Athletics
The Time Nobody Wrote Down: Naomi Korir's Fistula, Glasgow's 'Mile' and an Unfinished Result Sheet2026-10-29I sat with a results sheet last week far longer than it deserved. Fifth place...
Peres Jepchirchir's Suspension: What 2:18:31 Doesn't Say, and What the Date Conceals2026-10-24The world record line from Chicago reads 2:09:56 (Ruth Chepngetich, 2026 —...
32 Minutes 32 Seconds: How Sindh's First Gold Exposed the Empty Audit of Pakistan's Race Walking2026-10-2232 minutes 32.40 seconds. That was the number placed beside Mahnoor Fatima's...
Nine Drawers, Zero Numbers: The Athletics File Bangladesh Never Kept2026-10-22The file reached my desk with nine columns. Each column carried a heading —...
Shoe Rule Reverses Asian Games Medal Order as Kazakhstan Win Is Voided and Host Japan Gains BronzeHook Yasmina Toksanbaeva of Kazakhstan crossed the finish line first in the...
The Empty Cell Is the Evidence: What Bangladesh's Sprint Ledger Never Wrote DownThe results sheet from last month's National Championships reached me, and my...
India's Running and Pole Vault Bronze at the Asian Games: Historic First or Competitive Reality?I learned to distrust the dust in the Rajshahi wind, where the name of Shah...
One-Thousandth of a Point: Vietnam's Asian Games Ledger and Bangladesh's Empty LanesTrinh Thu Vinh is standing on the firing line. Ten-metre air pistol, mixed...
Is Kipchoge's Melbourne 'Course Record' Proof of Revival or Another Page in the Legacy Ledger?Eliud Kipchoge's winning time at the Melbourne Marathon was 2:09:10. The...
Sole Thickness: The Story of a Lost Asian Games Gold in One Night's SleepI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. Last week, while...
Shock over medal stripping: host Japan suddenly gets a medal, procedure and timing under questionA rare administrative controversy has erupted around the women's marathon rac...
The 2:24:36 That Didn't Make the Headline: A New York Marathon Coverage LedgerA wire copy landed on my desk with one name in the headline: Almgren. The fir...
Swede Almgren Wins New York Marathon on DebutA champion on his very first marathon. Sweden's Almgren won the New York City...
The Empty Cell Is the Evidence: What Bangladesh's Sprint Ledger Never Wrote DownThe results sheet from last month's National Championships reached me, and my...
India's Running and Pole Vault Bronze at the Asian Games: Historic First or Competitive Reality?I learned to distrust the dust in the Rajshahi wind, where the name of Shah...
One-Thousandth of a Point: Vietnam's Asian Games Ledger and Bangladesh's Empty LanesTrinh Thu Vinh is standing on the firing line. Ten-metre air pistol, mixed...
Is Kipchoge's Melbourne 'Course Record' Proof of Revival or Another Page in the Legacy Ledger?Eliud Kipchoge's winning time at the Melbourne Marathon was 2:09:10. The...
Sole Thickness: The Story of a Lost Asian Games Gold in One Night's SleepI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. Last week, while...
Shock over medal stripping: host Japan suddenly gets a medal, procedure and timing under questionA rare administrative controversy has erupted around the women's marathon rac...
The 2:24:36 That Didn't Make the Headline: A New York Marathon Coverage LedgerA wire copy landed on my desk with one name in the headline: Almgren. The fir...
Swede Almgren Wins New York Marathon on DebutA champion on his very first marathon. Sweden's Almgren won the New York City...