Athletics
The Question Still Running From an Empty Deconstruction: Paper Gold and Track Reality in Bangladeshi Athletics
Sydney Marathon's 2:18:31 and the Quiet EPO Case: Why Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension Raises Questions About Marathon Integrity
Arshad Nadeem's Golden Era Is Not Over, It's Time for a Rebuild
A Gold Lost to a Shoe Rule: The Asian Games Race Walk Scandal Nobody Audited
The 2:06:01 Looks Clean Until You Look for the Year
Chicago's Clock and the Paperwork: The Course That Makes Records, and the Records That Rot in FilesChicago's Clock and the Paperwork: The Course That Makes Records, and the...
Empty Analysis Leaves Athletics Report GroundedThe most important question before publishing an athletics report is missing...
Naomi Korir Adapted Her Running Career While Living With a Congenital FistulaFor most athletes, success in international athletics is measured through...
Major Data Gap in Athletics Analysis: No Verifiable Information on Athletes, Competitions or PerformancesThe most serious mistake in athletics performance analysis is sometimes not t...
The Question Still Running From an Empty Deconstruction: Paper Gold and Track Reality in Bangladeshi AthleticsAt 1:40 a.m. on a Friday night in a Khulna internet café, I opened a file wit...
Sydney Marathon's 2:18:31 and the Quiet EPO Case: Why Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension Raises Questions About Marathon IntegrityThat dawn on the streets of Sydney, 31 August 2026, is still etched in my min...
Arshad Nadeem's Golden Era Is Not Over, It's Time for a RebuildAt the 54th National Athletics Championships in Faisalabad, only five athlete...
92.97 to 80.29 Metres: What Arshad Nadeem's Numbers Say, and What His Coach's Appeal Does NotThe 54th National Athletics Championships in Karachi published its entry list...
A Gold Lost to a Shoe Rule: The Asian Games Race Walk Scandal Nobody AuditedSeptember 27, Nagoya. The finish line of the women's 42.195 km race walk at t...
Eight Divisions, Zero Synthetic Tracks: A Photo-Finish Audit of Bangladesh's Sprint PipelineA November evening in 2026. Manchester Regional Arena. A British Milers' Club...
The 2:06:01 Looks Clean Until You Look for the YearThe clock at the finish line stopped at 2:06:01. Almgren’s legs were still...
New York City Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Takes the Women's RaceAlmgren of Sweden won the men's race at the New York City Marathon on his...
Chicago's Eight Metres: In a City of Seven World Records, the Stopwatch's Testimony Is Still Incomplete11 October 2026. The 48th Chicago Marathon. On one side of my laptop sits the...
Gold Annulled by a Shoe Rule: Kazakh Race Walker Loses Asian Games Title as China Takes Top Two PlacesKazakhstan's Yasmina Toxanbayeva has had her Asian Games women's race walk go...
Vietnam's Mixed 4×400m Relay Bronze and National Record: What 3:14.54 Really Contains — and What It Does NotA Medal Decided in the Final Strides Vietnam's first athletics medal of the...
A Three-Million-Pound Headline, and One Thousand Euros for EighthOne thousand euros for eighth place. Five thousand for fourth. Thirty thousan...
The 3 AM Dark and the 7:30 Siren: The Half Still Uncounted in Vietnam's Marathon BoomThree in the morning in Vinh. September air thick with salt and humidity. A...
Feysa in Chicago’s Final Mile, Kipruto’s Solitary Run: One Marathon, Two Kinds of ValueChicago’s Final Mile Hawi Feysa took the final bend in Chicago with Sharon...
A Headline Without a Time: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Arithmetic of WhereaboutsThe sanction was imposed on 18 September. On Friday the Athletics Integrity...
Seven World Records in Chicago: Not a Story About a Flat Course, but About Two Measuring RegimesBefore the 48th Chicago Marathon I read the course profile as a measurement,...
Berlin's Clock, Assefa's Foot, and the Paperwork of a RecordAt the 40-kilometre checkpoint in Berlin, the clock was still speaking for...
From Stopwatch Ghost to Wildcard: The Empty Cells in Bangladesh's Sprint LedgerThere is a spreadsheet on my laptop that has stayed open for seven years. I...
In the Jepchirchir Case, the Bigger Question Is a Date, Not 2:18:31In my personal ledger, the 30 August 2026 column carried one number: 2:18:31....
Not Sydney's 2:18:31 — the Real Question Is the Date of That Kenyan SampleThe clock at the Sydney finish read 2:18:31, and the nearest rival behind Per...
Empty Analysis Leaves Athletics Report GroundedThe most important question before publishing an athletics report is missing...
Naomi Korir Adapted Her Running Career While Living With a Congenital FistulaFor most athletes, success in international athletics is measured through...
Major Data Gap in Athletics Analysis: No Verifiable Information on Athletes, Competitions or PerformancesThe most serious mistake in athletics performance analysis is sometimes not t...
The Question Still Running From an Empty Deconstruction: Paper Gold and Track Reality in Bangladeshi AthleticsAt 1:40 a.m. on a Friday night in a Khulna internet café, I opened a file wit...
Sydney Marathon's 2:18:31 and the Quiet EPO Case: Why Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension Raises Questions About Marathon IntegrityThat dawn on the streets of Sydney, 31 August 2026, is still etched in my min...
Arshad Nadeem's Golden Era Is Not Over, It's Time for a RebuildAt the 54th National Athletics Championships in Faisalabad, only five athlete...
92.97 to 80.29 Metres: What Arshad Nadeem's Numbers Say, and What His Coach's Appeal Does NotThe 54th National Athletics Championships in Karachi published its entry list...
A Gold Lost to a Shoe Rule: The Asian Games Race Walk Scandal Nobody AuditedSeptember 27, Nagoya. The finish line of the women's 42.195 km race walk at t...
Eight Divisions, Zero Synthetic Tracks: A Photo-Finish Audit of Bangladesh's Sprint PipelineA November evening in 2026. Manchester Regional Arena. A British Milers' Club...
The 2:06:01 Looks Clean Until You Look for the YearThe clock at the finish line stopped at 2:06:01. Almgren’s legs were still...
New York City Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Takes the Women's RaceAlmgren of Sweden won the men's race at the New York City Marathon on his...
Chicago's Eight Metres: In a City of Seven World Records, the Stopwatch's Testimony Is Still Incomplete11 October 2026. The 48th Chicago Marathon. On one side of my laptop sits the...
Gold Annulled by a Shoe Rule: Kazakh Race Walker Loses Asian Games Title as China Takes Top Two PlacesKazakhstan's Yasmina Toxanbayeva has had her Asian Games women's race walk go...
Vietnam's Mixed 4×400m Relay Bronze and National Record: What 3:14.54 Really Contains — and What It Does NotA Medal Decided in the Final Strides Vietnam's first athletics medal of the...
A Three-Million-Pound Headline, and One Thousand Euros for EighthOne thousand euros for eighth place. Five thousand for fourth. Thirty thousan...
The 3 AM Dark and the 7:30 Siren: The Half Still Uncounted in Vietnam's Marathon BoomThree in the morning in Vinh. September air thick with salt and humidity. A...
Feysa in Chicago’s Final Mile, Kipruto’s Solitary Run: One Marathon, Two Kinds of ValueChicago’s Final Mile Hawi Feysa took the final bend in Chicago with Sharon...
A Headline Without a Time: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Arithmetic of WhereaboutsThe sanction was imposed on 18 September. On Friday the Athletics Integrity...
Seven World Records in Chicago: Not a Story About a Flat Course, but About Two Measuring RegimesBefore the 48th Chicago Marathon I read the course profile as a measurement,...
Berlin's Clock, Assefa's Foot, and the Paperwork of a RecordAt the 40-kilometre checkpoint in Berlin, the clock was still speaking for...
From Stopwatch Ghost to Wildcard: The Empty Cells in Bangladesh's Sprint LedgerThere is a spreadsheet on my laptop that has stayed open for seven years. I...
In the Jepchirchir Case, the Bigger Question Is a Date, Not 2:18:31In my personal ledger, the 30 August 2026 column carried one number: 2:18:31....
Not Sydney's 2:18:31 — the Real Question Is the Date of That Kenyan SampleThe clock at the Sydney finish read 2:18:31, and the nearest rival behind Per...