Athletics
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62m Revolution: Sri Lanka's Javelin Breakthrough and the Road to the 2028 OlympicsWhen the javelin landed 92.62 metres away during his second attempt at Rome's...
Assefa Runs 2:11:04 in Berlin: Close to the Record, but Questions Remain Over the Splits and Record StatusTigst Assefa won the Berlin Marathon, but the image of her crossing the finis...
Blank Pages, Full Budgets: The Paper Audit of Bangladesh AthleticsOn Wednesday evening I opened the file. Four columns, nine sections, and besi...
Twenty Seconds Ahead at 35km, Sixty-Eight Behind at the Tape: What Assefa's Berlin Near-Miss Actually SaysAt the 35-kilometre timing mat in Berlin, the screen showed a promise: Tigst...
The Speed Suit Science: Keely Hodgkinson's 1:56.40 Is a Season Closer, Not Proof of a Technological BreakthroughAt the Athlos invitational meet at StoneX Stadium in London on 19 September,...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension: An Olympic Silver Medalist's Future at Risk in a Whereabouts CaseSeptember 18. That one date has now become the most important number in Cyren...
Is Hanoi Marathon's 'Record' Really a Record? The Gap Between Numbers and Reality at VPIM 2026The VPBank Hanoi International Marathon began at 1:30 AM on a December mornin...
The Day the New York Marathon Headline Split in Two: A Debut Story and a SilenceI checked the clock three times against the results sheet. The men's champion...
The tight suit of the British athletics star: how much science, how much marketingAt the Athlos meet at London's StoneX Stadium on 19 September, Britain's Keel...
World-Record Dream Cracks in the Final Two Kilometres, Yet Assefa Takes a Personal Best and a Third Berlin TitleOn the flat, fast inner-city course of the Berlin Marathon, a Sunday morning...
Autopsy of an Empty Spreadsheet: How Athletics Loses Its Own DataTitle: Autopsy of an Empty Spreadsheet — How Athletics Loses Its Own Data...
A One-Second Record and a 2:23 Gap: What Copenhagen Actually MeasuredThe clock stopped at 1:05:15 in Copenhagen on Sunday, September 20, 2026. I...
The Testimony of an Empty Cell: Why Zero Data Is the Loudest Finding in an Athletics Record AuditA nine-part analysis document landed on my desk last week. Nine dimensions,...
VPBank Hanoi Marathon: When the Clock and the Bridges DisagreeIn road racing a time is never just a number; it is a claim. At the 2026 VPBa...
Kipchoge's 2:09:10: An Eleven-Metre Course Record and an Eight-Minute Age AuditSylhet, half past four in the morning. One lamp on the desk, two screens. One...
A Bigger Deficit Than the Track: Bangladesh Athletics' Empty LedgerThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. T...
Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record at 41: What the Clock Says and What the Body SaysInside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, before he had even taken the final bend,...
Empty Stage-1 Input: Why the Road from Analysis to Article Is Currently ClosedThe evening tribune is nearly empty. The notebook holds a single line —...
The Spreadsheet That Stayed Empty: Bangladesh's Sprint Records, Verification Chains, and an Audit Against Fabricated DataLast night I opened a file in the Dhaka office. The name was innocuous — an...
No Village, Only a Ledger: The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, a Wrong Anthem, and the Games Inside the ContainersThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....