Aishwarya Kumar
@kumaraishwarya.bsky.social
Feature writer at ESPN | The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2024 | Volleyball, tennis, chess, track and field and other Olympic sports | Immigrant and Tamil |
Thank you so much!
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thank you so much!
Spent five months this year understanding what it costs to become the best at your sport.
The result: Love and volleyball — the golden but lonely road of Jordan Larson (This will always be a really special one).
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The result: Love and volleyball — the golden but lonely road of Jordan Larson (This will always be a really special one).
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
Love and Volleyball: The golden but lonely road of Jordan Larson
As gold medalist Jordan Larson endured the death of her mom and the end of two marriages, volleyball was her constant. So what happens after her final Olympics?
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November 19, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Spent five months this year understanding what it costs to become the best at your sport.
The result: Love and volleyball — the golden but lonely road of Jordan Larson (This will always be a really special one).
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
The result: Love and volleyball — the golden but lonely road of Jordan Larson (This will always be a really special one).
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
Thank you so so much!
November 19, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Thank you so so much!
Last year, I spent months with Harold Miner, a former NBA star who retired from the sport at 25 & disappeared from the public eye. I wanted to understand what sport took from him & what it gave them both. The resulting 6K-word story made The Year's Best Sports Writing.
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The prodigy and the protégé: The pain of 'Baby Jordan' and the power of Kami Miner
Harold Miner spent years agonizing over his unrealized NBA dreams. When his young daughter started doing 30-inch box jumps, he became her guide, and she became his healer. Now, Kami Miner looks to lea...
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November 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Last year, I spent months with Harold Miner, a former NBA star who retired from the sport at 25 & disappeared from the public eye. I wanted to understand what sport took from him & what it gave them both. The resulting 6K-word story made The Year's Best Sports Writing.
www.espn.com/college-spor...
www.espn.com/college-spor...
Remember the viral chess cheating scandal in 2022? Never did I think I'd use the words "anal beads" in an ESPN feature.
If you somehow missed it, I went to St. Louis and wrote about it: www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
If you somehow missed it, I went to St. Louis and wrote about it: www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Inside the chess cheating scandal and the fight for the soul of the game
The Hans Niemann-Magnus Carlsen feud sheds light on the growing crisis that artifcial intelligence poses to chess -- and puts the future of the game in doubt.
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November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Remember the viral chess cheating scandal in 2022? Never did I think I'd use the words "anal beads" in an ESPN feature.
If you somehow missed it, I went to St. Louis and wrote about it: www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
If you somehow missed it, I went to St. Louis and wrote about it: www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Spent two days in Brooklyn with the inimitable Chanel Miller and profiled her for ESPN
From survivor to activist, Chanel Miller is taking toxic sports culture to task
www.espn.com/espnw/story/...
From survivor to activist, Chanel Miller is taking toxic sports culture to task
www.espn.com/espnw/story/...
Why Chanel Miller's voice is so important in combating toxic sports culture
From anonymous to activist, the survivor of sexual assault by a Stanford swimmer says she'll continue to raise her voice.
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November 18, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Spent two days in Brooklyn with the inimitable Chanel Miller and profiled her for ESPN
From survivor to activist, Chanel Miller is taking toxic sports culture to task
www.espn.com/espnw/story/...
From survivor to activist, Chanel Miller is taking toxic sports culture to task
www.espn.com/espnw/story/...
Worked on this investigative piece with the legendary Paula Lavigne, from whom I learned so much. This one took many sleepless nights:
Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then her life changed forever.
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Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then her life changed forever.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then, her life changed forever
For three years, elite distance runner Emily Infeld lived in fear of a stalker. This is the story of how the prime years of her career were interrupted -- and what happened to the man who threatened h...
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November 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Worked on this investigative piece with the legendary Paula Lavigne, from whom I learned so much. This one took many sleepless nights:
Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then her life changed forever.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then her life changed forever.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
A few pieces I've written over the years if you're curious:
Back in 2018, I found out that grandmasters lost 10-20 pounds in one tournament. This story is singular, it's shocking & it's evergreen. For a long time I thought I couldn't do better than this story.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Back in 2018, I found out that grandmasters lost 10-20 pounds in one tournament. This story is singular, it's shocking & it's evergreen. For a long time I thought I couldn't do better than this story.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic...
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November 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
A few pieces I've written over the years if you're curious:
Back in 2018, I found out that grandmasters lost 10-20 pounds in one tournament. This story is singular, it's shocking & it's evergreen. For a long time I thought I couldn't do better than this story.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Back in 2018, I found out that grandmasters lost 10-20 pounds in one tournament. This story is singular, it's shocking & it's evergreen. For a long time I thought I couldn't do better than this story.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...