Athletics
Nagoya 2026: 11.06 Seconds and 70.46 Metres — Two Records, Two Different Questions
The Empty Ledger: One Generation's Silent Exit From Bangladesh Athletics
ASIAD Gold Stripped Amid Shoe-Sole Controversy: Host Japan Benefits with Bronze
She Woke Up to Learn Her Asian Games Gold Was Gone: The Full Anatomy of Athletics' First Equipment-Based Medal Strip
From North to South of Greece: Giorgos Tsianos' AMPHIBIAN Expedition
Inside 140 Sanctions, the Trend That Isn't There: Kenya's Doping Ledger and the 2029 Bet
Nagoya's 42.195 km: How a Shoe's Paperwork Changed the Owner of a GoldSeptember 27, 2026. Nagoya. The clock in the women's 42.195 km race walk...
Agnes Ngetich Wins in Copenhagen and Lowers Women-Only Half Marathon Record by One SecondAgnes Ngetich moved to the front from the start on a sunny morning in...
Chicago's Eight Metres: A Course Flatter Than Berlin, and a Record Ledger Still IncompleteIt was 2:40 in the morning at a desk in Dhaka. On screen, the women's finish ...
Nagoya 2026: 11.06 Seconds and 70.46 Metres — Two Records, Two Different QuestionsOn the javelin field in Nagoya, the first attempt was the whole story. An...
The Empty Cells in the Record Book: Bangladesh Athletics' Crisis of AccountingOctober 2026. Bangabandhu National Stadium. I was holding the meet programme ...
The Data Gap in Sports Analysis: Why Source Verification Must Come FirstA false statistic can damage a sports report more than a mistaken match...
Feysa Retains Chicago Marathon Crown as Kipruto Seizes Revenge; Wheelchair World Record FallsChicago Marathon 2026 delivered two very different elite races. In the women’...
Twenty Years of a Marathon and Still Not One Split TimeThe press release for the 20th LSR Colombo Marathon landed on my desk last...
Vietnamese Athletics Faces a Star Drought: Why Has the Next Generation Stalled Since the Golden Era of 2026?Vietnamese athletics reached an important continental level at the 2026 Jakar...
The File Nobody Wrote Before the Hamstring ToreSixty metres into the anchor leg in London, Bolt pulled up. Jamaica never...
The Empty Ledger: One Generation's Silent Exit From Bangladesh AthleticsIn December 2026 I asked a simple question at the meet office of the National...
Fistula, Quiet Struggle and the Track: The Journey of Naomi KorirThe story of Kenyan middle-distance athlete Naomi Korir is a complex report...
ASIAD Gold Stripped Amid Shoe-Sole Controversy: Host Japan Benefits with BronzeThe Rangpur audit began when the clock disagreed with the crowd. In June 2026...
A Three-Million-Pound Ledger and the One-Thousand-Euro Reality: Auditing the 2028 European Athletics Championships Prize FundAfter the 2026 Birmingham European Athletics Championships closed, one number...
She Woke Up to Learn Her Asian Games Gold Was Gone: The Full Anatomy of Athletics' First Equipment-Based Medal StripThe Morning That Rewrote a Career There are few stories in sport as jarring a...
From North to South of Greece: Giorgos Tsianos' AMPHIBIAN ExpeditionFrom the northernmost tip of Greece to the southernmost, an unprecedented...
New York City Marathon: Seven Paragraphs for 2:06:01, Four for 2:24:36I do not watch the leader during a marathon. I watch the split sheet. In 2026...
The Empty Result Sheet: Where South Asian Athletics Cannot Measure Itself Without Split TimesThe PDF was called something plain—final_results. Three columns: place, name,...
Fistula, Fifth Place and an Incomplete Results SheetThe results sheet has a blank where the time should be. A fifth place in the...
Sixth, Fifth, Last — But the Measurement Column Is BlankThe results sheet arrives on a phone screen in three lines. Sixth in the...
Inside 140 Sanctions, the Trend That Isn't There: Kenya's Doping Ledger and the 2029 BetOctober 14, Nairobi. Sebastian Coe at the microphone, a question about Kenya'...
From 92.97 to 80.29: Arshad Nadeem's Decline Is Not the Story — the Ledger Says Something Else92.97 metres. 81.49 metres. 80.29 metres. Three numbers, one athlete, three...
11.43 Seconds and an Empty Box: Without a Wind Reading, a Heat Time Is Not a PerformanceHook A heat result sheet has three boxes to fill: time, place, wind. At Nagoy...