Athletics
The Empty Column Beside 9.91: Boonson's 'Record' and the Missing Wind GaugeI opened a results page looking for a name and found a ledger instead....
The Track's Transfer Window: The Army-Navy-BKSP Axis Is Bangladesh Athletics' Only Real MarketLast December, a BKSP recruitment circular landed on my desk. A single page....
One Second Into History: Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich Sets Women-Only Half Marathon World Record in CopenhagenOne Second Into History: Agnes Ngetich Sets a New Women-Only Half Marathon...
Tigst Assefa Falls Just Short of World Record in Berlin Despite Personal Best of 2:11:04Tigst Assefa was running ahead of world-record pace through 35 kilometres of...
Puripol Boonson's Sprint Breakthrough and the Chen Yujie Debate: Testing Athletics Journalism Behind the Records</escape>The finish line at Nagoya's Mizuho Park Athletics Stadium offered a...
Cost-Cutting at the Asian Games: South Korea's Complaints Raise Questions Over Athlete Welfare and Organiser AccountabilityA shuttle bus failed to arrive just hours before South Korea's men's basketba...
Hawi Feysa and Amos Kipruto Triumph in Chicago Marathon: Scout's Deep Field AuditChicago afternoon. Hawi Feysa of Ethiopia stood with the women's crown...
Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record: The Hidden Truth Behind 2:09:10When Eliud Kipchoge crossed the 42.195-kilometre Melbourne Marathon finish li...
The Empty-Field Audit: The Column Nobody Filled in Bangladesh's Sprint Record BookThe file that arrived on my screen last week was structurally immaculate. Tit...
From Dhaka's Press Box to Imranur's Indoor Gold: The Ledger Bangladesh Athletics Never BalancesLast year, in the media gallery of the National Athletics Championships, I sa...
The 9.90 Mystery: How Boonson's Asian Games Record Became an MVP Without a Wind ReadingWhen Puripol Boonson crossed the 100m finish line at the Asian Games, the...
Coe sees progress in Kenya's anti-doping fight ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said Kenya's anti-doping fight is...
A Shoe Offence, A Medal Adjustment: Auditing the Nagoya Race-Walk ReallocationWhen I opened the results sheet for the 42.195 km race walk at Nagoya, the...
68 Seconds and a Record in Abeyance: What the Berlin Clock Says, and What It Doesn'tTwo numbers sit side by side in the official Berlin Marathon results. One is...
Inside Vietnam’s Marathon Boom at 2:41:55: Report from an Incomplete PyramidHook At three in the morning in Vinh, the 42km field leaves the line in...
The Stopwatch Mutiny: The Politics of Empty Data in Athletics AnalysisAt the 2026 National Athletics Championships, I sat in the stands of...
Zero Ledger, Nine Strata: An Incomplete Excavation of Bangladeshi AthleticsI opened the file at 2:47 a.m. Nine strata, every heading properly arranged:...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: Where Athletics Data Stops SpeakingThe file landed on my desk at about eleven on a Wednesday night. Nine section...
The 1:30 a.m. Bridges, the 2:47:52 Clock: Hanoi's Marathon Record Has Not Yet Measured Its Own DistanceAt 1:30 a.m. the first headlamp catches the steel deck of Hanoi's Long Bien...
One Second Inside 3,915: Agnes Ngetich and the Women-Only Half Marathon Record That Waited 2,164 DaysOne Second Inside 3,915 The clock in Copenhagen stopped at 1:05:15. The...
Kenya's Anti-Doping Fight Improving Ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe recently stated at a press conference...
92.62 Metres: The Record That Forgot to Name Its WindI watched that Rome evening slowly, frame by frame. The stadium sits close to...
The Testimony of an Empty Cell: Where the Stopwatch Is Silent, History Stays UnfinishedLast week a sheet arrived on my desk. Neatly laid out, every cell filled in —...
The Track's Transfer Window: The Army-Navy-BKSP Axis Is Bangladesh Athletics' Only Real MarketLast December, a BKSP recruitment circular landed on my desk. A single page....
One Second Into History: Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich Sets Women-Only Half Marathon World Record in CopenhagenOne Second Into History: Agnes Ngetich Sets a New Women-Only Half Marathon...
Tigst Assefa Falls Just Short of World Record in Berlin Despite Personal Best of 2:11:04Tigst Assefa was running ahead of world-record pace through 35 kilometres of...
Puripol Boonson's Sprint Breakthrough and the Chen Yujie Debate: Testing Athletics Journalism Behind the Records</escape>The finish line at Nagoya's Mizuho Park Athletics Stadium offered a...
Cost-Cutting at the Asian Games: South Korea's Complaints Raise Questions Over Athlete Welfare and Organiser AccountabilityA shuttle bus failed to arrive just hours before South Korea's men's basketba...
Hawi Feysa and Amos Kipruto Triumph in Chicago Marathon: Scout's Deep Field AuditChicago afternoon. Hawi Feysa of Ethiopia stood with the women's crown...
Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record: The Hidden Truth Behind 2:09:10When Eliud Kipchoge crossed the 42.195-kilometre Melbourne Marathon finish li...
The Empty-Field Audit: The Column Nobody Filled in Bangladesh's Sprint Record BookThe file that arrived on my screen last week was structurally immaculate. Tit...
From Dhaka's Press Box to Imranur's Indoor Gold: The Ledger Bangladesh Athletics Never BalancesLast year, in the media gallery of the National Athletics Championships, I sa...
The 9.90 Mystery: How Boonson's Asian Games Record Became an MVP Without a Wind ReadingWhen Puripol Boonson crossed the 100m finish line at the Asian Games, the...
Coe sees progress in Kenya's anti-doping fight ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said Kenya's anti-doping fight is...
A Shoe Offence, A Medal Adjustment: Auditing the Nagoya Race-Walk ReallocationWhen I opened the results sheet for the 42.195 km race walk at Nagoya, the...
68 Seconds and a Record in Abeyance: What the Berlin Clock Says, and What It Doesn'tTwo numbers sit side by side in the official Berlin Marathon results. One is...
Inside Vietnam’s Marathon Boom at 2:41:55: Report from an Incomplete PyramidHook At three in the morning in Vinh, the 42km field leaves the line in...
The Stopwatch Mutiny: The Politics of Empty Data in Athletics AnalysisAt the 2026 National Athletics Championships, I sat in the stands of...
Zero Ledger, Nine Strata: An Incomplete Excavation of Bangladeshi AthleticsI opened the file at 2:47 a.m. Nine strata, every heading properly arranged:...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: Where Athletics Data Stops SpeakingThe file landed on my desk at about eleven on a Wednesday night. Nine section...
The 1:30 a.m. Bridges, the 2:47:52 Clock: Hanoi's Marathon Record Has Not Yet Measured Its Own DistanceAt 1:30 a.m. the first headlamp catches the steel deck of Hanoi's Long Bien...
One Second Inside 3,915: Agnes Ngetich and the Women-Only Half Marathon Record That Waited 2,164 DaysOne Second Inside 3,915 The clock in Copenhagen stopped at 1:05:15. The...
Kenya's Anti-Doping Fight Improving Ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe recently stated at a press conference...
92.62 Metres: The Record That Forgot to Name Its WindI watched that Rome evening slowly, frame by frame. The stadium sits close to...
The Testimony of an Empty Cell: Where the Stopwatch Is Silent, History Stays UnfinishedLast week a sheet arrived on my desk. Neatly laid out, every cell filled in —...