian Games, thirty-one...
Martial ArtsVirtual Taekwondo at the 2026 Asian Games: Vietnam Bets on an Event With No Reigning ChampionOn the morning of October 2, 2026, at an arena inside the Asian Games compoun...
VolleyballThailand lose to China in Asian Games semifinal: a lesson about physicality and systemThat night, in the arena of the Asian Games semifinal, Thailand had just save...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan and the Data Melancholy: Vietnamese Athletics After the Jakarta 2026 Golden EraIn the results sheet of the women's 400m hurdles at the 2026 Jakarta Asian...
AthleticsVietnam's Track and the Void After the Jakarta GoldQuach Thi Lan's gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles was not awarded on the...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson, Chen Yujie and the Forgotten Data Problem at ASIAD 2026Lane four, men's 100m final. When Puripol Boonson crossed the line, the board...
Martial ArtsDefeating world champion, Nguyen Thi Tam enters Asiad 2026 gold medal finalBefore the bell ending the third round had fully faded, Nguyen Thi Tam raised...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong's 46 Points: A Medical-Room Verdict Before the China QuarterfinalA hamstring does not tear in a single day; it whispers from months before. I...
EsportsVietnam reach ASIAD 2026 semifinals: A perfect group stage is a statement, the real test still awaitsAs early as the 14th minute of the opening match in Group A, when Vietnam's...
BadmintonASIAD 2026 Men's Singles Badminton Final: Loh Kean Yew and Kunlavut Vitidsarn at a Door History Has Never OpenedThree tension checks, and the net cord hissed inside the Ichinomiya City...
AthleticsASIAD 2026: Vietnam caught between Southeast Asian supremacy and Asia's podiumInside the press conference room at the ASIAD 2026 athletes' village, Vietnam...
Martial ArtsAsiad 2026: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang and the Medal That Sits in a Discipline With No Ranking YetI walked into the training hall on a September morning. Vietnam's taekwondo...
Martial ArtsAsiad 2026: Vietnam's Real Taekwondo Medal Ticket Sits on October 3One month. That was the entire runway Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang had to learn an...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson and the 9.90 Mark: Where Are the Limits for Asia's Track ChallengerOn September 25, on the track of ASIAD 2026 held in Japan, a 20-year-old Thai...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson's 9.90 Seconds: A Test Without an Answer YetOn the ASIAD 2026 track on September 25, Puripol Boonson crossed the line in...
Domestic FootballVietnam U23 vs South Korea U23 in the Asiad 2026 Quarter-final: The Match Lives in the Space Behind the Korean MidfieldLee Gi Hyuk's shin was bruised in the 27th minute of South Korea U23s match...
Domestic FootballASIAD 2026: Japan beat Thailand 3-0 in a dead rubber, and the four quarter-final ties remain inside a data blind spotOn the electronic board in Aichi the score read 4-0. Kyrgyzstan won. And...
Domestic FootballCoach Dinh Hong Vinh not satisfied despite reaching ASIAD 2026 quarterfinalsPaloma Mizuho, Nagoya, afternoon of September 22, 2026. The final whistle...
VolleyballASIAD 2026: Vietnam vs Kazakhstan and the Overload Trail on Thanh Thuy's BodyThe day Vietnam's women's national volleyball team faces Kazakhstan in the...
VolleyballIndonesian Women's Volleyball Fall 0-3 to Chinese Taipei: The Third-Set Crack and the Real Gap in Asia's Second TierWhen the referee's whistle ended the fifth-place playoff, Chinese Taipei's...
International FootballKuwait's Greedy Exit Problem: Waiting for the Empty Stands to Teach Philippines How to Let GoThe match between U23 Kuwait and U23 Philippines at ASIAD 2026 does not sit o...
Domestic FootballOne Minute for Ngoc Minh Chuyen: Vietnam Women's Football Between ASIAD 2026 and an Unformed TransitionIn the seventieth minute of the match against Thailand, I sat in front of the...
Domestic FootballGenerational Transition in Vietnam Women's Team: A Blueprint Moving Faster Than Its BuildersSitting in the France Bleu Paris studio on a late-August evening, I replayed...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses During Weight Cut at ASIAD 2026: The Scale Never Lies, But the System DoesThe scariest moment at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya did not happen...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong, 46 Points and the Biggest Block Test of Her LifeEleven in the morning on September 20. I was in the technical area before...
BadmintonIndia's Projected Path at the 2026 Asian Games: Two Pillars and a Fragile BracketWhen the final whistle echoed at the Hangzhou 2026 men's team badminton final...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong's 46 Points: Half a Truth Before the Doorstep of ChinaThe Qatar match ended in 49 minutes. That is the first number I wrote down in...
VolleyballPham Quynh Huong, 46 Points and the Missing Denominator Before China11 a.m., September 20. At multi-sport Games, that is the slot organisers...
VolleyballQuynh Huong's 46 points and the China trap: Why I do not dare to trust an ASIAD scoring leadWriting on an old laptop, I never imagined I was typing tests of fate. On the...
VolleyballASIAD 2026: Pham Quynh Huong and the Path to the Real TestSeptember 20, 11:00 AM. That is when Vietnam's women's volleyball team enters...
EsportsFaker Withdraws From Ralph Lauren Event on Health Grounds: ASIAD 2026 and Worlds 2026 Sit Inside the Same FortnightA name card placed in front of a chair that no one sits in. At commercial...
EsportsFaker's Wrist and the Two-Week Crossroads: When ASIAD 2026 Collides With Worlds 2026Ralph Lauren made an announcement midweek. Faker, T1's mid laner, would not...
EsportsWhat's Scarier Than Faker's Wrist Injury Is the August CalendarI once said on air that Korean esports fans are the most patient people I hav...
Domestic FootballCoach Dinh Hong Vinh and the Black Shirt: Minute 74 Exposes the Problem U23 Vietnam Has Not SolvedAt minute 74 of the match between U23 Vietnam and U23 Philippines in the men'...
Martial ArtsVietnam Taekwondo at Asiad 2026: Two Women's Weight Classes Carry the Entire Medal ExpectationMy personal tracking sheet on the Vietnam taekwondo team has a line circled i...
Martial ArtsThree Streams of Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Ring, The Stage and the Village YardAt 5:12 a.m. on January 6, 2026, in a gym tucked inside an alley off Nguyen...
Martial ArtsVietnam's Poomsae in Chuncheon: Three Golds and a Path Nobody ChoseIn Chuncheon, across three days of competition at the World Poomsae...
SwimmingThe Empty Data File and Where a Swimming Analyst Really StandsAt 6:47 in the morning, at a coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, I...
Domestic FootballVietnam U23 Lands in Nagoya: Asiad 2026, an Unclosed Squad and Three Matches That Wait for No OneAt 00:15 on September 13, there was no stand, no red scarf, no drumbeat at th...
Martial ArtsChuncheon and Six U50 Faces: Vietnam's Taekwondo Gold Hunt Rests on Synchrony, Not on Individual FeetChuncheon and Six U50 Faces: Vietnam's Taekwondo Gold Hunt Rests on Synchrony...
Martial ArtsVietnam Poomsae in Chuncheon: The Team-Medal Model and the Gap Behind ItIn 2026, after the world poomsae championships, I wrote three lines into my...
Domestic FootballVietnam women's football team ready to compete at Asiad 2026: In-depth analysis of preparation journey and advancement opportunitiesIn a press conference held in mid-September, Head Coach Hoang Van Phuc...
BadmintonNgo Dinh Nam: From the Burden of Expectations to the Moment of Brilliance at VICT Open 2026Sitting on the sofa in the player lounge, Ngo Dinh Nam lowered his head to lo...
