Athletics
27 Meet Records in Diyagama: Inside the Sri Lankan Corporate Athletics Championship That MAS Holdings Owns2026-10-17Three days at Diyagama, some thirty kilometres outside Colombo, closed with 2...
The Injury Verdict Reader and the Right to Say 'Insufficient Data'2026-10-16Three in the morning on August 14, 2026, my phone buzzed. An assistant coach ...
Coe says Kenya's doping fight is improving ahead of the 2029 World Athletics Championships2026-10-15In October, Sebastian Coe stood before the press and spoke about Nairobi. He...
Mile 18, a Kiss, and the Cardiac-Screening Blind Spot of Mass-Marathon Running2026-10-10At mile 18 of the Portland Marathon, a woman stood at the roadside and reache...
Nine Dimensions, Nine Blanks: What's Missing in Women's Athletics DataThere are nine rows on the screen in front of me. Each one has a notes field,...
MAS Holdings and the 41st Mercantile title: 548 points, 27 meet records and a data gapAt Diyagama, the scoreboard of the 41st Mercantile Athletics Championship...
Zhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, $700,000 and the Price of a Leave SlipXi'an, the morning of 18 October 2026. The clock above the finish line stoppe...
The Empty Wind Column: When Athletics Has No One to Keep the RecordOn the concrete wall of a stadium on the outskirts of Nairobi, a sheet of...
When an Empty Results Table Reads Like a Clean ReportEleven at night, and only one screen is still lit on the sports desk. On it...
Carrying a wife 200 metres in over three minutes: the hidden data layer behind the Cần Giờ raceCần Giờ, a straight course, no incline, no headwind. A 34-year-old man carrie...
2:47:52 in Hanoi: Six Minutes Cut, Twenty Minutes Still Owed01:30 on a Sunday morning in Hanoi. The 42.195 km field left the start line i...
2:47:52 and the Real Ceiling of Vietnamese MarathonWhen Pham Thi Hong Le crossed the line at 2:47:52 at VPIM 2026 (VPBank Hanoi...
VPIM 2026: A Course Record Drops 6 Minutes 5 Seconds, and the Variables Nobody Published01:30. The start gate sits on Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem Lake has not...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela Provisional Suspension: When an Olympic Silver Medal Cannot Cover a Whereabouts GapCyrena Samba-Mayela, the French 100m hurdler who won silver at the Paris 2026...
27 Meet Records in Diyagama: Inside the Sri Lankan Corporate Athletics Championship That MAS Holdings OwnsThree days at Diyagama, some thirty kilometres outside Colombo, closed with 2...
1:39:00 in San Sebastián: Reading Amber Heard's Half Marathon Through the Mass-Participation Data LensRain over Donostia. Umbrellas lined both sides of the course in a long band o...
Yan Ziyi's Single Throw and the Silence Beyond the Seventy-Metre LineRain fell on the javelin runway at Aichi-Nagoya. An eighteen-year-old girl...
Data Voids and the Discipline of Verification in Sports Injury ReportingAt two in the morning on 8 June 2026, I sat in front of a spreadsheet with 31...
The Injury Verdict Reader and the Right to Say 'Insufficient Data'Three in the morning on August 14, 2026, my phone buzzed. An assistant coach ...
Coe says Kenya's doping fight is improving ahead of the 2029 World Athletics ChampionshipsIn October, Sebastian Coe stood before the press and spoke about Nairobi. He...
Nairobi 2029: Kenya's Athletics Gets a Fateful Ticket Amid the Doping StormWhen Sebastian Coe stepped onto the podium in Nairobi, he did not speak about...
The Death at Kilometer 21 of Seoul Race 2026: The Gap Between the Amateur Running Boom and Medical Safety Infrastructure08:49, the morning of October 11, on the road leading into Seoul Plaza, less...
Seoul Race 2026: Death at Kilometer 21 and the Medical Infrastructure Gap of the Running Boom8:49 a.m., Sunday, October 11, central Seoul. At kilometer 21.0975 of the hal...
92.62 Metres Without Wind: Sri Lanka's Javelin Record and the Missing SourceOn the scoreboard in Rome, the number 92.62 appeared. No wind reading. No nam...
Sri Lanka's 92.62m Javelin and the Missing Wind ReadingRome, a summer evening. The javelin plants itself in the grass, the judge...
Kipchoge Wins Melbourne Marathon 2026: A Real Victory, a Record Partly Shaped by the OrganisersThe most memorable moment of the 2026 Melbourne Marathon did not come at the...
Mile 20 in Portland: Trey Lara, the Kiss at Mile 18, and the Cardiac-Screening Gap in Mass MarathonsAt the 18th mile of the Portland Marathon, Trey Lara's wife ran up to him and...
Mile 18, a Kiss, and the Cardiac-Screening Blind Spot of Mass-Marathon RunningAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon, a woman stood at the roadside and reache...
The Long Road of Women's Football: Tactics, Fitness and the Silences of a SeasonIntroduction In the last three matches, the PPDA index — the number of passes...
The Empty Report and the Integrity Test of Sports DataOn the screen sits a fully framed report: nine analytical dimensions, clear...
