Athletics
The Blank Cell in an Athletics Results Sheet: When No Data Is Not the Same as No Risk
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of Sri Lanka's Longest-Established International Road Race and the Challenge of Sustainable Sports Development
The 0.001-Point Crack: When Vietnamese Sport Hits the Continental Ceiling
Six Hundredths of a Second and the Thirty-Meter Zone: Thailand, Puripol Boonson and the Unappealable Baton Pass at ASIAD 2026
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's Four Athletics Medals and the Unnamed Gaps
Puripol Boonson Breaks the Asian Games 100m Record Twice in 60 Minutes: 9.91, Then 9.90
Dissecting a Race: Why Athletics Cannot Survive on RumourAt the stadium, I usually arrive earlier than the officials. I like to sit ne...
The Blank Cell in an Athletics Results Sheet: When No Data Is Not the Same as No RiskOn the track, an athlete can finish faster than her own national record. But ...
Asiad 20 Closes: 348 Athletes, 3 Golds, and the Gap No One Wants to Look AtThe flame of Asiad 20 faded on the final evening in Aichi-Nagoya, and what...
Asiad 20 Closes: 348 Athletes, 3 Golds, and an Empty Column Named AthleticsOn the closing night of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, I sat in front of the scree...
The Blank Cells on the Results Board and the Races of Kenya's Women AthletesI still remember that afternoon at Kasarani stadium, when organizers taped th...
Colombo Marathon 2026: Seven Silent Years and the Arithmetic of 7,500 Missing RunnersIn Negombo, where the course finally meets the Indian Ocean, organizers are...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of Sri Lanka's Longest-Established International Road Race and the Challenge of Sustainable Sports DevelopmentIn October 2026, the long-distance running community of South Asia and the...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: One Thousand Runners and Seven Years of SilenceThere is a road in Sri Lanka that runs from the heart of Colombo out to Negom...
The 20th Colombo Marathon: A Revived Course and the Footsteps No One CountedIn 2026, the organizers of the LSR Colombo Marathon recorded roughly 8,500...
After Jakarta's Gold: The Silence in Vietnamese Athletics Before Aichi-Nagoya 2026At Jakarta, on the night of the women's 400m hurdles final, Quach Thi Lan...
Quach Thi Lan Retires: The 400m Track Closes and the Echo of a Generation of Vietnamese Women's AthleticsThe electronic clock at the Hangzhou Olympic Stadium stopped at 3 minutes 14....
The 0.001-Point Crack: When Vietnamese Sport Hits the Continental CeilingNagoya taught me that a hand-built spreadsheet is where data first learns to...
Six Hundredths of a Second and the Thirty-Meter Zone: Thailand, Puripol Boonson and the Unappealable Baton Pass at ASIAD 2026On the night of September 28, on lane seven of the ASIAD 2026 stadium, Puripo...
Women's Race Walking at the 2026 Asian Games: When a Pair of Shoes Decided the Gold MedalNagoya, September 27. The women's race walking marathon over 42.195 km...
Thailand and the 30-metre exchange zone: the 0.06 seconds that decided bronze in the ASIAD 2026 men's 4x100m21:47, the evening of September 28. The medal table for the men's 4x100m...
12 Days, 5 Sports, 1 Human: The Living Laboratory at Europe's Southern Edge, and the Questions No Leaderboard Can AnswerOn the fourth day of the traverse, if everything goes to plan, Giorgos Tsiano...
Youth Athletics: The Sediment Beneath a ResultYouth Athletics: The Sediment Beneath a Result In lane four, a sixteen-year-o...
Vietnamese Women's Athletics: Nine Analytical Dimensions and the Finals Nobody Wrote AboutIn May 2026, in Phnom Penh, Nguyen Thi Oanh stepped onto the start line of th...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's Four Athletics Medals and the Unnamed GapsMy messy debut in 2026 taught me this: the field always finds its own way of...
Puripol Boonson Breaks the Asian Games 100m Record Twice in 60 Minutes: 9.91, Then 9.90Scoreboards only record numbers; the story lives in the gaps between them. On...
Cyréna Samba-Mayela and the Twelve-Month Gap: When the Whereabouts Rule Reaches an Olympic Silver Medallist0.01 seconds. That was the entire margin between Masai Russell and Cyréna...
Vietnam breaks national record in mixed 4x400m relay at ASIAD 2026: led after three legs, lost silver by 0.08 secondsAichi-Nagoya Stadium, the mixed 4x400m relay final at ASIAD 2026. As Vietnam'...
Shanti Pereira: The Deliberate 11.43 and the Double-Event Math at the 2026 Asian GamesNagoya, September 24. The track at Mizuho Park was dry and quiet. Shanti...
Keely Hodgkinson's Speed Suit: A Heat Problem, Not an Aerodynamics ProblemOpening On the electronic board at the south end of StoneX Stadium, the clock...
Ngetich Breaks the Women-Only Half Marathon World Record by One Second: Reading the Category Through DataCopenhagen, the looped course of the World Athletics Road Running...
Can Gio, the 200m Wife-Carry: What a Community Marathon Is Really MeasuringCan Gio, 200 meters, and a hunched posture nobody is grading On a weekend...
