Athletics
AthleticsThe Track Without Medals: When Vietnamese Athletics Data Goes BlankThe Track Without Medals: When Vietnamese Athletics Data Goes Blank I sat in...
AthleticsNine Analytical Dimensions, Zero Data Points: When an Athletics Report Comes Back BlankTwenty-five years of watching athletics taught me one thing about the silence...
AthleticsThe Data Void on the Track: When Athletics Reporting Crosses the Line Before the StopwatchThe sheet of paper on my desk in Shanghai has twelve lines, and all twelve co...
AthleticsThe Shoe That Wasn't on the List: How an Equipment Rule Stripped an Asian Games GoldThat morning, on the coastal road course, a Kazakh athlete crossed the line...
AthleticsAsiad 20, September 29: Sepak Takraw Takes Gold While Vietnam's Athletics Finishes Without a Single Recorded Time19:05, the 400-metre oval. Four Vietnamese men walked into the 4x400m relay...
Athletics12 Days, 5 Sports, 1 Man: Giorgos Tsianos' Traverse of Greece and What Is Actually Being MeasuredOn the twelfth day, at the southernmost tip of Europe, a man walked out of th...
Athletics2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Two Hanoi Course Records and What the Leaderboard Does Not Say1:30 a.m. On the span of Long Bien Bridge, the first sound is rubber soles...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: 2:47:52, 2:31:49 and the Twenty-Minute Gap to World StandardAt 01:30 the starter's horn goes for the 42.195km. Hanoi is dry, cool, still ...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Lowers Course Record to 2:47:52 as Huynh Anh Khoi Defends Men's Title01:30, and Hanoi is still wet with mist. On the ramp up to Long Bien Bridge,...
AthleticsFrom Albuquerque 2026 to Sydney 2026: How Athletics Apparel Became the Language of SpeedAlbuquerque indoor arena, February 2026. Evelyn Ashford steps onto the 60-yar...
AthleticsWorld Athletics Ultimate Championship: One Trophy, 10 Million Dollars and the Governing Body's Bet on ItselfThis September in Budapest, the track will be laid in black — a colour chosen...
AthleticsNagoya 2026 Race Walking: How an Unlisted Shoe Changed Hands for a Gold MedalAt the finish line of the 42.195 km race walk in Nagoya, the winner beat the...
AthleticsWomen's Sport's Data Void: When the System Forgets Her NameOn a March morning in 2026, I reopened an athletics database I had been...
AthleticsThe Data Void in Kenyan Women's Athletics and the Races Nobody RecordedThe results sheet came out of the printer at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi on a Ju...


