Athletics
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place at Victoria 2026 and a Verdict Missing Its Timing LineA colleague at the station lent me the tape, and I watched the closing stretc...
MAS Holdings wins eighth straight Sri Lankan mercantile athletics title: 548 points, a 242-point margin and 27 records with no wind readingAt Diyagama, some twenty kilometres south-east of Colombo, the 41st mercantil...
Final-Mile Duel: Feysa Retains Crown, Kipruto Makes History at the 2026 Chicago MarathonThe final mile of the 2026 Chicago Marathon felt like a sword fight without...
One Second in Copenhagen: Ngetich Sets the Women-Only Half Marathon Record, but the Outright Best Still Belongs to GideyAt Copenhagen, the finish clock stopped at 1:05:15. Agnes Ngetich of Kenya...
Peres Jepchirchir Suspended: When Performance Data Is Not Enough to Convict or ExonerateOn August 30, 2026, at the Sydney Marathon, Peres Jepchirchir crossed the...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: The Aggravated Penalty Was in the Fake PrescriptionOn 10 September, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) statement contained a...
32:32.40 in Karachi: Sindh's First Gold and the Institutional Map of Pakistani AthleticsThe clock at NED University stopped at 32:32.40. Mahnoor Fatima of Sindh...
Shanti Pereira's 11.43 Seconds at Aichi-Nagoya: A Controlled Qualifier, and the 200m Question Still PendingAt the women's 100m at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, the qualifying...
1,937 and 63: The Gap Sits on the Page, Not on the PitchOn 15 July 2026, I closed the spreadsheet after four weeks of counting by han...
When Athletics Data Has Nothing to Analyze: Lessons from a Silent Pipeline FailureIn more than thirty years of following and reporting on sports, I have never...
Without a Wind Gauge, Vietnamese Women's Athletics Is Misvalued at the SourceOn a late September morning, on the track of a small stadium in Hai Phong, a...
The Empty Stratum: When an Athletics Data Pipeline Fails Without a SoundThe report landed on my desk on a morning in mid-August, nine pages long. Nin...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a 'Record' in Hanoi Is Only a Course Record, Not a BreakthroughAt 1:30 in the morning, on the last Saturday of November, the temperature on...
330 km and 24,000 meters of climbing: Two Vietnamese runners cross the Tower of the Giants — when finishing stops being about speedAt over 2,000 meters of altitude, on a narrow path with no safety ropes, a...
The Empty Cell in Athletics Data and the Discipline of Silence in Sports WritingShenyang, September 2026. The corridor of the women's changing room at the...
Yoo Ji-won and the Gap Behind South Korea's Mass Running BoomKilometre 21. Fewer than 500 metres from the finish line, in central Seoul, Y...
Tragedy at Seoul Race 2026: The Death of Amateur Runner Yoo Ji-won and Safety Issues in South Korea's Running BoomOn the morning of October 11, 2026, at the 24th Seoul Race, a tragic incident...
Kilometre 21 and the Final 500 Metres: What Yoo Ji-won's Data Says08:49, October 11, Seoul. Yoo Ji-won collapsed roughly 500 metres from the...
Mile 20 and the Cardiac Screening Gap: The Death of a 25-Year-Old Marathoner in PortlandMile 18, his wife stood at the barrier. She leaned in, kissed him, patted his...
