Athletics
Medals Without Clocks: Auditing India's Athletics on Day 6 of the Asian Games
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: A 12.34 Silver, a Two-Year Risk, and the Thing a Stopwatch Cannot Measure
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Unequal Track Hidden Inside a Provisional Suspension
Where a File and a Failure Are Different Things: The Real Question in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension Is Data, Not Doping
What 2:41:55 Actually Reveals: Where Vietnam's Marathon Boom Lacks Depth
What 2:41:55 Actually Reveals: Where Vietnam's Marathon Boom Lacks DepthIt was 3am in the Vietnamese city of Vinh, and a small pack of full-marathon...
Eighty Minutes, Zero Marks: Vietnam's Unfinished Scorecard on the Nagoya TrackAt 17:25 the starting pistol goes for the women's 200m final on the blue trac...
Medals Without Clocks: Auditing India's Athletics on Day 6 of the Asian GamesAt seven in the evening, scrolling the results page at my Chattogram desk, my...
4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: The Real Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day 6First I counted. Fifty-six information points in the Day 6 report, and only...
Gulveer Singh's 10,000m Silver: The Empty Mark of an Athlete Without a TimeThe 10,000m final ended. Gulveer Singh finished second in placing. The silver...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: A 12.34 Silver, a Two-Year Risk, and the Thing a Stopwatch Cannot MeasureI have watched the Paris 100m hurdles final nineteen times from a flat in...
The Number Nobody Published: Where the Real Risk Sits in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's CaseSeptember 18. Right now that is the heaviest date in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's...
Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games: The Times Nobody Wrote Down Behind India's Three MedalsAichi-Nagoya, Day Six, evening. I read the men's 10,000m result sheet three...
4.15 Metres of History, and the Numbers Nobody ReportedWhen Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15 metres and came down on the mat, India h...
Four Medals, Zero Splits: Where Asian Games Day 6 Athletics Data StopsWhen Day 6 results reached my desk in Dhaka, two files were open on my screen...
9.91 Seconds: An Asian Record, a Missing Wind Reading, and the Half Nobody CountedStanding trackside at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, the first thing you notice is ho...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Unequal Track Hidden Inside a Provisional SuspensionI began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. Dhaka,...
The Ledger Without Times: Asian Games 2026 Day 6 and Indian Athletics' Real QuestionThe Day 6 results came off the wire in the evening. The first thing that...
The 9.91 Ledger: A Record Announced Before the Final, and the Empty Wind ColumnFirst I counted. Then I wondered why nobody else had. When the timing board a...
No Witness for 9.91: Puripol Boonson's Record, the Empty Wind Box, and Asia's Sprint RearrangementBefore the evening at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium ended, four numbers had...
The Empty Box Beside 9.91The number flared on the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium the moment the...
9.91 Seconds: The Record That Still Owes Us a Wind ReadingThe results sheet from Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya shows 9.91 seconds....
Where a File and a Failure Are Different Things: The Real Question in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension Is Data, Not DopingI watched the Paris 2026 final from a desk in Chattogram, somewhere around 1:...
Eighty Minutes, Zero Marks: Vietnam's Unfinished Scorecard on the Nagoya TrackAt 17:25 the starting pistol goes for the women's 200m final on the blue trac...
Medals Without Clocks: Auditing India's Athletics on Day 6 of the Asian GamesAt seven in the evening, scrolling the results page at my Chattogram desk, my...
4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: The Real Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day 6First I counted. Fifty-six information points in the Day 6 report, and only...
Gulveer Singh's 10,000m Silver: The Empty Mark of an Athlete Without a TimeThe 10,000m final ended. Gulveer Singh finished second in placing. The silver...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: A 12.34 Silver, a Two-Year Risk, and the Thing a Stopwatch Cannot MeasureI have watched the Paris 100m hurdles final nineteen times from a flat in...
The Number Nobody Published: Where the Real Risk Sits in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's CaseSeptember 18. Right now that is the heaviest date in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's...
Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games: The Times Nobody Wrote Down Behind India's Three MedalsAichi-Nagoya, Day Six, evening. I read the men's 10,000m result sheet three...
4.15 Metres of History, and the Numbers Nobody ReportedWhen Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15 metres and came down on the mat, India h...
Four Medals, Zero Splits: Where Asian Games Day 6 Athletics Data StopsWhen Day 6 results reached my desk in Dhaka, two files were open on my screen...
9.91 Seconds: An Asian Record, a Missing Wind Reading, and the Half Nobody CountedStanding trackside at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, the first thing you notice is ho...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Unequal Track Hidden Inside a Provisional SuspensionI began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. Dhaka,...
The Ledger Without Times: Asian Games 2026 Day 6 and Indian Athletics' Real QuestionThe Day 6 results came off the wire in the evening. The first thing that...
The 9.91 Ledger: A Record Announced Before the Final, and the Empty Wind ColumnFirst I counted. Then I wondered why nobody else had. When the timing board a...
No Witness for 9.91: Puripol Boonson's Record, the Empty Wind Box, and Asia's Sprint RearrangementBefore the evening at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium ended, four numbers had...
The Empty Box Beside 9.91The number flared on the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium the moment the...
9.91 Seconds: The Record That Still Owes Us a Wind ReadingThe results sheet from Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya shows 9.91 seconds....
Where a File and a Failure Are Different Things: The Real Question in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension Is Data, Not DopingI watched the Paris 2026 final from a desk in Chattogram, somewhere around 1:...