Athletics
Asian Games gold stripped: when the shoe is missing from the approved list
Mixed 4x400m relay: Vietnam breaks national record with 3:14.54 to take ASIAD 2026 bronze
2:29:07 and Nearly USD 700,000: How a Chinese Women's Marathoner Priced Herself
East African Women's Athletics: Full Columns, Empty Content
The Wind Gauge Nobody Switched On: When a Complete Results Sheet Is Still Empty
The Flattest Course Among the Majors: Why Chicago Keeps Producing World Records
Asian Games gold stripped: when the shoe is missing from the approved listWhen a technical official at the Asian Games signed the report on Yasmina...
Ultimate Championship: When World Athletics Becomes Its Own PromoterOn the night of 12 September 2026, at the national stadium in Budapest. The...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: When a Fake Prescription Weighed Heavier Than the DrugThere is one detail in the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement that I had to...
Mixed 4x400m relay: Vietnam breaks national record with 3:14.54 to take ASIAD 2026 bronzeThe anchor leg and 0.08 seconds In the final of the mixed 4x400m relay at ASI...
The Empty Report in Athletics Season: Forty-Seven Data Fields and a Single N/AAt 11:07 p.m., a nine-dimension athletics analysis file landed on my machine....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Extra Four Years Come From the Fake Prescription, Not the Banned SubstanceThe prescription was written on an old prescription pad. The name in the...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the fake prescription cost more than the injectionMarch, a half marathon in China. No live television, grandstands made of...
Ruti Aga banned for six years: the fake prescription outweighed the substanceThe prescription sat in the case file, handwritten on the kind of pad private...
Mahnoor Fatima and 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold Under the Lights of NED UniversityThe sound of footsteps on the piste at NED University does not resemble...
Zhang Shuihua, the former nurse who runs marathons: road racing pays for the story, not for the clockThe clock in Xi'an stopped at 2:29:07. The woman crossed the line, reached...
Zhang Shuihua's 2:29:07 in Xi'an and nearly $700,000 from the roadsThe clock in Xi'an stopped at 2:29:07. Zhang Shuihua crossed the line on the...
2:29:07 and Nearly USD 700,000: How a Chinese Women's Marathoner Priced HerselfOn 18 October 2026 in Xi'an, the clock at the finish line stopped at 2:29:07....
East African Women's Athletics: Full Columns, Empty ContentA nine-section report sat on my screen at eleven at night in Nairobi. Eleven...
The Wind Gauge Nobody Switched On: When a Complete Results Sheet Is Still EmptyApril morning, a provincial stadium in central Vietnam. The 100-metre straigh...
The Silent Pipeline Failure: When Athletics Gets Analysed by an Empty DatasetThat night in Osaka, the wind gauge on the stadium screen went dark just as a...
Asian Games 20: Women's Marathon Race Walk Gold Stripped Over Shoe Sole Thickness — China Takes Gold and Silver, Japan BronzeAt seven in the morning on September 28, the scoreboard on the Aichi - Nagoya...
The Flattest Course Among the Majors: Why Chicago Keeps Producing World RecordsThe elevation gap between the highest and lowest points on the Chicago course...
The Data Void and the Forgotten Names of Vietnamese Women's SportsIt was a July afternoon. I sat in the seventh row of a small stadium in Bosto...
Nguyen Thi Oanh, Three Distances, and the Gap Behind the SEA Games 31 GoldAt SEA Games 31 in My Dinh Stadium, there is a moment I still keep in my...
Athletics in the Data Era: When a Number Without a Source Means NothingOn the electronic board at a national athletics meet, the clock stopped at 9....
Bednarek sheds the 'silver man' label: Budapest sprint double and Olympic ambitionKenny Bednarek walked onto the 100m track in Budapest carrying an unwanted...
Hong Le, Anh Khoi win Hanoi Techcombank International Marathon Season 5: A race record and the story of 15,000 peopleThirty years behind the locker room door, I have learned that the smell of...
Ultimate Championship: When World Athletics Becomes Its Own PromoterOn the night of 12 September 2026, at the national stadium in Budapest. The...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: When a Fake Prescription Weighed Heavier Than the DrugThere is one detail in the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement that I had to...
Mixed 4x400m relay: Vietnam breaks national record with 3:14.54 to take ASIAD 2026 bronzeThe anchor leg and 0.08 seconds In the final of the mixed 4x400m relay at ASI...
The Empty Report in Athletics Season: Forty-Seven Data Fields and a Single N/AAt 11:07 p.m., a nine-dimension athletics analysis file landed on my machine....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Extra Four Years Come From the Fake Prescription, Not the Banned SubstanceThe prescription was written on an old prescription pad. The name in the...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the fake prescription cost more than the injectionMarch, a half marathon in China. No live television, grandstands made of...
Ruti Aga banned for six years: the fake prescription outweighed the substanceThe prescription sat in the case file, handwritten on the kind of pad private...
Mahnoor Fatima and 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold Under the Lights of NED UniversityThe sound of footsteps on the piste at NED University does not resemble...
Zhang Shuihua, the former nurse who runs marathons: road racing pays for the story, not for the clockThe clock in Xi'an stopped at 2:29:07. The woman crossed the line, reached...
Zhang Shuihua's 2:29:07 in Xi'an and nearly $700,000 from the roadsThe clock in Xi'an stopped at 2:29:07. Zhang Shuihua crossed the line on the...
2:29:07 and Nearly USD 700,000: How a Chinese Women's Marathoner Priced HerselfOn 18 October 2026 in Xi'an, the clock at the finish line stopped at 2:29:07....
East African Women's Athletics: Full Columns, Empty ContentA nine-section report sat on my screen at eleven at night in Nairobi. Eleven...
The Wind Gauge Nobody Switched On: When a Complete Results Sheet Is Still EmptyApril morning, a provincial stadium in central Vietnam. The 100-metre straigh...
The Silent Pipeline Failure: When Athletics Gets Analysed by an Empty DatasetThat night in Osaka, the wind gauge on the stadium screen went dark just as a...
Asian Games 20: Women's Marathon Race Walk Gold Stripped Over Shoe Sole Thickness — China Takes Gold and Silver, Japan BronzeAt seven in the morning on September 28, the scoreboard on the Aichi - Nagoya...
The Flattest Course Among the Majors: Why Chicago Keeps Producing World RecordsThe elevation gap between the highest and lowest points on the Chicago course...
The Data Void and the Forgotten Names of Vietnamese Women's SportsIt was a July afternoon. I sat in the seventh row of a small stadium in Bosto...
Nguyen Thi Oanh, Three Distances, and the Gap Behind the SEA Games 31 GoldAt SEA Games 31 in My Dinh Stadium, there is a moment I still keep in my...
Athletics in the Data Era: When a Number Without a Source Means NothingOn the electronic board at a national athletics meet, the clock stopped at 9....
Bednarek sheds the 'silver man' label: Budapest sprint double and Olympic ambitionKenny Bednarek walked onto the 100m track in Budapest carrying an unwanted...
Hong Le, Anh Khoi win Hanoi Techcombank International Marathon Season 5: A race record and the story of 15,000 peopleThirty years behind the locker room door, I have learned that the smell of...