Athletics
Thai Sensation Puripol Boonson: 9.91 Seconds Breaks Asian Games Record, But Wind Verification Still Pending
Olympic Silver Medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela Provisionally Suspended Over Whereabouts Failures
The Null-Result Report: The Records Bangladesh's Women's Sport Never Kept
The Final Nobody Streamed: Bangladesh Athletics' Ledger and the Search for a New Path
Sole Rule at 40mm Annuls Asian Games Medal: Host Japan Gets Bronze, What Will Kazakhstan's Appeal Say?
AthleticsThai Sensation Puripol Boonson: 9.91 Seconds Breaks Asian Games Record, But Wind Verification Still PendingOn the track at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, Japan, Thailand's Puripol...
AthleticsNo Track, But an Archive: What 32 Years of Bangladeshi Athletics Results Actually SayThe microfilm scroller stopped on a single line: '10.4', and beside it two...
AthleticsOlympic Silver Medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela Provisionally Suspended Over Whereabouts FailuresFrench Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela is facing a...
AthleticsNairobi 2029 World Athletics Championships: Africa's Historic Hosting Breakthrough Faces an Infrastructure and Accountability TestNairobi 2029: A Historic Recognition and a New Administrative Test for Africa...
AthleticsThe Null-Result Report: The Records Bangladesh's Women's Sport Never KeptOn a December evening in 2026, in the press box at the Barishal Divisional...
AthleticsFistula: Why Namibia's 'Commonwealth Finalist' Data Remains Incomplete in the LedgerWhen the middle-distance athlete from Namibia finished fifth in the mile fina...
AthleticsThe Final Nobody Streamed: Bangladesh Athletics' Ledger and the Search for a New PathOn a December evening in 2026, the district women's football final at the...
AthleticsMahnoor’s Gold Reveals Pakistan’s Incomplete Race-Walking EquationWhen Mahnoor Fatima crossed the line in the women’s 5,000m race walk at the N...
AthleticsSole Rule at 40mm Annuls Asian Games Medal: Host Japan Gets Bronze, What Will Kazakhstan's Appeal Say?When Yasmina Toksanbaeva collapsed on the track after the race, she had a tim...
AthleticsThe 0.100 Rule in the Peres Jepchirchir Case: The Sample Date, Not the Medal, Is the Real FinalThe finish line in Sydney reads 2:18:31. That time still hangs on the...
AthleticsAlmgren Wins New York City Marathon on Debut, Chepkirui Leads the Women's RaceA debut, a title. Almgren won the men's race at the New York City Marathon in...
AthleticsThe Incomplete Evidence of 11.43 Seconds: Shanti Pereira Is Through to the Semis, but the Clock Has Not Told the Whole TruthNagoya's Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, September 24, women's 100m, heat one....
AthleticsTruth Beyond the Numbers: Transparency, Context and Accountability in Athletics AnalysisIntroduction: When the Raw Material for Analysis Is Absent This piece begins...
AthleticsNine Dimensions of Athletics Analysis: A Methodological ExplainerThis piece is not about a specific competition, athlete or record. The Stage-...
AthleticsFistula, Drops of Water, and the Invisible Time of a Mile FinalI first watched the recording of the women's mile final at the 2026 Glasgow...
AthleticsThe 0.08-Second Bronze: Inside Vietnam's Mixed 4x400m Relay RecordAt the Paloma Mizuho Stadium results sheet, I stopped at the 1,200m exchange:...
Athletics11.43 Seconds and an Empty Cell: Shanti Pereira's Semi-final and an Incomplete LedgerThe results sheet that reached my Chattogram desk from Nagoya's Mizuho Park...
AthleticsNine Boxes of N/A: When the Sports Report Becomes the DataI opened the file at eleven at night, at the work table in my Manchester flat...
AthleticsThe Sheet That Comes Back Blank: Bangladesh's Women's Athletics, Half-Counted Numbers and Untimed LapsLast February I opened an old folder in my study in Barishal. Inside were...
AthleticsAsian Games Diary: Two Vietnamese in the Long Jump Final, and One Sprinter Carrying a Double LoadI opened the 27 September diary a little after eleven at night, once the last...
AthleticsTwelve Metres and Sixty-Eight Centimetres: The Distance Arshad Nadeem's Ledger Still OwesTwelve Metres and Sixty-Eight Centimetres Fayyaz Hussain Bukhari wrote an...
AthleticsSports Analysis Without Data Is Impossible: A Methodological ReviewIn recent years, the scope of sports journalism and sports analysis has...
AthleticsNo Track, But an Archive: What 32 Years of Bangladeshi Athletics Results Actually SayThe microfilm scroller stopped on a single line: '10.4', and beside it two...
AthleticsOlympic Silver Medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela Provisionally Suspended Over Whereabouts FailuresFrench Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela is facing a...
AthleticsNairobi 2029 World Athletics Championships: Africa's Historic Hosting Breakthrough Faces an Infrastructure and Accountability TestNairobi 2029: A Historic Recognition and a New Administrative Test for Africa...
AthleticsThe Null-Result Report: The Records Bangladesh's Women's Sport Never KeptOn a December evening in 2026, in the press box at the Barishal Divisional...
AthleticsFistula: Why Namibia's 'Commonwealth Finalist' Data Remains Incomplete in the LedgerWhen the middle-distance athlete from Namibia finished fifth in the mile fina...
AthleticsThe Final Nobody Streamed: Bangladesh Athletics' Ledger and the Search for a New PathOn a December evening in 2026, the district women's football final at the...
AthleticsMahnoor’s Gold Reveals Pakistan’s Incomplete Race-Walking EquationWhen Mahnoor Fatima crossed the line in the women’s 5,000m race walk at the N...
AthleticsSole Rule at 40mm Annuls Asian Games Medal: Host Japan Gets Bronze, What Will Kazakhstan's Appeal Say?When Yasmina Toksanbaeva collapsed on the track after the race, she had a tim...
AthleticsThe 0.100 Rule in the Peres Jepchirchir Case: The Sample Date, Not the Medal, Is the Real FinalThe finish line in Sydney reads 2:18:31. That time still hangs on the...
AthleticsAlmgren Wins New York City Marathon on Debut, Chepkirui Leads the Women's RaceA debut, a title. Almgren won the men's race at the New York City Marathon in...
AthleticsThe Incomplete Evidence of 11.43 Seconds: Shanti Pereira Is Through to the Semis, but the Clock Has Not Told the Whole TruthNagoya's Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, September 24, women's 100m, heat one....
AthleticsTruth Beyond the Numbers: Transparency, Context and Accountability in Athletics AnalysisIntroduction: When the Raw Material for Analysis Is Absent This piece begins...
AthleticsNine Dimensions of Athletics Analysis: A Methodological ExplainerThis piece is not about a specific competition, athlete or record. The Stage-...
AthleticsFistula, Drops of Water, and the Invisible Time of a Mile FinalI first watched the recording of the women's mile final at the 2026 Glasgow...
AthleticsThe 0.08-Second Bronze: Inside Vietnam's Mixed 4x400m Relay RecordAt the Paloma Mizuho Stadium results sheet, I stopped at the 1,200m exchange:...
Athletics11.43 Seconds and an Empty Cell: Shanti Pereira's Semi-final and an Incomplete LedgerThe results sheet that reached my Chattogram desk from Nagoya's Mizuho Park...
AthleticsNine Boxes of N/A: When the Sports Report Becomes the DataI opened the file at eleven at night, at the work table in my Manchester flat...
AthleticsThe Sheet That Comes Back Blank: Bangladesh's Women's Athletics, Half-Counted Numbers and Untimed LapsLast February I opened an old folder in my study in Barishal. Inside were...
AthleticsAsian Games Diary: Two Vietnamese in the Long Jump Final, and One Sprinter Carrying a Double LoadI opened the 27 September diary a little after eleven at night, once the last...
AthleticsTwelve Metres and Sixty-Eight Centimetres: The Distance Arshad Nadeem's Ledger Still OwesTwelve Metres and Sixty-Eight Centimetres Fayyaz Hussain Bukhari wrote an...
AthleticsSports Analysis Without Data Is Impossible: A Methodological ReviewIn recent years, the scope of sports journalism and sports analysis has...