Athletics
Silver Without a Time, History Without a Height: India's Track and Field on Asian Games Day 6
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: No Verdict Without the Count
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: One Date, One Empty Cell, and a Two-Year Band
The Samba-Mayela File: Whereabouts Rules, Calendar Arithmetic, and a Missing Number
The Last Two Kilometres, 88 Seconds and One Unfinished Ledger: Assefa's 2:11:04 in Berlin
The Last Two Kilometres, 88 Seconds and One Unfinished Ledger: Assefa's 2:11:04 in BerlinIt was close to one in the morning in Dhaka when the 35 km split appeared on...
Silver Without a Time, History Without a Height: India's Track and Field on Asian Games Day 6What I noticed first on the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya was not the...
The 17:25 Final and the 18:45 Baton: What Vietnam's Athletics Day in Nagoya Actually MeasuresNagoya Central Stadium, 27 September 2026. Two numbers sit close together on...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Two Historic Women's Medals and the Numbers Nobody Wrote DownThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. T...
A Silver Decided by Hundredths, a Two-Year Shadow: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case the Real Judge Is the ClockThree names arrived in the same photo-finish frame at the Stade de France:...
No Positive Test, Doping Headline: One Date in September and One Missing NumberHook: The Number the Statement Does Not Contain On Friday the Athletics...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: No Verdict Without the CountOpening Layer: One Date and One Empty Cell September 18 is a date. Twenty-fiv...
Names in the Medal Column, Blank in the Time Column: Day 6 Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games and Bangladesh's Open LedgerNames in the Medal Column, Blank in the Time Column: Day 6 Athletics at the...
Four Medals, Zero Times: Auditing India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6Four medals, zero times. That is the most uncomfortable observation from Asia...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: One Date, One Empty Cell, and a Two-Year BandNot blood work. Not an ultrasound. A form. Every athlete inside a Registered...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Clock, the Contract and a Stubborn QuestionThree in the morning in Khulna. One rented screen in a cable operator's offic...
The Samba-Mayela File: Whereabouts Rules, Calendar Arithmetic, and a Missing NumberSeptember 18. The document on my screen carries no time at all — no split, no...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: No Doping, Only a Missing DocumentIn 2026, at the Dhaka SAF Games, I was twenty-two, six months out of a...
9.91 in Nagoya: The Record Still Waiting for a Wind ReadingPuripol Boonson ran 9.91 seconds to win the first semifinal of the men's 100m...