Athletics
When the Data File Is Empty: A Test for the Sports WriterThat night I did not turn on the recorder. Tran My Linh spoke for ninety...
Nairobi 2029: World Athletics Puts Africa's First World Championships at 1,795 MetresNairobi sits at roughly 1,795 metres above sea level. That figure did not...
Jepchirchir's Suspension: A Nine-Year Curve That Never Spiked, And Why That Matters MoreThe margin of more than three minutes at the finish line was the first thing ...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the heavier sentence was in the fake prescriptionThe prescription in Ruti Aga's file came from a clinic that does not exist. T...
Women Walk 5,000m, Men Walk 20km: Sindh's Gold Medal Exposes the Structure of Pakistani AthleticsThe track around NED University in Karachi at midday is a hard place to hide....
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the buried strata of Pakistani athletics at the 54th National ChampionshipsThe electronic clock at the corner of the NED University track in Karachi...
Mai Trung and Dan Quyet: Ten Metres at Minute Ten, and the Pacing Problem of a Thin 42km Field3:00 a.m., 27 September 2026, Ho Chi Minh Square. Floodlights rake the start...
Mai Trung and Dan Quyet Trade Leads Within 10 Metres, My Hien Leads Women's 42km at VM Nghe An 2026At exactly 3 a.m., while the city of Vinh had not yet shaken off the heat of...
The Empty Dossier: Vietnamese Athletics and the Lesson of a Dataset With No DataOn 11 May 2026, in Phnom Penh, Nguyen Thi Oanh left the 1500m final, took a...
Budapest, the Russia Ban, and the Door Coe Left AjarOn 13 September, in Budapest, on the final day of the inaugural Ultimate...
Mile 20 in Portland: The Cardiac-Screening Gap Behind a Mass-Marathon DeathAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon, Trey Lara stopped and kissed his wife. T...

