Athletics
AthleticsAn Empty Analysis Cannot Produce an Athletics Report2026-11-11There is no time in the result sheet, no event and no athlete’s name. You...
AthleticsThe Record Hiding Outside the Rankings: Time, Gender and Advantage in Bangladeshi Athletics2026-11-03The women's 100m final at the 2026 National Athletics Championships had twelv...
AthleticsAsiad 20 Diary, September 24: The Weight of Expectation on Nguyễn Thị Oanh2026-10-31On the fifth day of athletics at Asiad 20, Vietnamese attention converges on ...
AthleticsChicago Marathon 2026: 2:01:09 and 2:13:33 — Two Different Races on the Same Day2026-10-17Nobody was with Amos Kipruto over the last two kilometres. On Chicago's flat...
AthleticsRumesh Tharanga Pathirage: The 92.62m Story, But What Does the Stopwatch Say?2026-10-1492.62 meters in Rome. The stopwatch has stopped, but where is the data behind...
An Empty Analysis Cannot Produce an Athletics ReportThere is no time in the result sheet, no event and no athlete’s name. You...
Vietnam's Star Drought: The 2026 Golden Generation Is Over, and the Pipeline Is Empty Until 2030I went looking for the final nobody streamed, and found the future — on the...
From Ormenio to Gavdos: The Twelve Days That Turn a Human Body Into a Field LaboratoryFrom Ormenio to Gavdos: The Twelve Days That Turn a Human Body Into a Field...
Tor des Géants 330km: Two Vietnamese Runners, 138 Hours, and an 8 Percent Margin to the CutoffFor the last twelve hours those two GPS dots barely moved. I had the laptop...
Mahnoor's Gold Gives Sindh a Lift, but Pakistan's Race Walking Pipeline Faces Bigger QuestionsMahnoor's gold and the reality of Pakistani race walking A time of 32 minutes...
1:39:00 — The Number the Clock Remembered, and the Fame the Clock ForgotWet streets in San Sebastián. Spectators under umbrellas. At the finish line,...
Nairobi 2029: Kenya's Doping War Ledger and Sebastian Coe's Unfinished Balance SheetIn a conference room in Nairobi, when Sebastian Coe said Kenya was 'making...
The Record Hiding Outside the Rankings: Time, Gender and Advantage in Bangladeshi AthleticsThe women's 100m final at the 2026 National Athletics Championships had twelv...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 24: The Weight of Expectation on Nguyễn Thị OanhOn the fifth day of athletics at Asiad 20, Vietnamese attention converges on ...
The Empty Column: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics When the Data Never ArrivesThe sheet comes out of the printer and my eye goes straight to the right-hand...
The Record Book That Never Measured the Wind: Empty Data Sheets and the Politics of Measurement in Bangladeshi AthleticsNational Athletics Championships, 2026. The track in Dhaka. The call went out...
The Record Nobody Kept: A Null Report, 10.29 Seconds, and the Limits of the LedgerMonday morning I opened a file on my desk. Nine chapters, nine tables, each...
Empty Blocks, Hard Truths: The Limits of Blockchain Provenance in Athletics RecordsEleven at night in Liverpool. One lamp on the desk, one file open on the...
The 9.91 Seconds, and the Number the Scoreboard Never ShowedI was watching from Barishal, on a laptop screen. When the board at Paloma...
How Much of a Record Is Hanoi's 'Race Record'? Auditing 2:47:52 and 2:31:49The first wave in Hanoi goes off at 01:30. Pham Thi Hong Le crosses the women...
Two Millimetres of Sole: The Asian Games Medal That Was Decided in the Technical RoomYasmina Toksanbaeva went down on her knees just past the finish line. After...
Vietnam's Star Drought: The 2026 Golden Generation Is Over, and the Pipeline Is Empty Until 2030I went looking for the final nobody streamed, and found the future — on the...
From Ormenio to Gavdos: The Twelve Days That Turn a Human Body Into a Field LaboratoryFrom Ormenio to Gavdos: The Twelve Days That Turn a Human Body Into a Field...
Tor des Géants 330km: Two Vietnamese Runners, 138 Hours, and an 8 Percent Margin to the CutoffFor the last twelve hours those two GPS dots barely moved. I had the laptop...
Mahnoor's Gold Gives Sindh a Lift, but Pakistan's Race Walking Pipeline Faces Bigger QuestionsMahnoor's gold and the reality of Pakistani race walking A time of 32 minutes...
1:39:00 — The Number the Clock Remembered, and the Fame the Clock ForgotWet streets in San Sebastián. Spectators under umbrellas. At the finish line,...
Nairobi 2029: Kenya's Doping War Ledger and Sebastian Coe's Unfinished Balance SheetIn a conference room in Nairobi, when Sebastian Coe said Kenya was 'making...
The Record Hiding Outside the Rankings: Time, Gender and Advantage in Bangladeshi AthleticsThe women's 100m final at the 2026 National Athletics Championships had twelv...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 24: The Weight of Expectation on Nguyễn Thị OanhOn the fifth day of athletics at Asiad 20, Vietnamese attention converges on ...
The Empty Column: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics When the Data Never ArrivesThe sheet comes out of the printer and my eye goes straight to the right-hand...
The Record Book That Never Measured the Wind: Empty Data Sheets and the Politics of Measurement in Bangladeshi AthleticsNational Athletics Championships, 2026. The track in Dhaka. The call went out...
The Record Nobody Kept: A Null Report, 10.29 Seconds, and the Limits of the LedgerMonday morning I opened a file on my desk. Nine chapters, nine tables, each...
Empty Blocks, Hard Truths: The Limits of Blockchain Provenance in Athletics RecordsEleven at night in Liverpool. One lamp on the desk, one file open on the...
The 9.91 Seconds, and the Number the Scoreboard Never ShowedI was watching from Barishal, on a laptop screen. When the board at Paloma...
How Much of a Record Is Hanoi's 'Race Record'? Auditing 2:47:52 and 2:31:49The first wave in Hanoi goes off at 01:30. Pham Thi Hong Le crosses the women...
Two Millimetres of Sole: The Asian Games Medal That Was Decided in the Technical RoomYasmina Toksanbaeva went down on her knees just past the finish line. After...