Athletics
3:22:20 — The Number That Fits No Distance, Yet Won a Gold2026-11-11Three hours, twenty-two minutes, twenty seconds. 3:22:20. For eight years now...
The Blank Qualifying Column: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Empty Start List2026-11-07The entry list arrived at 11:20 p.m. I opened it at a Chattogram desk with on...
9.90 Seconds and an Empty Wind Box: Auditing the Asian Games Record Rain2026-10-06When the electronic board in Aichi-Nagoya flashed 9.90, my mind went back to ...
10.29 Seconds, and the Record Book Nobody Ever Kept2026-10-04Within four minutes of the 100m final at the last National Championships, thr...
Sole Thickness Over Gold: Asian Games Race-Walk Title Annulled in First Equipment-Based Medal Stripping2026-09-303:22:20. Late September 2026, a road course in Japan. The women's...
Athletics3:22:20 — The Number That Fits No Distance, Yet Won a GoldThree hours, twenty-two minutes, twenty seconds. 3:22:20. For eight years now...
AthleticsEliud Kipchoge at 41: Melbourne Marathon Win — Is the Stopwatch Really a Witness, or Just a Course Record Story?As Eliud Kipchoge waved to the crowd entering the Melbourne Cricket Ground, m...
AthleticsThe Fifth Place Is in the Record, the Time Is Not: What Naomi Korir's Final Does Not BalanceNaomi Korir. Fifth. The Commonwealth Games final, Glasgow. Three facts fit in...
AthleticsAsian Games Shoe Controversy: Kazakhstan’s Yasmina Loses Gold as China Takes Gold and Silver, Japan Claims BronzeAsian Games Shoe Controversy: A Medal Table Rewritten After the Finish Line...
AthleticsThe Blank Qualifying Column: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Empty Start ListThe entry list arrived at 11:20 p.m. I opened it at a Chattogram desk with on...
AthleticsThe Lap Nobody Timed: Bangladesh Athletics and the Other Half of the RecordI set the results sheet of the National Athletics Championships on the table...
AthleticsBangladesh Athletics Decline Is a Stopwatch Problem, Not an Athlete ProblemThe synthetic track at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium is the country's...
AthleticsWhat 2:41:55 Says: Vietnam's Marathon Boom Has Crowds, Not DepthNine years on a commentary desk have given me one habit: before I read a...
AthleticsThe Transfer With No Price Tag: Bangladesh Athletics' Silent MarketThe men's 100m final at the National Athletics Championships ended a little...
AthleticsTestimony of an Empty Column: When the Stopwatch Remembers What the Record Book Refuses ToOctober 2026, the media gallery at Bangabandhu National Stadium. The meet...
AthleticsThe Half of the Race Nobody Ever Timed: Accounting for Women's Lost Time in Bangladeshi AthleticsI sat down with the results sheet of the National Athletics Championships one...
AthleticsThe Testimony of Empty Cells: Bangladesh Athletics' Real Gap Sits in Its Data ChainThe report opened like a wrong file. Twelve pages of analysis, nine chapters,...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe's Legacy Bet and Africa's First World ChampionshipsNairobi, London and Rome — when three city names share one sentence, the refl...
AthleticsKenya's Doping Fight: How a Ledger of 140+ Sanctions Interrogates the "Progress" ClaimAt that October press briefing in Nairobi, as World Athletics president...
AthleticsProgress in Kenya's Anti-Doping Fight as 2029 World Championships Preparation BeginsAt a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, World Athletics President Sebastian...
AthleticsTwo Halves of a Javelin: 92.62 in the Sponsor's Light, and the Number Nobody Wrote DownLast week a press release landed in my inbox. CIC's logo at the top, a javeli...
AthleticsEmpty Stadiums, Full Ledgers: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Sprint Inheritance and the Missing PipelineEmpty Stadiums, Full Ledgers: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Sprint Inheritan...
Athletics9.90 Seconds and an Empty Wind Box: Auditing the Asian Games Record RainWhen the electronic board in Aichi-Nagoya flashed 9.90, my mind went back to ...
AthleticsEliud Kipchoge at 41: Melbourne Marathon Win — Is the Stopwatch Really a Witness, or Just a Course Record Story?As Eliud Kipchoge waved to the crowd entering the Melbourne Cricket Ground, m...
AthleticsThe Fifth Place Is in the Record, the Time Is Not: What Naomi Korir's Final Does Not BalanceNaomi Korir. Fifth. The Commonwealth Games final, Glasgow. Three facts fit in...
AthleticsAsian Games Shoe Controversy: Kazakhstan’s Yasmina Loses Gold as China Takes Gold and Silver, Japan Claims BronzeAsian Games Shoe Controversy: A Medal Table Rewritten After the Finish Line...
AthleticsThe Blank Qualifying Column: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Empty Start ListThe entry list arrived at 11:20 p.m. I opened it at a Chattogram desk with on...
AthleticsThe Lap Nobody Timed: Bangladesh Athletics and the Other Half of the RecordI set the results sheet of the National Athletics Championships on the table...
AthleticsBangladesh Athletics Decline Is a Stopwatch Problem, Not an Athlete ProblemThe synthetic track at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium is the country's...
AthleticsWhat 2:41:55 Says: Vietnam's Marathon Boom Has Crowds, Not DepthNine years on a commentary desk have given me one habit: before I read a...
AthleticsThe Transfer With No Price Tag: Bangladesh Athletics' Silent MarketThe men's 100m final at the National Athletics Championships ended a little...
AthleticsTestimony of an Empty Column: When the Stopwatch Remembers What the Record Book Refuses ToOctober 2026, the media gallery at Bangabandhu National Stadium. The meet...
AthleticsThe Half of the Race Nobody Ever Timed: Accounting for Women's Lost Time in Bangladeshi AthleticsI sat down with the results sheet of the National Athletics Championships one...
AthleticsThe Testimony of Empty Cells: Bangladesh Athletics' Real Gap Sits in Its Data ChainThe report opened like a wrong file. Twelve pages of analysis, nine chapters,...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe's Legacy Bet and Africa's First World ChampionshipsNairobi, London and Rome — when three city names share one sentence, the refl...
AthleticsKenya's Doping Fight: How a Ledger of 140+ Sanctions Interrogates the "Progress" ClaimAt that October press briefing in Nairobi, as World Athletics president...
AthleticsProgress in Kenya's Anti-Doping Fight as 2029 World Championships Preparation BeginsAt a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, World Athletics President Sebastian...
AthleticsTwo Halves of a Javelin: 92.62 in the Sponsor's Light, and the Number Nobody Wrote DownLast week a press release landed in my inbox. CIC's logo at the top, a javeli...
AthleticsEmpty Stadiums, Full Ledgers: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Sprint Inheritance and the Missing PipelineEmpty Stadiums, Full Ledgers: Auditing Bangladesh Athletics' Sprint Inheritan...
Athletics9.90 Seconds and an Empty Wind Box: Auditing the Asian Games Record RainWhen the electronic board in Aichi-Nagoya flashed 9.90, my mind went back to ...