Athletics
Almgren Wins on Marathon Debut in New York, Chepkirui Takes Women's Race
The Empty Column: Sindh's Gold, Pakistan's Race Walking and an Unwritten 20 Kilometres
Between 11.7 and 11.98 Seconds: The Ledger Bangladesh Athletics Has Not Yet Written
A Few Millimetres and Twelve Minutes: The Ledger Behind a Reversed Asian Games Gold
Samba-Mayela: A Substance-Free Suspension, Yet the Biggest Hurdle of Her Career
Nghe An Marathon: Participation Is Growing, but Elite Depth Remains LimitedA lead changed hands by a few metres in the early hours of the race. A live...
A 242-Point Gap: MAS Holdings' Eighth Straight Mercantile Crown and the 27 'Records' That Point to a Missing ColumnOpening the results sheet, the first thing I notice is not a score, not a med...
The Ledger That Names the Debtor: Korea's Grievance at Aichi-Nagoya and the New Arithmetic of the Asian GamesThe bus did not come from Garden Pier in Nagoya. Hours before a final. Agains...
Counting from September 18: The Number Still Missing in Samba-Mayela's FileFriday's confirmation from the Athletics Integrity Unit arrived in a single...
The Empty Cell That Sank a Championship FileIn my Chattogram desk I opened a file whose only populated cell was the word...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Safety Net: An Administrative Failure or a Career Crossroads?I have a timeline placed on my desk for Cyrena Samba-Mayela. On September 18,...
Quach Thi Lan's Retirement: The Hidden Truth Behind a Relay RecordA missing baton. When Vietnam's four runners crossed the finish line in the...
The Stopwatch Stays Silent: Naomi Korir's Fistula, a Fifth Place, and an Incomplete DatasetWhen I think about that mile final in Glasgow, the first thing that comes to...
Athletics Lost in the Asian Games Diary: The Hidden Story Behind Vietnam's Two Long JumpersI turn the page of Vietnam's state sports daily for September 27 of the Asian...
New York Marathon Historic Victory for Swedish Newcomer: European Crown on Debut, But Women's Division Left Behind AgainI counted 62 finals on a results sheet at the National Stadium in 2026. Nine...
Almgren Wins New York Marathon on Debut, Chepkirui Survives a Seven-Second ThrillerSweden's Almgren won the men's elite race at the New York City Marathon on hi...
Almgren Wins on Marathon Debut in New York, Chepkirui Takes Women's RaceAlmgren of Sweden won the men's race at the New York City Marathon on his deb...
The Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Junior Sprinting Doesn't Lose Data—It Never Generates ItIn November 2026 I stood in the meet office at the National Stadium in Dhaka...
The Empty Cell: What a Failed Extraction Says About Bangladesh's Unmeasured Sprint ArchiveIn mid-August an extraction job came back empty. Eight fields were supposed t...
The Empty Dossier: In Bangladesh's Sprinting, the Missing Data Is the FindingThe Empty Dossier: In Bangladesh's Sprinting, the Missing Data Is the Finding...
A Prescription Pad, Six Years: In Ruti Aga's Case, the Offence Was the Paperwork“The clinic flatly denied it — the pad was not theirs.” In the file on Ruti...
The Empty Column: Sindh's Gold, Pakistan's Race Walking and an Unwritten 20 KilometresWhen a race-walking results sheet lands in front of me, my eye goes first to...
One Second Apart: Why Ngetich's Record Is a Reckoning, Not Just a TimeOn a sunlit Copenhagen morning the clock stopped at one hour, five minutes an...
What the 2:41:55 Conceals: A Depth Audit of Vietnam's Marathon BoomOn the coastal road of Vinh, at three in the morning, while reporters were...
Between 11.7 and 11.98 Seconds: The Ledger Bangladesh Athletics Has Not Yet WrittenIn the winter of 2026 I sat in the third row of the Mymensingh District Stadi...