Athletics
Vietnam Win Mixed 4x400m Relay Bronze at Asian Games 2026, but Anchor-Leg Weakness Remains
Missing the Bus Is a Privilege in a Games Without a Village
Gold Annulled by a Sole Measurement: The Full Ledger of the Asian Games Race Walk Case
Berlin Marathon: Assefa's 68-Second Gap and the World Record in Doping's Shadow
On the Corporate Athletics Field, Golden Records Are Just Promotion Without Numbers
The Stopwatch Ledger Never Stops: From Imranur's 10.29 to Dhaka's Missing Synthetic Track
AthleticsFrom 11.43 Seconds in the Heats to 11.21 for Silver: The Bigger Story Behind Shanti Pereira's Asian Games SprintAt the Mizuho Athletic Stadium in Nagoya on September 24, 2026, Singapore's...
AthleticsVietnam Win Mixed 4x400m Relay Bronze at Asian Games 2026, but Anchor-Leg Weakness RemainsVietnam's bronze medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the 2026 Asian Games...
AthleticsMissing the Bus Is a Privilege in a Games Without a VillageI settled into the tea stall in Rangpur with a phone in hand, because what ca...
AthleticsAuditing the Speed Suit: From 54.864 Metres to 1:56.40In early 2026, on the indoor boards at Albuquerque, Evelyn Ashford settled in...
AthleticsOne Thousand Against Eight Thousand Five Hundred: The Colombo Marathon's 'Revival' Is Stuck at the NumbersThe press release from Lanka Sportreizen landed on my desk last week. It said...
AthleticsGold Annulled by a Sole Measurement: The Full Ledger of the Asian Games Race Walk CaseThe call came at five in the morning. The man on the line was not from...
AthleticsRumesh Tharanga's 2028 Olympic Dream: A New Javelin Prospect for Sri Lanka or a Test of Promotional Claims?A throw of 92.62 metres in Rome. Another 91.09 metres in Budapest. If both...
AthleticsIs Hanoi's 'Record' Actually a Record? Auditing the VPIM 2026 Timing LedgerAt 01:30 the Hanoi road is still dark. Runners cross the steel piers of Long...
AthleticsEuropean Athletics Championships Set for Record £3 Million Prize Fund in 2028The most significant feature of the approximately £3 million prize fund...
AthleticsBerlin Marathon: Assefa's 68-Second Gap and the World Record in Doping's ShadowThe record attempt at the Berlin Marathon began to fracture around 40...
AthleticsOn the Corporate Athletics Field, Golden Records Are Just Promotion Without NumbersIn the results announcement of Sri Lanka's 41st Mercantile Athletic Federatio...
AthleticsThe Stopwatch Ledger Never Stops: From Imranur's 10.29 to Dhaka's Missing Synthetic TrackI never saw Shah Alam's 2026 SAF Games 100m gold with my own eyes. I have onl...
AthleticsFrom Hand-Timed Glory to Electronic Drought: The Unseen Decline of Bangladeshi SprintingThe timing booth at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium, sixth day of the 20...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: How a Fake Prescription Pushed a Career into CrisisEthiopian marathon runner Ruti Aga has received a six-year ban from anti-dopi...
Athletics17:25 to 18:45: Auditing Vietnam's Eighty-Minute Athletics Day in Nagoya17:25 and 18:45. Between those two lines on the Nagoya Central Stadium...
AthleticsAlmgren Wins New York City Marathon on Debut; Chepkirui Takes Women's RaceSweden's Almgren won the men's race at the New York City Marathon on his full...
AthleticsA Missing Year and a Seven-Second Gap: Reading the New York Marathon Wire Report Through Its SplitsHook The clock at the finish line stopped at 2:06:01. The second man arrived ...
AthleticsNew York City Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Takes Women's TitleMain story Sweden's Almgren has won the men's race at the New York City...
AthleticsAlmgren Wins New York City Marathon on Debut as Chepkirui Takes Women's RaceSweden's Almgren won the men's title at the New York City Marathon, taking...
AthleticsShock over ASIAD gold medal stripping: host country suddenly gets a medalA dramatic and controversial scene unfolded in the athletics programme of the...
AthleticsFrom 92.97 to 80.29: Arshad Nadeem's elbow, the calendar, and a nation's javelin arithmeticOn 8 August 2026, at the Stade de France, the very first attempt of Arshad...
AthleticsAsiad 20, September 24: Where the Expectation Was Written, the Evidence Was NotThe schedule for September 24 was printed and sitting on my desk. Beside 19:2...
AthleticsFrom 92.97 to 80.29: The 12.68 Metres That Slipped Out of Arshad Nadeem's HandA javelin runway ends at a white arc; after that, the tape measure takes over...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships Has an Announcement, Not a Delivery FileWhen Nairobi's name was announced last month, the first four things I searche...
Athletics2:18:31 and a Date: In Jepchirchir's Case, the Real Question Is the Calendar, Not the PerformanceI opened the Sydney results sheet after eleven at night. Row two held a name,...
Athletics32:32.40: A Gold in Karachi, and the Time Nobody Wrote DownOn Thursday morning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology track...