Athletics
AthleticsA One-Second Record and a Two-Minute-24 Truth2026-10-09The clock stopped at 1:05:15 in Copenhagen. The number sitting beside Peres...
AthleticsFour Minutes, One Night, One Annulment: Where the Real Arithmetic of a Stripped Asian Games Gold Sits2026-09-29On a late-September evening in Japan, a woman walked 42.195 kilometres faster...
Athletics11.43 and One Empty Box: Shanti Pereira's Asian Games Semi-Final, and the Numbers Nobody Filed2026-09-2511.43 Seconds, and One Empty Box Next to It The time is 11.43 seconds. Second...
AthleticsAsiad 20, September 24: Nguyen Thi Oanh's 'Gold Expectation' and the Number Nobody Wrote on the Start List2026-09-24At 7:25 in the evening the track will hold 25 laps. The 10,000m is an event...
AthleticsTwo Faces of the Chicago Marathon: A Final-Mile Sprint, a Solitary Break, and the Name Missing From the Podium2026-10-12October 11, 2026. On Chicago's flat course, I rewound the final mile of the...
Two Faces of the Chicago Marathon: A Final-Mile Sprint, a Solitary Break, and the Name Missing From the PodiumOctober 11, 2026. On Chicago's flat course, I rewound the final mile of the...
The Uncounted Half of Chicago: Feysa's Crown, Kipruto's Revenge, and an Unwritten World RecordSeven in the evening, Barishal. I opened the results sheet of the Bank of...
The Ledger Nobody Posted To: An Audit of an Empty Results SheetOn Friday morning I opened a file at my Chattogram desk. I called it the...
Empty Input, Zero Evidence: Why Athletics Analysis Cannot Be Written Without DataA deconstruction report sits on my desk. Title: N/A. Information points: not...
The Empty Column Is the Evidence: The Athletics File Bangladesh Never KeptLast month a sheet landed on my desk where every cell carried the same senten...
A One-Second Record and a Two-Minute-24 TruthThe clock stopped at 1:05:15 in Copenhagen. The number sitting beside Peres...
Four Millimetres, 12 Minutes 39 Seconds, and the Half-Count: The Asian Games Race Walk RulingThe results sheet landed on my desk at half past six in the evening. Women's...
The Record Book Nobody Kept: Time, Money and a Silent Stadium Behind 10.29 SecondsTwo Dhaka newspapers recorded the same 2026 100m race as 10.4 seconds and 10....
A Verdict Inside 30 Metres: Why Thailand's Appeal Failed in the Men's 4x100m Relay at the 2026 Asian GamesFor more than an hour they stood beside the Nagoya track — four Thai sprinter...
Forty Millimetres: The Measurement That Erased an Asian Games GoldThree objects sat on the desk: a digital calliper, a pair of carbon-plated ro...
Four Minutes, One Night, One Annulment: Where the Real Arithmetic of a Stripped Asian Games Gold SitsOn a late-September evening in Japan, a woman walked 42.195 kilometres faster...
3:22:20 — The Number That Fits No Shelf in the ArchiveThe clock on the results sheet said 3:22:20. A women's race walk at the Asian...
Asian Games 2026: India's Athletics Day of Historic Medals Hides a Bigger Problem — Missing TimesAt the end of Day 6, India's medal tally read 22 medals and 12th place. But...
11.43 and One Empty Box: Shanti Pereira's Asian Games Semi-Final, and the Numbers Nobody Filed11.43 Seconds, and One Empty Box Next to It The time is 11.43 seconds. Second...
Asiad 20, September 24: Twenty-Five Laps of Expectation on Nguyễn Thị Oanh's Shoulders7:25 pm. A time printed on the September 24 athletics schedule — not news by...
The Uncounted Half of Chicago: Feysa's Crown, Kipruto's Revenge, and an Unwritten World RecordSeven in the evening, Barishal. I opened the results sheet of the Bank of...
The Ledger Nobody Posted To: An Audit of an Empty Results SheetOn Friday morning I opened a file at my Chattogram desk. I called it the...
Empty Input, Zero Evidence: Why Athletics Analysis Cannot Be Written Without DataA deconstruction report sits on my desk. Title: N/A. Information points: not...
The Empty Column Is the Evidence: The Athletics File Bangladesh Never KeptLast month a sheet landed on my desk where every cell carried the same senten...
A One-Second Record and a Two-Minute-24 TruthThe clock stopped at 1:05:15 in Copenhagen. The number sitting beside Peres...
Four Millimetres, 12 Minutes 39 Seconds, and the Half-Count: The Asian Games Race Walk RulingThe results sheet landed on my desk at half past six in the evening. Women's...
The Record Book Nobody Kept: Time, Money and a Silent Stadium Behind 10.29 SecondsTwo Dhaka newspapers recorded the same 2026 100m race as 10.4 seconds and 10....
A Verdict Inside 30 Metres: Why Thailand's Appeal Failed in the Men's 4x100m Relay at the 2026 Asian GamesFor more than an hour they stood beside the Nagoya track — four Thai sprinter...
Forty Millimetres: The Measurement That Erased an Asian Games GoldThree objects sat on the desk: a digital calliper, a pair of carbon-plated ro...
Four Minutes, One Night, One Annulment: Where the Real Arithmetic of a Stripped Asian Games Gold SitsOn a late-September evening in Japan, a woman walked 42.195 kilometres faster...
3:22:20 — The Number That Fits No Shelf in the ArchiveThe clock on the results sheet said 3:22:20. A women's race walk at the Asian...
Asian Games 2026: India's Athletics Day of Historic Medals Hides a Bigger Problem — Missing TimesAt the end of Day 6, India's medal tally read 22 medals and 12th place. But...
11.43 and One Empty Box: Shanti Pereira's Asian Games Semi-Final, and the Numbers Nobody Filed11.43 Seconds, and One Empty Box Next to It The time is 11.43 seconds. Second...
Asiad 20, September 24: Twenty-Five Laps of Expectation on Nguyễn Thị Oanh's Shoulders7:25 pm. A time printed on the September 24 athletics schedule — not news by...