Athletics
Where 69th Place Stands: Vietnam's Marathon Festival and the Hollow Elite Pipeline
The Other Half of 9.91: Where a Thai Teenager's Record Stops on the Nagoya Track
Thailand's 9.91 Seconds: Asia Has a New Sprint King, But the Ledger Is Still Incomplete
September 18: The Case With No Clock, Only Dates
Asian Games 2026 Athletics: 4.15m, 17.17m — and the Times Nobody Wrote Down
Medals Without Clock Readings: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and an Incomplete Ledger
AthleticsWhere 69th Place Stands: Vietnam's Marathon Festival and the Hollow Elite PipelineAt three in the morning, on the coastal road out of Vinh, a few hundred pairs...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026 Athletics: 4.15m, 17.17m — and the Times Nobody Wrote DownThe Day 6 results sheet landed on my desk at half past nine at night. Followi...
AthleticsMedals Without Clock Readings: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and an Incomplete LedgerThe Day 6 results sheet from the Asian Games sat in front of me for a long...
AthleticsThe Half Hidden Beneath 4.15 Metres: India's Day Six Medals and the Laps Nobody TimedThe wind over the pole vault apron in Aichi-Nagoya was light, and the bar...
AthleticsFull Stadium, Empty Column: The Athletics Results Sheet Asian Games Day 6 Never WroteI still keep that spreadsheet — 140 rows, each row carrying a time and, in...
AthleticsWhereabouts Is Not Doping: The Missing Number in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's FileOn the night of August 10, 2026, the women's 100m hurdles final at the Stade ...
AthleticsThree Hundredths: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Unseen Arithmetic of HurdlesThree Hundredths: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Unseen...
AthleticsThe Other Half of 9.91: Where a Thai Teenager's Record Stops on the Nagoya TrackHook The semifinal results sheet from Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium lay open...
AthleticsThe 4.15 Metre Bar and a Missing Clock: What India's Day 6 Athletics Results at the Asian Games Don't SayThe first thing you notice on the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya is a...
AthleticsThailand's 9.91 Seconds: Asia Has a New Sprint King, But the Ledger Is Still IncompleteNagoya, Japan. Paloma Mizuho Stadium. The late-September humidity had not...
Athletics4.15 Metres, the Missing Timing and the Shadow of 28 Golds: What India's Athletics on Day 6 of the 2026 Asian Games Didn't ShowThe men's 10,000m final ended on the evening of Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya, and th...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: A Provisional Suspension, Three Missing Numbers, and the Arithmetic of a Hurdles SeasonSeptember 18. One date, and Cyrena Samba-Mayela's entire career currently sit...
AthleticsThe Incomplete Ledger of Day Six: Four Indian Medals, Zero TimesThe ledger has a blank column. Gulveer Singh won silver in the men's 10,000m ...
Athletics4.15m and 17.17m: An Audit of the Asian Games ‘Historic’ BronzesOn Day 6 of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, India's athletics contingent...
AthleticsSeptember 18: The Case With No Clock, Only DatesSeptember 18. Among all the dates stacked in my notebook over the past seven...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: The Ledger You Read Before the Blocks Are ClearedNobody steps out of the blocks. The starter says “on your marks,” then either...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026 Athletics: 4.15m, 17.17m — and the Times Nobody Wrote DownThe Day 6 results sheet landed on my desk at half past nine at night. Followi...
AthleticsMedals Without Clock Readings: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and an Incomplete LedgerThe Day 6 results sheet from the Asian Games sat in front of me for a long...
AthleticsThe Half Hidden Beneath 4.15 Metres: India's Day Six Medals and the Laps Nobody TimedThe wind over the pole vault apron in Aichi-Nagoya was light, and the bar...
AthleticsFull Stadium, Empty Column: The Athletics Results Sheet Asian Games Day 6 Never WroteI still keep that spreadsheet — 140 rows, each row carrying a time and, in...
AthleticsWhereabouts Is Not Doping: The Missing Number in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's FileOn the night of August 10, 2026, the women's 100m hurdles final at the Stade ...
AthleticsThree Hundredths: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Unseen Arithmetic of HurdlesThree Hundredths: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Unseen...
AthleticsThe Other Half of 9.91: Where a Thai Teenager's Record Stops on the Nagoya TrackHook The semifinal results sheet from Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium lay open...
AthleticsThe 4.15 Metre Bar and a Missing Clock: What India's Day 6 Athletics Results at the Asian Games Don't SayThe first thing you notice on the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya is a...
AthleticsThailand's 9.91 Seconds: Asia Has a New Sprint King, But the Ledger Is Still IncompleteNagoya, Japan. Paloma Mizuho Stadium. The late-September humidity had not...
Athletics4.15 Metres, the Missing Timing and the Shadow of 28 Golds: What India's Athletics on Day 6 of the 2026 Asian Games Didn't ShowThe men's 10,000m final ended on the evening of Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya, and th...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: A Provisional Suspension, Three Missing Numbers, and the Arithmetic of a Hurdles SeasonSeptember 18. One date, and Cyrena Samba-Mayela's entire career currently sit...
AthleticsThe Incomplete Ledger of Day Six: Four Indian Medals, Zero TimesThe ledger has a blank column. Gulveer Singh won silver in the men's 10,000m ...
Athletics4.15m and 17.17m: An Audit of the Asian Games ‘Historic’ BronzesOn Day 6 of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, India's athletics contingent...
AthleticsSeptember 18: The Case With No Clock, Only DatesSeptember 18. Among all the dates stacked in my notebook over the past seven...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: The Ledger You Read Before the Blocks Are ClearedNobody steps out of the blocks. The starter says “on your marks,” then either...