Athletics
Vietnam in Athletics Finals at Nagoya: Where the Story Is Surpassing Limits, Not Medal Hopes
The Empty Cell Is the Evidence: Bangladesh's Sprinting and the Crisis of Record-Keeping
The Sanction Ledger: Nobody Is Keeping Kenya's Doping Split Times
Chicago's Flat Track: A Stage for World Records, and the Hidden Ledger Behind It
AthleticsNagoya's 11.43 Seconds: A Semi-Final Secured, a Number Still UnreadSeptember 24, Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. The first of four...
AthleticsVietnam in Athletics Finals at Nagoya: Where the Story Is Surpassing Limits, Not Medal HopesI kept the spreadsheet open until the numbers spoke for themselves. Scanning...
AthleticsThe Empty Spreadsheet: The Unanswered Questions in Bangladesh's Sprint Heritage AuditTitle: The Empty Spreadsheet: The Unanswered Questions in Bangladesh's Sprint...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Mystery: The Questions Buried Behind Boonson's Asian Games RecordWhen Puripol Boonson crossed the finish line in the semifinal, the scoreboard...
AthleticsThe Score Sheet Nobody Reads: Time, Names and Power on Bangladesh's Women's TrackThe result came four minutes later, on a handwritten sheet. Third day of the...
Athletics92.62 Metres: The Record That Hasn't Reached the Results Sheet YetWhen I write about athletes, the habit is old: open the results sheet first,...
AthleticsRuti Aga: Fake Family Prescription, Six-Year Ban, and the Unwritten Ledger of Marathon EconomicsOn 10 September, the ban began: six years. The centre of Ruti Aga’s case is n...
AthleticsEmpty Cells, Full Myth: The Silent Arithmetic of Bangladesh's Sprint ArchiveOctober 2026. At a folding table beside the Bangabandhu National Stadium,...
AthleticsThe Date Buried Under 2:18:31: In Jepchirchir's EPO Case, the Real Question Is Time30 August 2026. In my deal ledger that date sits in its own row, because...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension: From Sydney Title to Tokyo World Crown, One Date Decides EverythingThe most valuable line in an anti-doping notice is not a time. It is a date....
AthleticsNull Payload: The Audit Report With No Athlete in ItThe file that reached my desk in the last audit cycle had nine chapters and...
AthleticsThe Missing Data Is the Story: Reading an Empty Payload in Bangladesh Athletics AnalysisHook What stopped me at the timing booth in Chattogram in March 2026 was not ...
AthleticsA 01:30 Start: The Record Belongs to the Course, Not the ClockThe last stretch of the VPBank Hanoi International Marathon 2026 was run on t...
AthleticsThe Empty Cell Is the Evidence: Bangladesh's Sprinting and the Crisis of Record-KeepingOn a 2026 afternoon I sat in the third row of the Mymensingh District Stadium...
AthleticsThe Sanction Ledger: Nobody Is Keeping Kenya's Doping Split TimesOct 14, Nairobi. Sebastian Coe stood in front of reporters and said Kenya's...
AthleticsKenya's Doping Fight Improves Ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsNairobi, Kenya's capital, will host the 2029 World Athletics Championships,...
AthleticsA Course Record Is Not a World Record: How to Read Eliud Kipchoge's 2:09:10 at 41Eliud Kipchoge came out of the tunnel at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and...
AthleticsChicago's Flat Track: A Stage for World Records, and the Hidden Ledger Behind ItLast week, at three in the morning in my Rangpur flat, I was watching old...