Athletics
The Results Sheet With No Time Column: Reading India's Athletics Day Six in Aichi-Nagoya2026-09-26I read results sheets from the back — not from the medal list, but from the...
4.15 Metres and a Time Nobody Wrote Down: The Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day Six2026-09-26The first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why nobody else had. I...
Why 2:41:55 Ranks 69th in Vietnam: A Marathon Boom With a Narrow Elite Funnel2026-09-27At three in the morning on the roads of Vinh there is nothing but headlamp...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: Olympic Silver Medalist Given Temporary Suspension, Questions the AIU Has Yet to Answer2026-09-26When the name of Cyrena Samba-Mayela first surfaced from an out-of-competitio...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: An Olympic Silver, a Whereabouts Case, and the Stopwatch's Quiet Testimony2026-09-26PARIS — In the Stade de France, the night retained a single number for me: th...
AthleticsWhy 2:41:55 Ranks 69th in Vietnam: A Marathon Boom With a Narrow Elite FunnelAt three in the morning on the roads of Vinh there is nothing but headlamp...
AthleticsThe Results Sheet With No Time Column: Reading India's Athletics Day Six in Aichi-NagoyaI read results sheets from the back — not from the medal list, but from the...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: Olympic Silver Medalist Given Temporary Suspension, Questions the AIU Has Yet to AnswerWhen the name of Cyrena Samba-Mayela first surfaced from an out-of-competitio...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: An Olympic Silver, a Whereabouts Case, and the Stopwatch's Quiet TestimonyPARIS — In the Stade de France, the night retained a single number for me: th...
AthleticsThe Samba-Mayela Case: No Stopwatch, Only a September 18 Date and a LedgerSeptember 18. Timing sheets do not carry that kind of date. I usually go...
AthleticsWind Before the Decimal: Puripol Boonson's Unfinished 9.91 LedgerNagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium. The electronic board lit up with a number in...
AthleticsThe September 18 Clock: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Closing Door to Los AngelesHook On Friday morning I opened the file before I read the news, because that...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026, Day 6: A Pole Vault 'First' and the Arithmetic Hole in the 10,000mMy stream was running on a phone. The moment that arrived on screen pulled up...
Athletics4.15 Metres and a Time Nobody Wrote Down: The Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day SixThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why nobody else had. I...
Athletics9.91 Seconds and One Empty Cell: Nagoya's Semifinal and the Record the Ledger Has Not Yet AcceptedPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. Semifinal one. Puripol Boonson comes out of th...
AthleticsNo Positive Test, Still Suspended: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Uncounted Half of AthleticsLast Friday I set my cup of tea down halfway through a three-line notice on m...
AthleticsA Whereabouts Case, a Doping Shadow: What Can and Cannot Be Measured in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's SuspensionHook: The Report in Which the Stopwatch Says Nothing When the Athletics...