Athletics
9.90 Seconds, Zero Wind: Auditing a Sprint Claim
Nine Empty Fields: What a Blank Performance Report Says About Bangladeshi Athletics
Berlin's 2:11:04: Assefa's 'Missed Record' Is Really a Fuelling Audit
The Archive Buried Beneath the 10.29-Second Machine
Kazakh Race Walker's Asian Games Gold Annulled Over Non-Compliant Shoes
The Null-Input Lesson: Anatomy of a Data Failure in Sports News Analysis
9.90 Seconds, Zero Wind: Auditing a Sprint ClaimAt 3 a.m. a forwarded screenshot lit up the phone. February 2026 had been the...
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Kazakhstan Loses Asian Games Gold Over Shoe Violation as China's Dan Zengquzong Takes Victory: A Regulatory Wake-Up Call for AthleticsThe 42.195-kilometre contest in Nagoya appeared to have produced a decisive...
Boonson’s 9.90-Second Sprint: A Major Achievement, but the Wind Reading Remains UnknownAt the finish of the men’s 100 metres at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Puripo...
0.31 Seconds: The Most Expensive Measurement Error in Bangladesh Sprint HistoryMarch 2026, National Athletics Championships in Dhaka. Three of us sat in the...
Nine Empty Fields: What a Blank Performance Report Says About Bangladeshi AthleticsThe report arrived on screen with the first line already written: insufficien...
Six-Year Ban for Ruti Aga: The Real Failure Is the Paper Trail, Not the InjectionTwo documents sat side by side on my desk: a photograph of a prescription pad...
Vietnamese Women at Nagoya: Beyond Medal Dreams, the Fight to Push Athletic LimitsVietnam's Women at Nagoya: Beyond Medal Dreams, the Fight to Push Athletic...
The September 18 Line: In Samba-Mayela's Case, the Real Question Is Not Doping but the CalendarOn that night at the Stade de France I wrote three lines in my notebook, and...
The Empty Cells Behind 3:14.54The Empty Cells Behind 3:14.54 A national record, a first athletics medal, a...
The Medal Buried Under a Shoe SoleI often sit with results sheets. Over the years, the records that make it to...
Berlin's 2:11:04: Assefa's 'Missed Record' Is Really a Fuelling AuditMy first reaction to the 35km split at the Berlin Marathon was singular—this...
Logistics Crisis Behind the Asian Games Gold MedalAt Garden Pier in Nagoya, the administrative record of a continental Games to...
If No One Watches, Does a Record Even Exist? Bangladesh Athletics' Silent CrisisIn 2026, at the Barishal Divisional Stadium, an under-18 women's football fin...
Not a Golden Opportunity for Vietnam on the Nagoya Track, But a Reality CheckThe afternoon of September 27 at the Nagoya Central Stadium track could add a...
The Archive Buried Beneath the 10.29-Second MachineThe Archive Buried Beneath the 10.29-Second Machine When Imranur Rahman's nam...
Arshad's Golden Javelin and the Stopwatch Ledger: One Shoulder, One Elbow, Three Lost SeasonsNo record is born in a day, and none dies in one either. When the javelin...