Athletics
European Athletics' £3m Prize Fund: The Budget Line the Announcement Doesn't Name
The Ledger of Empty Cells: Bangladesh's Documented Sprint Pipeline Void
Asian Games Athletics: Vietnam Reaches the Finals and Stops There — A Medal-Less Ledger and an Uncertain Future
2:06:01, a Missing Year, and Three Sums That Do Not Balance
Gold Stripped in Controversy: Host Nation Suddenly Gets a Medal at the Asian Games
32:32.40, the Unwritten Time, and an Audit of Pakistan's Race Walking Arithmetic
AthleticsThe Question Behind 9.90 Seconds: How Much Should Puripol Boonson’s Asian Games Run Be Valued?Hook: The Race Continued After the Finish Line Puripol Boonson crossed the...
AthleticsEuropean Athletics' £3m Prize Fund: The Budget Line the Announcement Doesn't NameBirmingham, 2026. Great Britain and Northern Ireland won nine golds and...
AthleticsNagoya Transport Failure and Wrong Anthem: The New Politics of Asian Games Athlete HousingI went to Nagoya on September 22, 2026, and found no track-and-field result i...
Athletics3:14.54 — Vietnam's Bronze Ledger and the Anchor-Leg DeficitI have spent years reading track result sheets, and the habit that stuck is...
AthleticsRumesh Tharanga’s Claimed 92.62m: Verification Must Come Before Sri Lanka’s Olympic DreamHook: The result sheet comes first In javelin, a distance can explain a great...
AthleticsThe Empty Ledger: When the Analysis Itself Is Missing, How Does Sports Journalism Read?Let me begin with a confession. This is not a story about the rise of an...
AthleticsThe £3m Prize Fund: A Structural Revolution in European Athletics' Reward Distribution, But What Does It Mean for Bangladesh?At the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain & N...
AthleticsThe Account Ledger Beneath a Corporate Athletics 'Clean Sweep'Umaya Rathnayake runs. Ten hurdles over four hundred metres, and when the rac...
AthleticsThe 0.100 Rule at the Asian Games: Nguyen Thi Oanh's 10,000m Expectations and Vietnam's Medal AuditOn a September evening, when the 25 laps of the 10,000m final begin to add up...
AthleticsAsiad 20 Diary, September 24: The Finals That Were Moved Forward — And The File No One Has OpenedThe Rangpur audit began when the clock disagreed with the crowd. Holding the...
AthleticsThe Ledger of Empty Cells: Bangladesh's Documented Sprint Pipeline VoidLast week a file landed on my desk. The column headers were flawless, the cel...
AthleticsAsian Games Athletics: Vietnam Reaches the Finals and Stops There — A Medal-Less Ledger and an Uncertain FutureSource, date and the limits of the report The article under review is not a...
Athletics2:06:01, a Missing Year, and Three Sums That Do Not BalanceThe men's winner's time in the New York City Marathon results copy reads...
AthleticsGold Stripped in Controversy: Host Nation Suddenly Gets a Medal at the Asian GamesA rare and contested situation has emerged around the women's marathon race...
AthleticsAfter 92.97 the Numbers Stop Reconciling: Arshad Nadeem's Ledger, the Injury Account, and the Limits of a Departmental SystemStade de France, Paris, 8 August 2026. It was half past midnight in Dhaka. I...
AthleticsSydney’s 2:18:31 and the EPO Shadow: The Real Question in Peres Jepchirchir’s Case Is a DateThe clock at the Sydney finish line stopped at 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir had...
AthleticsRuti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: The Prescription No Clinic Ever WroteThe tenth of September. Not a timing gate, not a photo finish, not a 2:18 or ...
Athletics32:32.40, the Unwritten Time, and an Audit of Pakistan's Race Walking Arithmeticplaceholder
AthleticsThe Audit of the Empty Cell: What Bangladesh's Sprint Records Never SayIn January I sat in the press box at the National Stadium in Dhaka and copied...