Athletics
The Empty Room: The Analysis That Returned Nothing, and Bangladesh Athletics' Missing Archive2026-11-08I opened the document at seven in the morning at my Chicago desk. Twenty-seve...
Empty Columns, Full Stadiums: The Unwritten Results Ledger of Bangladeshi Athletics2026-11-06Last week a file came back to my desk. No times inside, no wind readings, no...
2:09:10 at 41 — Kipchoge's 'Record' Is Not the Record, But the Reading of It2026-11-05Entering the stadium at the end of the Melbourne Marathon's 42 kilometres,...
From Ormenio to Gavdos — Five Sports, 13 Regions, 12 Days: The Expedition Where the Human Body Becomes the Laboratory2026-11-04Ormenio. The northernmost settlement in Greece, in the Evros regional unit,...
11.06 and 70.46: The Two Faces of China's Youth Surge at Nagoya 20262026-11-04The javelin Yan Ziyi released on her first attempt in Nagoya landed 70.46...
Two Hours, Fifty Minutes, Forty-One Seconds: A Record for the Road, Not for the Nation2026-11-01On the morning of 4 October, as the last runners came down the slope of Hanoi...
AthleticsIndia's Athletics Medals at the Asian Games: Success Amid Missing Times and DataThe final 400 metres can change the meaning of a 10,000-metre race. The accou...
AthleticsThe Record With No Number: Diyagama's Corporate Meet and the Pulse of Our Empty LanesFour names, four "meet records" — and zero marks. Kandhasami Sham (men's...
AthleticsNYC Marathon: Why the Year Box Beside 2:06:01 Is EmptyAt the finish line the board read 2:06:01. Andreas Almgren had just won the...
AthleticsThe Empty Room: The Analysis That Returned Nothing, and Bangladesh Athletics' Missing ArchiveI opened the document at seven in the morning at my Chicago desk. Twenty-seve...
AthleticsArshad Nadeem’s Route Back: Modern Training, Injury Management and a Politics-Free PreparationHook: The distance that remained after 92.97 metres When Arshad Nadeem threw...
AthleticsEmpty Columns, Full Stadiums: The Unwritten Results Ledger of Bangladeshi AthleticsLast week a file came back to my desk. No times inside, no wind readings, no...
Athletics138 Hours in the Alps: Vietnamese Runners Reach a New Ultra-Trail MilestoneTwo Vietnamese runners, Luu Duc Toan and Le Thi Hang, completed the...
Athletics2:09:10 at 41 — Kipchoge's 'Record' Is Not the Record, But the Reading of ItEntering the stadium at the end of the Melbourne Marathon's 42 kilometres,...
AthleticsHow Can CDB's 'Meet Records' and 'Fourth Place Overall' Coexist on the Corporate Athletics Stage?August 21–23, 2026. The 41st Mercantile Athletic Federation (MAF) Meet at...
AthleticsWho Wrote the 9.90 Story? The Impossible Numbers Behind the Puripol-Chen RomanceThe 'cross-border romance' story linking Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson and...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan's Retirement: The Ledger That Needs Auditing After Vietnam's Relay Cornerstone DepartsI wrote the number down first: 3:14.54. This is the only hard time mark from...
AthleticsFrom Ormenio to Gavdos — Five Sports, 13 Regions, 12 Days: The Expedition Where the Human Body Becomes the LaboratoryOrmenio. The northernmost settlement in Greece, in the Evros regional unit,...
Athletics11.06 and 70.46: The Two Faces of China's Youth Surge at Nagoya 2026The javelin Yan Ziyi released on her first attempt in Nagoya landed 70.46...
AthleticsThe Testimony of an Empty Spreadsheet: Where Bangladesh's Sprint Heritage Was LostThe assignment began with an empty JSON. Fourteen fields, thirteen of them...
AthleticsNYC Marathon: Almgren's Debut Win, Yet Reporting Reliability Under QuestionSweden's Almgren won the men's race at the New York City Marathon on his very...
AthleticsEmpty Files, Missing Names: What Never Gets Recovered in Bangladesh Athletics ReportingThe microphone at Khulna District Stadium that afternoon in 2026 was...
AthleticsTwo Hours, Fifty Minutes, Forty-One Seconds: A Record for the Road, Not for the NationOn the morning of 4 October, as the last runners came down the slope of Hanoi...
AthleticsNagoya's 42.195 Kilometres: One Gold, One Annulled Time, and a New Wall Built by a Shoe RuleSeptember 27, 2026, Nagoya. Forty minutes after winning gold, Yasmina...
AthleticsEuropean Athletics Championships to Offer Record £3m Prize Fund in 2028, Rewriting the Payout StructureFor the first time in its history, the European Athletics Championships will...
AthleticsBerlin Marathon: Assefa's Near-Miss and a World Record Under Doping's ShadowTigst Assefa crossed the Berlin Marathon finish line in 2 hours, 11 minutes a...
AthleticsTwelve Hours Above the Guillotine: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants FinishersThere is always a printed sheet on my desk. The habit goes back to 2026, to t...
AthleticsColombo's 20th Marathon: A Thousand Runners and the Shadow of 8,500October 4, 2026. On the Colombo start line, well before first light, the soun...
AthleticsVietnam’s Marathon Boom Has a Depth Problem: The 69th-Place Ledger Behind 2:41:55At 3am on the coastal road from Vinh to Cửa Lò, the 42-kilometre race begins....
Athletics3:22:20, One Shoe, and a Gold: Auditing an Annulled Asian Games ResultMy ledger has a column called “provisional.” The women’s race walk at the Asi...
Athletics33 Countries, 1,000 Runners, Zero Finish Times: The Real Arithmetic of the Colombo Marathon's 20th EditionThe press release for the LSR Colombo Marathon's 20th edition, scheduled for ...