Athletics
Whereabouts breach: Olympic silver medallist hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela handed provisional suspension, two-year ban looms
The Report Has a Time but No Date: A Forensic Reading of the New York City Marathon Wire Copy
European Athletics Championships 2028: Record £3m Prize Fund, and a Complete Overhaul of the Distribution Model
The Clock After 92.97: The Ledger Nobody Is Reconciling on Arshad Nadeem
Feysa Retains Chicago Marathon Crown as Kipruto Announces His Return in 2:01:09Hook: When Amos Kipruto came through the final turn alone, the Chicago Marath...
The Sport With No Transfer Window: Where Athletics' Market Actually FreezesI still have the men's 100m results sheet from the last few national senior...
ASIAD Medal Stripping: Host Nation Gains Bronze, But Procedural Questions RemainASIAD Medal Stripping: Host Nation Gains Bronze, But Procedural Questions...
Vietnam Athletics at the Asian Games: Finals Reached, Medals Missing, and the Disappearance of a Silver FrameIn late September, on an Olympic-standard track in Japan, Vietnam's athletics...
Whereabouts breach: Olympic silver medallist hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela handed provisional suspension, two-year ban loomsA turbulent new chapter has opened in the career of French hurdler Cyrena...
The Report Has a Time but No Date: A Forensic Reading of the New York City Marathon Wire Copy2:06:01. Five digits, two colons. Four months of load curve, more than twenty...
European Athletics Championships 2028: Record £3m Prize Fund, and a Complete Overhaul of the Distribution ModelEuropean Athletics has announced a record prize fund of about £3 million...
32:32.40: Behind Sindh's Gold, Pakistan's Race Walking Depth Crisis32 minutes 32.40 seconds. When Mahnoor Fatima's lung-busting time flashed on...
The Clock After 92.97: The Ledger Nobody Is Reconciling on Arshad NadeemIn Karachi, at the 54th National Athletics Championships, the name was on the...
Chicago Marathon: The Record Factory and Its Two ClocksSeven world records sit stacked in the Chicago Marathon record book. I was...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Case Where the Paper, Not the Substance, Delivered the SentenceThere is a line in the results sheet whose fate is now settled. In March, Rut...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: The Sentence Is About the Paperwork, Not the DopingThere is an old habit at my desk: before I write a result, I look at the...
The Empty Cells: Records, Budget Lines and One 10.29 Second in Bangladesh AthleticsThe results sheet from the last National Championships is still sitting on my...
The Report With No Numbers: Athletics Data Integrity, the Ledger of Verification, and the Testimony of an Empty FileForty-eight hours ago a file landed on my Chattogram desk. Sixteen fields,...
The Report With No Names: Athletics' Data Spine and the Lesson of an Empty LedgerLast season, at a divisional athletics meet in Chattogram, I sat in the third...
Testimony of the Empty Cell: The Sprint Numbers Bangladesh Never Wrote DownIn October 2026, I stood in the call room at the 40th National Athletics...
The 3:14.54 Bronze: Vietnam's Mixed Relay Hangs on 0.08 SecondsAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the board at the 1200m exchange read...
A Bridge at 1:30 AM, a Record of 2:47:52: The 38 Minutes Between Hanoi's Marathon and the WorldAt 1:30 in the morning the first wave stepped onto the steel deck of Long Bie...
Hanoi's 2:47:52 — Three Bridges, a Soft Record, and the Audit of the ClockThe clock read 01:30. The first wave stood on the deck of Hanoi's Long Bien...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships Still Has No Paper TrailIn June 2026, at a school meet at Rangpur Stadium, I clocked 42 under-16 boys...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's 140: The Progress That Has Not Reached the Wire YetIn a hall in Nairobi on October 14, Sebastian Coe told reporters that Kenya's...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's 140: The Ledger of an Anti-Doping FightI first heard the stopwatch mutiny in the silence of an empty stadium. In 202...
Blockchain Technology and Athletics Data: A New Horizon of Transparency and VerificationBlockchain technology is no longer confined to cryptocurrency alone; it has...
Chicago Marathon: A Stage of Seven World Records, and the Unfinished Trial of OneChicago Marathon: A Stage of Seven World Records, and the Unfinished Trial of...
The Sport With No Transfer Window: Where Athletics' Market Actually FreezesI still have the men's 100m results sheet from the last few national senior...
ASIAD Medal Stripping: Host Nation Gains Bronze, But Procedural Questions RemainASIAD Medal Stripping: Host Nation Gains Bronze, But Procedural Questions...
Vietnam Athletics at the Asian Games: Finals Reached, Medals Missing, and the Disappearance of a Silver FrameIn late September, on an Olympic-standard track in Japan, Vietnam's athletics...
Whereabouts breach: Olympic silver medallist hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela handed provisional suspension, two-year ban loomsA turbulent new chapter has opened in the career of French hurdler Cyrena...
The Report Has a Time but No Date: A Forensic Reading of the New York City Marathon Wire Copy2:06:01. Five digits, two colons. Four months of load curve, more than twenty...
European Athletics Championships 2028: Record £3m Prize Fund, and a Complete Overhaul of the Distribution ModelEuropean Athletics has announced a record prize fund of about £3 million...
32:32.40: Behind Sindh's Gold, Pakistan's Race Walking Depth Crisis32 minutes 32.40 seconds. When Mahnoor Fatima's lung-busting time flashed on...
The Clock After 92.97: The Ledger Nobody Is Reconciling on Arshad NadeemIn Karachi, at the 54th National Athletics Championships, the name was on the...
Chicago Marathon: The Record Factory and Its Two ClocksSeven world records sit stacked in the Chicago Marathon record book. I was...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Case Where the Paper, Not the Substance, Delivered the SentenceThere is a line in the results sheet whose fate is now settled. In March, Rut...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: The Sentence Is About the Paperwork, Not the DopingThere is an old habit at my desk: before I write a result, I look at the...
The Empty Cells: Records, Budget Lines and One 10.29 Second in Bangladesh AthleticsThe results sheet from the last National Championships is still sitting on my...
The Report With No Numbers: Athletics Data Integrity, the Ledger of Verification, and the Testimony of an Empty FileForty-eight hours ago a file landed on my Chattogram desk. Sixteen fields,...
The Report With No Names: Athletics' Data Spine and the Lesson of an Empty LedgerLast season, at a divisional athletics meet in Chattogram, I sat in the third...
Testimony of the Empty Cell: The Sprint Numbers Bangladesh Never Wrote DownIn October 2026, I stood in the call room at the 40th National Athletics...
The 3:14.54 Bronze: Vietnam's Mixed Relay Hangs on 0.08 SecondsAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the board at the 1200m exchange read...
A Bridge at 1:30 AM, a Record of 2:47:52: The 38 Minutes Between Hanoi's Marathon and the WorldAt 1:30 in the morning the first wave stepped onto the steel deck of Long Bie...
Hanoi's 2:47:52 — Three Bridges, a Soft Record, and the Audit of the ClockThe clock read 01:30. The first wave stood on the deck of Hanoi's Long Bien...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships Still Has No Paper TrailIn June 2026, at a school meet at Rangpur Stadium, I clocked 42 under-16 boys...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's 140: The Progress That Has Not Reached the Wire YetIn a hall in Nairobi on October 14, Sebastian Coe told reporters that Kenya's...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's 140: The Ledger of an Anti-Doping FightI first heard the stopwatch mutiny in the silence of an empty stadium. In 202...
Blockchain Technology and Athletics Data: A New Horizon of Transparency and VerificationBlockchain technology is no longer confined to cryptocurrency alone; it has...
Chicago Marathon: A Stage of Seven World Records, and the Unfinished Trial of OneChicago Marathon: A Stage of Seven World Records, and the Unfinished Trial of...