Athletics
A Medal Reassigned by a Shoe Licence: Rules, Times and an Incomplete Results Sheet at Nagoya's 42.195 km Race Walk
The Information Void and the Crisis of Sports Journalism: A Structural Review of Athletics Reporting
32:32.40: The Missing Stopwatch Inside Sindh's First Gold
Not the Stopwatch but the Calendar: The Date That Hangs Two Titles in Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case
Victory in 1:56.40, But How Much Faster Did Nike's Speed Suit Make Her? The Technology Debate Around Keely HodgkinsonThe first thing spectators noticed at StoneX Stadium in London was not the...
Urinary Leakage Changed Her Running Career, but Naomi Korir Refused to Leave AthleticsFor a Kenyan middle-distance runner, the hardest race does not always begin a...
NYC Marathon: The Uneven Structure Behind Almgren's Debut WinThe men's title came in 2:06:01, with Italy's Crippa just 13 seconds behind....
Assefa's Berlin Marathon World Record Miss: On Record Pace Through 35km, Collapse in Final 2kmThe streets of Berlin witnessed an unfinished calculation that day. When...
Puripol Boonson’s 9.91-Second Run Needs Wind Verification Before the Record ClaimWhen Puripol Boonson crossed the line at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the...
Centimetres of a Shoe: The Lesson for Bangladesh Athletics in an Asian Games Gold Medal AnnulmentThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
A Medal Reassigned by a Shoe Licence: Rules, Times and an Incomplete Results Sheet at Nagoya's 42.195 km Race WalkOn 27 September 2026 in Nagoya, the results sheet for the women's 42.195 km...
The Information Void and the Crisis of Sports Journalism: A Structural Review of Athletics ReportingEvery news report rests on a small set of basic elements: what happened, who...
32:32.40: The Missing Stopwatch Inside Sindh's First GoldKarachi, first morning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology...
In Jepchirchir's Case the Real Number Isn't 2:18:31 — It's a DateThe gap that opened on screen at the 41st kilometre of the Sydney Marathon wa...
Not the Stopwatch but the Calendar: The Date That Hangs Two Titles in Peres Jepchirchir's EPO CaseThe clock at the Sydney Marathon finish stopped at 2:18:31. Irene Chepet...
Gold Lost Overnight: How a Shoe Rule Put an Asian Games Champion on a First-of-Its-Kind ListThe microphone I held at Khulna District Stadium in 2026 was borrowed from a...
The Empty Pages of the Record Book: Seven Fields Nobody Filled In Bangladeshi AthleticsAt the 100m final of the last National Championships I stood beside the track...
The Empty Results Sheet: Where Athletics' Chain of Verification BreaksThe Empty Results Sheet: Where Athletics' Chain of Verification Breaks A...
A 01:30 Start, Three Bridges and 2:47:52: Auditing the VPBank Hanoi International Marathon 2026 ‘Record’ ClaimThe clock reads 01:30. On the steel deck of Hanoi’s Long Bien Bridge there is...
The Midway Blueprint: How Vietnam's Sports Leadership Is Turning Athletics from 'Forgotten Deficit' into 'Strategic Priority'On the evening of the 19th, it wasn't the closing ceremony but a brief press...
The Empty Cell: Bangladesh Athletics' Unfinished Ledger and the Autopsy of a Silent FailureLast night I was doing a specific job — digging out the old records of the...
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62 Metres: The Ledger With an Empty Wind ColumnThe Rome evening reached my desk in a single document: a sponsorship...
The 92.62m Claim and the Empty Verification Column: What the Ledger Says About Rumesh's Golden PromotionOne evening in Rome the javelin, the claim goes, stopped at 92.62 metres. The...
From Timing Chip to Blockchain — In Athletics, Whose Record Is It, and Who Holds the Proof?From Timing Chip to Blockchain — In Athletics, Whose Record Is It, and Who...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: Bangladeshi Athletics, Missing Data, and the Quiet Collapse of AnalysisLast week, at two in the morning, I had a sheet of paper on my desk in which...
The Wet Road of San Sebastián, 1:39:00, and a New Ledger EntryHook The coastal road in San Sebastián was wet that morning. The spectators...
Fifth Place Without a Time: Naomi Korir's Fistula, Kenya's Selection Door and an Unfinished LedgerThere is a spreadsheet on my desk. I call it the Deal Ledger — one row per...