Athletics
MAS's 8th Consecutive Title: Structural Indicators in Corporate Athletics
Forty Millimetres: A One-Day-Late Audit of the Asian Games Race Walk Verdict
Vietnam's Ledger, Bangladesh's Mirror: The List Where Athletics Has No Number
From Ormenio to Gavdos: Five Sports, Twelve Days, and the Invisible Ledger of One Human Body
The Lap Nobody Timed: The Half-Ledger of Bangladesh Athletics
Nairobi 2029: Inside 140 Sanctions, Who Measures the ProgressI began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. At the...
Medals Without Times: Auditing India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15m in the women's pole vault. India's first-eve...
The Empty Column Beside 70.46 Metres: China's Youth and the Arithmetic of Measurement at Nagoya 2026When Yan Ziyi's first attempt landed on the javelin runway in Nagoya, the...
Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record: What 2:09:10 Actually ProvesWhen Eliud Kipchoge emerged from the tunnel at the Melbourne Cricket Ground a...
The Stopwatch Behind 2:09:10: The Eight-Minute Gap Between Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record and the 'Still Peaking' ClaimMelbourne's Albert Park circuit, where Formula One cars take their bends year...
The Recordless Track: Sports Data Credibility and the Blockchain QuestionIt is half past eight at night. The floodlights at Dhaka's Outer Stadium are...
From Timing Sheets to Blockchain: The Record That Does Not Exist Without a TimestampLast week I opened an analysis file and found an empty cell. No event, no mar...
The Empty File: The Audit That Found Nothing, and Why That Is the EvidenceThe sheet that reached me had nine sections, and every cell held a single...
Testimony of an Empty File: The Analysis Sheet With No NumbersI opened the file at two in the morning in my Delhi flat. Nine sections. At t...
From an Empty Result Sheet to the Blockchain: Who Writes a Sporting Record, and Who Verifies It?The result sheet landed in my hand and my first thought was that the printer...
Placings Without Numbers: Vietnam's Athletics Ledger from the Aichi-Nagoya TrackSeptember 29, 2026. From the track at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya,...
No Track, But a Ledger: The Quiet Accounting of Bangladesh AthleticsIn late 2026, when Shah Alam was appointed general secretary of the Banglades...
A Sky Without Stars: Vietnam's Quiet Fall at the Asian Games and the Half Nobody Ever CountedA worn results sheet still hangs from the right corner of my desk. It is the...
The Stopwatch Ledger: Vietnam's Star Drought on an Empty Asian Games TrackI watched the 2026 Jakarta Asian Games 400m hurdles final at two in the...
MAS's 8th Consecutive Title: Structural Indicators in Corporate AthleticsThe dominance of MAS Holdings in the Mercantile Athletics Championship of Sri...
Forty Millimetres: A One-Day-Late Audit of the Asian Games Race Walk VerdictThe medal ceremony photo was already circulating. The flag had gone up. Then...
Vietnam's Ledger, Bangladesh's Mirror: The List Where Athletics Has No NumberTen days into the Asian Games, Vietnam's sports leadership met the press with...
From Ormenio to Gavdos: Five Sports, Twelve Days, and the Invisible Ledger of One Human BodyFor a fortnight I have kept two corners of the Greek map side by side on my...
The Lap Nobody Timed: The Half-Ledger of Bangladesh AthleticsIn the ground-floor room under the west gallery of the National Stadium, Apri...
Berlin's 68 Seconds: Assefa's Near-Miss and a Record Still on ProbationThe scoreboard at 40 kilometres was not showing an ordinary race. Tigst Assef...
9.91 Seconds and the Empty Column on the Right9.91 Seconds and the Empty Column on the Right When 9.91 flashed on the...
The 9.91 Ledger: Thailand's Sprint Record Still Waiting on the Wind GaugeAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium the block reaction was logged at 0.158 seconds —...
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Whereabouts Ledger and the Misreading of DopingSeptember 18. Cyrena Samba-Mayela is 25. In the Paris 2026 final she took...
9.91 Seconds and a Missing Number: The Thai Sprint Record That Isn't Verified YetWhen the timing board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya flashed 9.91, I was...
The Whereabouts Ledger: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension, the Language of Anti-Doping, and the Accounting of a Hurdles SeasonThe first thing I did was count. The second was to wonder why nobody else had...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Whereabouts Ledger: The Number Nobody Is SayingSeptember 18. Back from the studio in Chattogram, past half past eleven, I...
Medals Without Times: Auditing India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15m in the women's pole vault. India's first-eve...
The Empty Column Beside 70.46 Metres: China's Youth and the Arithmetic of Measurement at Nagoya 2026When Yan Ziyi's first attempt landed on the javelin runway in Nagoya, the...
Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record: What 2:09:10 Actually ProvesWhen Eliud Kipchoge emerged from the tunnel at the Melbourne Cricket Ground a...
The Stopwatch Behind 2:09:10: The Eight-Minute Gap Between Kipchoge's Melbourne Course Record and the 'Still Peaking' ClaimMelbourne's Albert Park circuit, where Formula One cars take their bends year...
The Recordless Track: Sports Data Credibility and the Blockchain QuestionIt is half past eight at night. The floodlights at Dhaka's Outer Stadium are...
From Timing Sheets to Blockchain: The Record That Does Not Exist Without a TimestampLast week I opened an analysis file and found an empty cell. No event, no mar...
The Empty File: The Audit That Found Nothing, and Why That Is the EvidenceThe sheet that reached me had nine sections, and every cell held a single...
Testimony of an Empty File: The Analysis Sheet With No NumbersI opened the file at two in the morning in my Delhi flat. Nine sections. At t...
From an Empty Result Sheet to the Blockchain: Who Writes a Sporting Record, and Who Verifies It?The result sheet landed in my hand and my first thought was that the printer...
Placings Without Numbers: Vietnam's Athletics Ledger from the Aichi-Nagoya TrackSeptember 29, 2026. From the track at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya,...
No Track, But a Ledger: The Quiet Accounting of Bangladesh AthleticsIn late 2026, when Shah Alam was appointed general secretary of the Banglades...
A Sky Without Stars: Vietnam's Quiet Fall at the Asian Games and the Half Nobody Ever CountedA worn results sheet still hangs from the right corner of my desk. It is the...
The Stopwatch Ledger: Vietnam's Star Drought on an Empty Asian Games TrackI watched the 2026 Jakarta Asian Games 400m hurdles final at two in the...
MAS's 8th Consecutive Title: Structural Indicators in Corporate AthleticsThe dominance of MAS Holdings in the Mercantile Athletics Championship of Sri...
Forty Millimetres: A One-Day-Late Audit of the Asian Games Race Walk VerdictThe medal ceremony photo was already circulating. The flag had gone up. Then...
Vietnam's Ledger, Bangladesh's Mirror: The List Where Athletics Has No NumberTen days into the Asian Games, Vietnam's sports leadership met the press with...
From Ormenio to Gavdos: Five Sports, Twelve Days, and the Invisible Ledger of One Human BodyFor a fortnight I have kept two corners of the Greek map side by side on my...
The Lap Nobody Timed: The Half-Ledger of Bangladesh AthleticsIn the ground-floor room under the west gallery of the National Stadium, Apri...
Berlin's 68 Seconds: Assefa's Near-Miss and a Record Still on ProbationThe scoreboard at 40 kilometres was not showing an ordinary race. Tigst Assef...
9.91 Seconds and the Empty Column on the Right9.91 Seconds and the Empty Column on the Right When 9.91 flashed on the...
The 9.91 Ledger: Thailand's Sprint Record Still Waiting on the Wind GaugeAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium the block reaction was logged at 0.158 seconds —...
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Whereabouts Ledger and the Misreading of DopingSeptember 18. Cyrena Samba-Mayela is 25. In the Paris 2026 final she took...
9.91 Seconds and a Missing Number: The Thai Sprint Record That Isn't Verified YetWhen the timing board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya flashed 9.91, I was...
The Whereabouts Ledger: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension, the Language of Anti-Doping, and the Accounting of a Hurdles SeasonThe first thing I did was count. The second was to wonder why nobody else had...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Whereabouts Ledger: The Number Nobody Is SayingSeptember 18. Back from the studio in Chattogram, past half past eleven, I...