Athletics
The 9.91 File: Boonson's Games Record, the Missing Wind Gauge, and ASIAD's Unclosed Ledger
Medals Without a Clock: The Incomplete Ledger of India's Athletics Return on Asian Games Day 6
The Empty Clock Column: Auditing India’s ‘Historic’ Day-6 Athletics at Aichi-Nagoya 2026
Medals Without Times: What Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Tells Us — and What It Buries
Three Lines on September 27: Vietnam's Athletics Card and the Load Written Into the Calendar
A Sport Decided in Hundredths, a Case Decided in Years: The Real Variable in the Samba-Mayela File
Three Lines on September 27: Vietnam's Athletics Card and the Load Written Into the CalendarFor four decades the habit has been the same: I read the schedule before I re...
A Sport Decided in Hundredths, a Case Decided in Years: The Real Variable in the Samba-Mayela FileParis, Stade de France, the women's 100m hurdles final. Three lanes, three...
The 9.91 Gap: Thailand's Record Stops One Cell ShortPuripol Boonson ran 9.95 seconds in the Asian Games qualifying round at...
The 9.91 File: Boonson's Games Record, the Missing Wind Gauge, and ASIAD's Unclosed LedgerAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium the board lit up with 9.91 beside lane four...
Medals Without a Clock: The Incomplete Ledger of India's Athletics Return on Asian Games Day 6The first thing a results sheet shows you is not a medal. It is the blank spa...
The Empty Clock Column: Auditing India’s ‘Historic’ Day-6 Athletics at Aichi-Nagoya 2026I opened the Day-6 results sheet to look at one column: the clock column. The...
4.15 metres, 17.17 metres and One Empty Column: What Indian Athletics Said on Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya, and What It Left UnsaidI have carried a habit into press tribunes for more than forty years: printed...
Three Hundredths of Silver and a One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Word Suspension: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Half Nobody CountsThree Hundredths of Silver and a One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Word Suspension Three...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Real Story Is Not a Banned Substance, It Is Calendar ArithmeticOn a Friday night, the lines I was reading on my phone contained no time at...
Medals Without Times: What Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Tells Us — and What It BuriesHook: The Empty Column The Day 6 results sheet arrived from Aichi-Nagoya, and...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: How a Sanction Date Rewrites an Olympic CalendarSeptember 18 is a date. No photo-finish sheet has a lane for that number; the...
9.91 Seconds: What Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Actually ProvesThe clock said 9.91, and that number turned the evening at Nagoya's Paloma...
The Empty Box Behind 9.91: Why the Bigger Question at the Asian Games 100m Isn't the RecordThe scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya read 9.91 on the semifinal...
A Sport Decided in Hundredths, a Case Decided in Years: The Real Variable in the Samba-Mayela FileParis, Stade de France, the women's 100m hurdles final. Three lanes, three...
The 9.91 Gap: Thailand's Record Stops One Cell ShortPuripol Boonson ran 9.95 seconds in the Asian Games qualifying round at...
The 9.91 File: Boonson's Games Record, the Missing Wind Gauge, and ASIAD's Unclosed LedgerAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium the board lit up with 9.91 beside lane four...
Medals Without a Clock: The Incomplete Ledger of India's Athletics Return on Asian Games Day 6The first thing a results sheet shows you is not a medal. It is the blank spa...
The Empty Clock Column: Auditing India’s ‘Historic’ Day-6 Athletics at Aichi-Nagoya 2026I opened the Day-6 results sheet to look at one column: the clock column. The...
4.15 metres, 17.17 metres and One Empty Column: What Indian Athletics Said on Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya, and What It Left UnsaidI have carried a habit into press tribunes for more than forty years: printed...
Three Hundredths of Silver and a One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Word Suspension: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Half Nobody CountsThree Hundredths of Silver and a One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Word Suspension Three...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Real Story Is Not a Banned Substance, It Is Calendar ArithmeticOn a Friday night, the lines I was reading on my phone contained no time at...
Medals Without Times: What Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Tells Us — and What It BuriesHook: The Empty Column The Day 6 results sheet arrived from Aichi-Nagoya, and...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: How a Sanction Date Rewrites an Olympic CalendarSeptember 18 is a date. No photo-finish sheet has a lane for that number; the...
9.91 Seconds: What Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Actually ProvesThe clock said 9.91, and that number turned the evening at Nagoya's Paloma...
The Empty Box Behind 9.91: Why the Bigger Question at the Asian Games 100m Isn't the RecordThe scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya read 9.91 on the semifinal...