Athletics
92.62 Metres, and the Wind Reading Nobody Wrote Down
From a Null Payload to Blockchain: Who Will Protect the Integrity of Sports Data?
Berlin Marathon: Assefa's 68 Seconds and a World Record Wrapped in Fog
The Archive Nobody Kept: The Unverified Pages of Bangladesh's Sprint Record Book
Chen Yujie, Yan Ziyi, Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, LA 2028, Athletics, Youth Pipeline
Nagoya's Two Records Are Not One Measure: The Reality of 11.06 Seconds and the Verification of 70.46 Metres
92.62 Metres, and the Wind Reading Nobody Wrote DownLast week I sat with a results sheet from Budapest. Less than a page. One nam...
The 92.62-Metre Javelin: Sri Lanka's Claim, an Empty Ledger, and the 2028 ReckoningThe evening breeze in a Rome stadium struck the javelin's flat surface, and t...
2:09:10 at 41 — What Kipchoge's Melbourne 'Record' Actually Is, and What It Isn'tHook: The Story Inside Two Seconds The roar built as Eliud Kipchoge came out ...
From a Null Payload to Blockchain: Who Will Protect the Integrity of Sports Data?The 2026 National Athletics Championships, women's 100m final. Twelve starter...
Zero Is the Story Here: Bangladesh Athletics and Its Ledger CrisisLast week I opened a data file and my first thought was that something had go...
The Empty Timing Sheet Is the Real Story: Bangladeshi Athletics, the Data Void, and the Question of Verifiable RecordsA results sheet arrived in my hands one evening in Khulna. The final list for...
Berlin Marathon: Assefa's 68 Seconds and a World Record Wrapped in FogThe clock stopped at 2:11:04. On Berlin's flat asphalt, Tigst Assefa walked t...
The Archive Nobody Kept: The Unverified Pages of Bangladesh's Sprint Record BookLast month I stopped halfway through flipping an old results sheet in an offi...
Nagoya Asian Games 2026: No Village, Just Containers and a Cruise Ship — And One Wrong National Anthem8 PM. The last workout before the final was scheduled. The bus never came....
The Race With No Ledger: Bangladesh Athletics, Nine Empty Cells, and the Unfinished Promise of a Blockchain RecordLast month I ran a deconstruction on my own reporting. Nine dimensions —...
The Run That Stopped for a Fistula: Naomi Korir's Fifth Place, the Missing Time and Kenya's Deep PoolKhulna District Stadium, 2026. The final of a district women's football...
The Empty Wind Column: China's Two Teenage Records at Nagoya 2026 and the Verification DebtSeven minutes after the women's javelin final in Nagoya, all I had in front o...
Mercantile Athletics: MAS's 548-Point Dominance and the Real Signal Hidden Behind 27 Meet RecordsThe last number on the Diyagama Stadium scoreboard read 548. The runner-up...
Chen Yujie, Yan Ziyi, Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, LA 2028, Athletics, Youth PipelineAt the Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, the performances of Chen Yujie (17) and Yan...
3:14.54 Is a Team Mark: Quách Thị Lan's Retirement and Vietnam's Relay-Ledger Gap3 minutes 14.54 seconds. The number has sat in my notebook like a date since...
The Stopwatch Audit: Why Vietnam's 'Golden Era' Was Just Three Bronzes and Three Reallocated MedalsMy beat shrank from four columns a month to one, so I built a one-man digital...
MAS's Eighth Crown at Mercantile Athletics: A Quiet 548-Point Dominion and the New Horizon of Ranking RecognitionAt Diyagama Stadium in Colombo, when the final event's result was announced,...
Nagoya's Two Records Are Not One Measure: The Reality of 11.06 Seconds and the Verification of 70.46 MetresHook: Two Marks, One Headline, Two Standards That evening in Nagoya reached m...