Athletics
Eight Percent Inside the Cutoff: The Real Number in Vietnam's Tor des Géants Finish
Berlin Marathon: Assefa's 68 Seconds and the Ledger of a Clouded World Record
The Empty Cell Behind 9.91: Puripol Boonson's Record Has No Wind Reading
Two Seconds in Melbourne: Eliud Kipchoge's Course Record and a Ledger That Has Not Closed
The Mithu Line: The Blank Years in the Sprint Ledger Nobody Wants to Read
Nairobi 2029: History and Hard Reality Ahead of Africa’s First World Athletics ChampionshipsNairobi’s selection as host of the 2029 World Athletics Championships places ...
Chicago Marathon: The Track That Witnesses World Records, But Not All Records Are EqualThe 48th edition of the Chicago Marathon takes place on 11 October 2026. Seve...
The Empty Ledger: Auditing the Data Blackout in South Asian AthleticsThe document that landed on my desk that Monday morning had every field fille...
From a Blank Page to a Ledger: What Bangladesh's Sprinting Measures, and What It Does NotI went looking for a player and came back with a ledger instead. Mymensingh...
Mahnoor's gold, Sindh's first — but 32:32.40 tells the rest of the storyKARACHI, Pakistan — Sindh's name went straight to the top of the medal table ...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Real Question Is the Clock, Not the ChargeOn September 18, a provisional suspension was imposed on Cyrena Samba-Mayela....
NYC Marathon: The Wire Copy That Ran Before Its Arithmetic Was CheckedFor forty hours I went looking for the results sheet of a New York City...
The Ledger's Empty Cells: Five Decades of Bangladesh's Sprint PipelineIn 2026, at the National Athletics Championships, I walked into the meet offi...
Colombo Marathon 2026: A Revival Story Tested by RealityThe LSR Colombo Marathon 2026, organized by Lanka Sportreizen, is set for its...
Eight Percent Inside the Cutoff: The Real Number in Vietnam's Tor des Géants FinishIt was half past eleven at night at a tea stall beside Carmichael College in...
Eighty-Eight Seconds in the Last Two Kilometres: How to Read Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04A woman down on one knee on Berlin's blue asphalt. The clock reads 2:11:04. I...
Berlin Marathon: Assefa's 68 Seconds and the Ledger of a Clouded World RecordHook I stopped my pencil at the 40-kilometre checkpoint. In Berlin, Tigst...
The Empty Cell Behind 9.91: Puripol Boonson's Record Has No Wind ReadingWhen the digital board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91, no screen...
Peres Jepchirchir: After 2:18:31, the Question Belongs to the Calendar, Not the StopwatchThe second woman across the finish line at the Sydney Marathon was Irene Chep...
The Results Nobody Counts: Bangladesh Athletics and the Arithmetic of the Missing HalfI still remember the results sheet from the 2026 National Athletics...
The File That Came Back Empty: An Audit of Bangladesh Athletics' Measurement CrisisOn a September afternoon I sent a routine query to the desk. I asked for the...
Zero Payload, Not Zero Verdict: Nine Tiers of an Audit TrailThe file arrived on my desk labelled Stage-2 deep analysis. The tables were...
The 69th Place Is the Real Story: A 3 A.M. Marathon from Vinh to Cửa LòAt three in the morning on the streets of Vinh, the light that comes on is no...
Berlin's 68 Seconds: Assefa's Near-Record and an Unclosed LedgerForty kilometres in, the green line on Berlin's television feed was still bel...