Athletics
AthleticsTigst Assefa's Historic Berlin Victory: World Record Dream Fades in the Final Stages2026-11-10The most important moment in a marathon does not always come at the finish...
AthleticsBlank Cells, Dates and One Name: The Unwritten Four Decades of Bangladesh Athletics2026-11-04Last Sunday at two in the morning I sat down with an analytical framework —...
AthleticsThe Grant Ledger Shows the Money; the Divisional HQs Show No Track2026-11-03In May 2026 I left a district stringer post in Barishal for a digital sports...
Athletics2:09:10 in Melbourne: Kipchoge's Two-Second Course Record and the Arithmetic of Being 412026-10-31It was nearly half past eleven at night. The projector beside the tea stall...
AthleticsOlympic silver medalist Cyrena Samba-Mayela handed provisional suspension: the two-year ban risk and the questions still unanswered2026-10-31French hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela, the Olympic silver medalist in the 100m...
AthleticsThe Weight of an Empty Sheet: Why Zero Data Is the Most Honest Evidence in Athletics Analysis2026-10-20Last week I opened a file and sat with it for a while in silence. Nine...
Tigst Assefa's Historic Berlin Victory: World Record Dream Fades in the Final StagesThe most important moment in a marathon does not always come at the finish...
Manpreet's 17.17m: The Bronze That Reveals India's Field Depth, Not Its CeilingAt the 2026 Asian Games in South Korea, India won 28 golds. After Day 6 in...
Blank Cells, Dates and One Name: The Unwritten Four Decades of Bangladesh AthleticsLast Sunday at two in the morning I sat down with an analytical framework —...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Temporary Suspension: An Administrative Breach, Not Doping — The Distinction Nobody ReadsOn September 18, the Athletics Integrity Unit signed a decision, and the name...
The Grant Ledger Shows the Money; the Divisional HQs Show No TrackIn May 2026 I left a district stringer post in Barishal for a digital sports...
2:09:10 in Melbourne: Kipchoge's Two-Second Course Record and the Arithmetic of Being 41It was nearly half past eleven at night. The projector beside the tea stall...
Olympic silver medalist Cyrena Samba-Mayela handed provisional suspension: the two-year ban risk and the questions still unansweredFrench hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela, the Olympic silver medalist in the 100m...
The Empty Ledger: Accounting for Missing Data in Bangladesh's Sprint RecordJanuary 12, 2026, 11:40 p.m. I opened a spreadsheet titled...
Gender Pay Gap in Athletics: Where Men's Prize Is 30 Million, Women's Is 3 MillionLast December, I was watching the final of an international indoor meet. Afte...
The Weight of an Empty Sheet: Why Zero Data Is the Most Honest Evidence in Athletics AnalysisLast week I opened a file and sat with it for a while in silence. Nine...
2:01:09 and 2:13:33: Two Different Measurements on One Results SheetChicago Marathon, 11 October 2026. At the 40-kilometre checkpoint Amos...
A Few Millimetres Erased 3:22:20: How the Asian Games Race-Walk Gold Went to the HostThe clock stopped at 3:22:20. What matters in that number is not the time...
The Page of the Record Book Nobody WroteThe 2026 race has two times. One is 10.4 seconds, the other 10.47. One was...
Nairobi 2029: The Numbers Still Missing From the First African World Championships' Legacy StoryLast month the World Athletics Council reached a decision that carries no...
The Ledger of an Empty Payload: When Sports Analysis Halts for Lack of DataWhen I opened the Stage-1 document at my desk last Thursday night, the first...
The Empty Cell Beside 9.90: Boonson's MVP Crown and the Asian Games' Inflated Record LedgerThe digital board at the Aichi-Nagoya track read 9.90. The number that matter...
MAS's 8th Consecutive Title at 41st Mercantile Athletics: The Politics of Corporate DominanceIn the silence of an empty stadium, the stillness of the clock's hand is the...
From the Ledger of Vietnamese Athletics: Quách Thị Lan's Retirement and the Empty Relay Track3:14.54. This single number is the biggest clue in the entire story. When...
Four Millimetres and an Uncounted Gold: The Arithmetic of the Asian Games Women's Marathon Race Walk1. A Nagoya Morning, and a Number Nobody Counted By seven in the morning the...