Athletics
Vietnam's Asian Games Review: The Missing Half of Athletics and the Middle Trap
A One-Second Ledger: Ngetich's 1:05:15 in Copenhagen and the Unfinished Accounting of Women's Road Running
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 01:30 Clock, Three Bridges, and the Gap Between Two Times
Melbourne's Course Record, a 41-Year-Old Kipchoge, and the Empty Column in the Ledger
Nine Golds, Zero Euros: The Accounting Error That the £3m Fund of 2028 Is CorrectingBirmingham 2026 is over. Great Britain and Northern Ireland left the European...
Bangladesh's Athletics Ledger: Four Golds, One Empty Column and Eighteen Years of ArithmeticThere is a results sheet in my drawer — the men's 100m final at the National...
Those 80 Minutes in Nagoya: Why Vietnam's Athletics Doesn't Figure in the Medal ArithmeticThere is a number on the Nagoya Central Stadium timetable that nobody noticed...
Vietnam's Asian Games Review: The Missing Half of Athletics and the Middle TrapOn September 19, ten days after the opening ceremony of the Asian Games,...
From Speed Suits to Sponsor Ledgers: What Athletics' Fashion Politics Is HidingI first saw the 2026 Albuquerque frame on an old magazine scan years ago....
New York Marathon: Almgren's Debut Crown and the Story Buried Under the NumbersThe scoreboard read 2:06:01. Stop there. Before we talk about that number,...
Low-cost Asian Games: South Korea's grievances, a wrong anthem, and the OCA's silenceNAGOYA, Japan, Sept 22 — South Korea's delegation has publicly challenged the...
Nine Columns, Nine Zeros: The Report That Exposed Athletics' Real CrisisLast week a file landed on my Chattogram desk. Its first page was a table: ni...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India’s Athletics Breadth, the Medal Ledger and the Missing Times1:40 a.m., Liverpool. I opened the Day 6 results sheet for the 2026 Asian...
A One-Second Ledger: Ngetich's 1:05:15 in Copenhagen and the Unfinished Accounting of Women's Road RunningCopenhagen's Sunday morning was sunny, and Agnes Ngetich went to the front...
The 2:47:52 Margin: VPIM 2026 and the Difference Between a Race Record and a Global StandardThe seventh edition of the VPBank Hanoi International Marathon is over, and o...
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 01:30 Clock, Three Bridges, and the Gap Between Two TimesAt 01:30 in Hanoi the 42.195-kilometre clock starts. The winners of VPIM 2026...
The Empty Archive Is the Crime Scene: 10.29 Seconds, a Missing Budget Line, and a Broken Chain of CustodyThe archive nobody kept is where this story begins. In December 2026 I was...
92.62 Metres, and a Record With No Wind Reading AttachedOn a Rome evening, the javelin landed 92.62 metres away and the press note...
A Course Record and a Peak Are Two Different Ledgers: Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in MelbourneA Course Record and a Peak Are Two Different Ledgers: Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in...
Melbourne's Course Record, a 41-Year-Old Kipchoge, and the Empty Column in the LedgerEliud Kipchoge eased off the throttle after entering the Melbourne Cricket...
Bangladesh's Athletics Ledger: Four Golds, One Empty Column and Eighteen Years of ArithmeticThere is a results sheet in my drawer — the men's 100m final at the National...
Those 80 Minutes in Nagoya: Why Vietnam's Athletics Doesn't Figure in the Medal ArithmeticThere is a number on the Nagoya Central Stadium timetable that nobody noticed...
Vietnam's Asian Games Review: The Missing Half of Athletics and the Middle TrapOn September 19, ten days after the opening ceremony of the Asian Games,...
From Speed Suits to Sponsor Ledgers: What Athletics' Fashion Politics Is HidingI first saw the 2026 Albuquerque frame on an old magazine scan years ago....
New York Marathon: Almgren's Debut Crown and the Story Buried Under the NumbersThe scoreboard read 2:06:01. Stop there. Before we talk about that number,...
Low-cost Asian Games: South Korea's grievances, a wrong anthem, and the OCA's silenceNAGOYA, Japan, Sept 22 — South Korea's delegation has publicly challenged the...
Nine Columns, Nine Zeros: The Report That Exposed Athletics' Real CrisisLast week a file landed on my Chattogram desk. Its first page was a table: ni...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India’s Athletics Breadth, the Medal Ledger and the Missing Times1:40 a.m., Liverpool. I opened the Day 6 results sheet for the 2026 Asian...
A One-Second Ledger: Ngetich's 1:05:15 in Copenhagen and the Unfinished Accounting of Women's Road RunningCopenhagen's Sunday morning was sunny, and Agnes Ngetich went to the front...
The 2:47:52 Margin: VPIM 2026 and the Difference Between a Race Record and a Global StandardThe seventh edition of the VPBank Hanoi International Marathon is over, and o...
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 01:30 Clock, Three Bridges, and the Gap Between Two TimesAt 01:30 in Hanoi the 42.195-kilometre clock starts. The winners of VPIM 2026...
The Empty Archive Is the Crime Scene: 10.29 Seconds, a Missing Budget Line, and a Broken Chain of CustodyThe archive nobody kept is where this story begins. In December 2026 I was...
92.62 Metres, and a Record With No Wind Reading AttachedOn a Rome evening, the javelin landed 92.62 metres away and the press note...
A Course Record and a Peak Are Two Different Ledgers: Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in MelbourneA Course Record and a Peak Are Two Different Ledgers: Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in...
Melbourne's Course Record, a 41-Year-Old Kipchoge, and the Empty Column in the LedgerEliud Kipchoge eased off the throttle after entering the Melbourne Cricket...