Athletics
Asian Games 2026: The 4.15m History and a Silver Without a Clock
Location Miss, Three Strikes, Empty Ledger: Reading Samba-Mayela's Suspension Against Our Invisible Pipeline
9.91 Seconds: Thailand's Teenager, an Unratified Record, and Asia's Sprint Geography
A Whereabouts Failure Is Not Doping — and 'No Positive Test' Is Not Innocence Either
ASIAD 20: Vietnam's Athletics on Three Fronts in Nagoya — But Let the Stopwatch Speak FirstOpening: At 17:25 the women's 200m final; at 18:45 the women's 4x100m relay...
A Ten-Metre Lead and the 69th Fastest Mark: Nghệ An's Marathon and the Invisible Ceiling of Vietnam's Running EconomyThe live blog said the leader was ten metres clear, then that two men were...
Asian Games 2026: The 4.15m History and a Silver Without a ClockThe final 400 metres. That stretch of a distance race reveals finishers....
Medals Without Times: The Gap India's Day 6 Athletics Results at the Asian Games Cannot HideThe board at the Aichi-Nagoya stadium posted the men's 10,000m result, and fr...
The Ledger of Absence: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, Whereabouts and the Half That Athletics Never CountedAugust 10, 2026, Stade de France. The women's 100m hurdles final has just...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Whereabouts Breach: What the Ledger Does Not SayLate last Friday I pulled an old ledger out of the desk drawer and marked a...
Aichi-Nagoya Day 6: Four Medals, Zero Splits — The Ledger Nobody FiledAichi-Nagoya Day 6: Four Medals, Zero Splits — The Ledger Nobody Filed It is...
Location Miss, Three Strikes, Empty Ledger: Reading Samba-Mayela's Suspension Against Our Invisible PipelineSeptember 18. In the corner of my meet-ledger — the page where every result...
4.15 Metres and a Missing Time: What Day 6 of the Asian Games Actually CostBaranica Elangovan's pole stopped at 4.15 metres, and the place where it...
9.91 Seconds: One Semifinal, One Unratified Record, and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. A...
The Empty Cells on the Clock: India's Athletics Day Six at the Asian Games, and Bangladesh's Blank CalendarI counted first, then wondered why nobody else had. The Day Six results sheet...
9.91 Seconds: Thailand's Teenager, an Unratified Record, and Asia's Sprint GeographyPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. In the first heat of the men's 100m semifinals...
A Whereabouts Failure Is Not Doping — and 'No Positive Test' Is Not Innocence EitherAt the Manchester Regional Arena in 2026 the first thing the timing desk taug...