Athletics
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62m: A Sponsor's Release and an Unfinished Verification Ledger
Special Report: The Hard Reality of the Asian Games – When Sports Organization Fails, a National Delegation's Fight
Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in Melbourne: Two Seconds of Course Record, Eighty-Five Seconds of Victory, and the Arithmetic of 41
138 Hours 50 Minutes: Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants Finishers and the Eight-Percent Buffer
Not the Medal, But the Ledger: A Thirty-Year Audit of Bangladesh's Sprint Pipeline
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62m: A Sponsor's Release and an Unfinished Verification LedgerA javelin landed 92.62 metres away on a Rome evening — a Sri Lankan national...
Stopwatch vs. Gate: How One-Third of Bangladesh's 100m 'Decline' Is a Measurement ArtifactA mud-and-grass strip at Barishal Stadium, 2026, light draining out of the sk...
Vietnamese Athletics Faces a Star Drought: Where Is the Next Generation After 2026?Vietnam's Athletics Star Drought: Where Is the Next Generation After 2026? Ho...
Puripol Boonson Makes Asian Athletics History with Record-Breaking 9.90-Second Asian Games GoldThe electronic scoreboard at Nagoya's Municipal Mizuho Stadium displayed 9.90...
Special Report: The Hard Reality of the Asian Games – When Sports Organization Fails, a National Delegation's FightThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
Hanoi Techcombank Marathon: Hồng Lệ and Anh Khôi set course records as home runners dominateThe fifth season of the Hanoi Techcombank International Marathon produced a...
Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in Melbourne: Two Seconds of Course Record, Eighty-Five Seconds of Victory, and the Arithmetic of 41Before Eliud Kipchoge came out of the tunnel at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,...
Zero Point Zero Zero One: Vietnam's Asian Games Ledger and Our Own Card IndexVietnam's women's vault lost the bronze by 0.001 points. The men's pommel hor...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela’s Provisional Suspension: Where an Administrative Breach Meets Anti-Doping RiskFrench hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela has been provisionally suspended after an...
The 0.08-Second Ledger: Vietnam's Mixed Relay Bronze and the Arithmetic of a National RecordAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the mixed 4×400 m relay final. At the 120...
Nine Golds, Zero Bonus: Auditing the European Athletics Prize-Fund ReformNine Golds, Zero Bonus: Auditing the European Athletics Prize-Fund Reform Hoo...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 24: Oanh's Name in the 10,000m, and Vietnam's Arithmetic for a Second GoldThe September 24 schedule divides Vietnam's athletics day into three steps. T...
138 Hours 50 Minutes: Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants Finishers and the Eight-Percent BufferThe cutoff is 150 hours. Lưu Đức Toản finished in 137 hours 50 minutes. That...
Two Seconds and a Piece of Fabric: Hodgkinson's Mark Is a Season-Closer, Not a Record ThreatSeptember 19, StoneX Stadium, London. The clock stopped at 1:56.40. First...
One Second Apart: Ngetich's World Record and the Timing Politics of the Half MarathonThe streets of Copenhagen were bright with Sunday sun. But the real story was...
Empty Pipeline, Empty Scoresheet: How Missing Data in Athletics Analysis Masks Institutional FailureThe first thing I noticed at the press tribune of the National Stadium during...
Ruti Aga’s Six-Year Ban: From a Medical Explanation to a Fake Prescription CaseRuti Aga’s six-year ban is not primarily a story about a slow race or a decli...
The 92.62m Ledger Entry: Three Empty Columns Before Rumesh Tharanga's Record Goes Into the BookThe sponsorship release said 92.62 metres. In Rome. A Sri Lankan national...
Not the Medal, But the Ledger: A Thirty-Year Audit of Bangladesh's Sprint PipelineWhat I first learned at the 2026 Dhaka SAF Games was this: a results sheet...
Chicago's Flat Course, the Two-Hour Wall, and the Physiology of a RecordOn the eve of the 48th Chicago Marathon — October 11, 2026 — I went looking f...
The Empty Cells Are Also a Result: Eighteen Blank Years in Bangladesh Athletics' LedgerThe Empty Cells Are Also a Result A document arrived at my desk last week. Ni...
VPBank Hanoi International Marathon 2026: A Pre-Dawn Race, a Paper Record, and the Questions Still Awaiting VerificationA marathon that starts at 01:30 in the morning. The streets of Hanoi. The old...