Athletics
Empty Analysis Leaves Athletics Reporting at a Standstill: Verified Information Must Come First
Asian Games, 27 September: Three Names, Zero Numbers, and Two Races in One Session
Chicago Marathon: Seven World Records, Kelvin Kiptum’s Sub-Two Dream and Sabastian Sawe’s New Era
Where Heights Are Not Measured, Medals Do Not Follow
Empty Analysis Leaves Athletics Reporting at a Standstill: Verified Information Must Come FirstA reliable athletics report begins with verifiable information. Yet the...
Feysa and Kipruto's Chicago Wins: Two Different Signatures in the MarathonAt the finish line of the Chicago Marathon, 2:01:09 — a time that is almost...
Assefa's Berlin 2:11:04 — The 68 Seconds We Have Been MisnamingJust before the Brandenburg Gate, Tigst Assefa folded onto the blue carpet....
Asian Games, 27 September: Three Names, Zero Numbers, and Two Races in One SessionThe 27 September entry in the Asian Games diary opened with the names of two...
Chicago Marathon: Seven World Records, Kelvin Kiptum’s Sub-Two Dream and Sabastian Sawe’s New EraChicago Marathon: The Course, Technology and Athletes Behind the Fastest Time...
Data Gap in Athletics Analysis: Performance, Qualification and Competition Assessment Impossible Without the Original ReportThe true value of an athletics performance depends on time, distance,...
Five Thousand Against Twenty: The Gap Karachi's Race Walk Results RevealThe results sheet carries exactly one number. 32:32.40. On the opening mornin...
Nairobi 2029: The Three Empty Cells in Africa's First World Championships LedgerLast month the World Athletics Council awarded the 2029 World Championships t...
Asiad 20 Diary September 24: High Expectations for Nguyễn Thị OanhOn September 24 at Asiad 20 athletics, Vietnam’s attention centers on Nguyễn...
When the Camera Is the Eye, Who Keeps Athletics' Books?On Saturday afternoon, sitting at that tea stall beside the BFF building, a...
A 32-Minute Gold: Sindh's First Medal Where Opportunity, Not the Stopwatch, Is the Real StoryThe sun is already steep over the track at NED University in Karachi. When...
Bangladesh Athletics' Real Crisis Is Infrastructure, Not StarsWhen I time district school-meet finals at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram...
Where Heights Are Not Measured, Medals Do Not FollowWhen you comb through the Asian Games results sheets in the second decade of...
The Empty Cell: Bangladesh Sprinting's Most Important Injury Report Is the One Nobody FiledTwo lines were still lit on the screen. One read: Title — N/A. The other read...
The Half That Never Reaches the Ledger: A History of Empty Boxes in Bangladesh AthleticsHook July 2026. A press box at the National Stadium in Dhaka, a results sheet...
Empty Cells, Missing Names: The Entry List That Is Bangladeshi Athletics' Real ScoreboardLast week a document landed on my desk. Nine chapters, twenty-seven tables, a...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold and the Distance Nobody MeasuredOn the scoreboard that morning, the men's 20km race walk podium had already...
From 92.97 to 80.29: The 12.68 Metres in Arshad Nadeem's Javelin That No Coaching Advice Can Fill"It would be a great tragedy if he were forced to retire at this age." That...
Sixth, Fifth, Last — Vietnam's Athletics Day Left Three Empty Boxes on the Results SheetThe results sheet for September 29 carried three lines. In the women's high...
Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsIntroduction At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, World Athletics Preside...
Kipchoge's 2:09:10 in Melbourne: A City Record, Not a World OneIn the final kilometre, inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Eliud Kipchoge...