Athletics
Berlin Marathon: On World-Record Pace for 35km, 88 Seconds Lost in the Last Two — What Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04 Really Says
The Empty Wind Column: A Record That Has Not Entered the Books Yet
Asian Games 2026: The Missing Data Beneath the Medals Is the Real Story
One Day, Four Medals, Zero Clocks: What the Asian Games Athletics Report Never Timed
AthleticsBerlin Marathon: On World-Record Pace for 35km, 88 Seconds Lost in the Last Two — What Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04 Really SaysHook: Where the Stopwatch Became a Witness Thirty-five kilometres. The clock...
AthleticsThe Gap in the Timetable: Vietnam's Three Athletics Lines at the Asian Games, and What Isn't WrittenI went looking for a player and found a ledger instead. Last night I opened a...
AthleticsThe Verdict Written Off the Track: Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Gaps in the FileSeptember 18. On paper that is the only fixed date. Everything else is blank....
AthleticsThe September 18 Ledger: Samba-Mayela's Hurdles Clock, the Whereabouts Arithmetic, and the Empty-Track FileTen barriers sit on a hurdles track, and between every pair there are exactly...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Whereabouts Ledger, a Two-Year Risk and the Invisible Arithmetic of the 100m HurdlesAt the Stade de France in the Paris 2026 Olympic final, the women's 100m...
AthleticsMedals Without Times, History Without Metres: The Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day SixI opened the Day Six results sheet and looked for the time before I looked fo...
AthleticsThe Empty Wind Column: A Record That Has Not Entered the Books YetThe stadium scoreboard lit up with 9.91 and the headline followed within...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Date of September 18, the Shadow of Two Years, and a Clock That Waits for No OneTwo things always lie open on my table in Khulna — a laptop and a box of card...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026: The Missing Data Beneath the Medals Is the Real StoryThe Day 6 results sheet at the 2026 Asian Games lists four Indian athletics...
AthleticsThe Missing Time: India's Day 6 Athletics Medals at the 2026 Asian GamesGulveer Singh ran the final 400 metres of the men's 10,000m "extremely well."...
AthleticsOne Day, Four Medals, Zero Clocks: What the Asian Games Athletics Report Never TimedWhere the Clock Was Not The Rangpur audit began when the clock disagreed with...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Witness: A Record Still Incomplete in the Ledger Until the Wind SpeaksHook: The Number That Has Not Yet Proved Its Own Identity The scoreboard at...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: The Number Missing from the Whereabouts SheetTwo sheets of paper sit side by side on my desk. One is the result sheet from...
AthleticsThe September 18 Clock: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and an Absence Measured in SplitsA clock started on September 18. There was no starting pistol, no timing gate...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Silent September: In a Whereabouts Case, the Paperwork Is the Real Opponent1. Hook: Three Hundredths at the Podium, One Date in September On the night o...
Athletics9.91 Seconds, One Empty Box, and Asia's Sprint LedgerNagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, semifinal one of the men's 100 metres. The...
AthleticsHistoric Was Written, the Time Was Not: India's Athletics on Day Six of the 2026 Asian GamesThe Day Six athletics sheet from the Aichi-Nagoya stadium landed on my screen...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026 Day 6: India's Athletics Breadth, and the Clocks Nobody PrintedIt was three-thirty in the morning in Chattogram when I opened the laptop. Th...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Gap Between Whereabouts and Doping That Paperwork Never ShowsThe eighteenth of September is in the file. The room is not. Cyrena...
AthleticsThailand's 9.91 and the Empty Column in My LedgerIn December 2026, when 9.94 flashed on the timing board at the SEA Games 100 ...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: A Two-Year Headline and Three Missing NumbersThe Paris 2026 Olympic 100m hurdles final was decided at the top by...