Athletics
Zero Input, Zero Analysis: The Silent Failure of a Sports Data Pipeline and the Limits of Journalism
Nagoya 2026: The Two Athletics Marks That Could Rewrite History, and the One That Still Needs Proof
92.62 Metres and an Empty Cell: The Verification Questions Behind Sri Lanka's New Javelin Star
The Whereabouts Case Against Samba-Mayela: Two Years of Risk, and the Number Missing From the Ledger
AthleticsNaomi Korir Reduced Her Running Because of Urine Leakage: Health, Athletics and the Need for VerificationThe most important time in Naomi Korir’s running story is not a lap split. Th...
AthleticsZero Input, Zero Analysis: The Silent Failure of a Sports Data Pipeline and the Limits of JournalismSports journalism rests on verifiable facts. Without a result, an athlete's...
AthleticsNagoya 2026: The Two Athletics Marks That Could Rewrite History, and the One That Still Needs ProofI start every match report from the shot map, not the scoreline. For me, the...
AthleticsKenya's Doping Fight: Does Coe's 'Progress' Add Up Before the 2029 World Championships?The sentence Sebastian Coe stood behind after Nairobi was awarded the 2029...
AthleticsThe Shoe Mark: How an Asian Games Race-Walk Gold Was Reassigned on PaperWhen Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish line on the streets of Nagoya aft...
AthleticsThe Report That Breaks No Records, Only Trust: A Full Verification of a Viral Asian Sprinting ClaimIntroduction: One Report, Two "Records", and Three Questions For several week...
AthleticsCounting the Other Half: Two Champions at the New York Marathon, One HeadlineSeven seconds. That was all that separated the top three women at the New Yor...
AthleticsGold Stripped Over Shoes: Kazakh Race Walker's Asian Games Medal Annulment and Its ComplicationsThe gold medal of Kazakhstan's Yasmina Toxanbayeva at the Asian Games women's...
AthleticsA £3m Prize Fund: Europe's Reform, and the Blank Line in Our LedgerThe last evening in Birmingham is still sharp in the memory. At the 2026...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026: What Lies Behind India's 'Historic' Athletics Medals on Day 6The Day 6 athletics results at the Asian Games 2026 make it seem as though...
Athletics548 Points at Diyagama: MAS's Eighth Title and the Quiet Structure of Sri Lankan Mercantile AthleticsA clip-file lives in my tribune bag. Inside it is the carbon copy of a result...
AthleticsThe Mirror of Records Does Not Reflect the Truth: The Puripol-Chen Yujie Controversy and the Crisis of Athletics MediaIn the final week of September, a report circulated citing Thailand's Khaosod...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Auditing the Ledger Behind Africa's First World ChampionshipsLast month the World Athletics Council awarded the 2029 World Championships t...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Kenya's Doping Ledger, Coe's Progress Claim and an Unfinished RecordOn 14 October in Nairobi, under a hall's lights and beside a World Athletics...
AthleticsStage-2 Athletics Analysis Confronts a Pipeline Failure: No Genuine Conclusion Is Possible from Empty InputA recent athletics data-analysis process has brought to light an incident tha...
AthleticsKenya's 140+ Sanctions and Nairobi 2029: The Ledger With No DatesNAIROBI, October 14. Sebastian Coe sits in front of the microphones and says...
Athletics92.62 Metres and an Empty Cell: The Verification Questions Behind Sri Lanka's New Javelin StarOn an afternoon in Rome, under the floodlights, the javelin stuck in the grou...
AthleticsChicago's Flat Track and the Record Chain: Auditing Seven World RecordsAt the 30-kilometre mark in Chicago, the pacemakers step off the curb, and in...
Athletics2:09:10 at 41, and 'Still Peaking': A Stopwatch Forensics of Kipchoge's Melbourne Course RecordMelbourne's 42.195 kilometres ended inside the MCG. Before he reached the lin...
Athletics2:41:55 and Vietnam's 69th Place: The 'Elite' Illusion of the Nghệ An MarathonOn the coastal road of Vinh city, in the last stretch of September, two runne...
Athletics0.001 Points and Gold Thirst: Vietnam's Asian Games Arithmetic, Where Half the Athletes Stay UnnamedWomen's vault missed bronze by exactly 0.001 points. Men's pommel horse fell...
AthleticsBangladesh Athletics' Invisible Crisis: From Currency to Mechanism, From Records to BleedingWhen I was doing frame-by-frame analysis of Usain Bolt's torn hamstring at th...
AthleticsThree Names, Zero Numbers: The Ledger Nobody Wrote in the Asian Games DiaryThe diary entry for 27 September. A daily page from a continental multi-sport...
AthleticsFrom Eight Thousand Five Hundred to One Thousand: What Is the Colombo Marathon's 'Revival' Number Really Saying?I counted the other half, and the number kept rewriting itself. In 2026, some...
Athletics20th LSR Colombo Marathon: Recovery or Marketing? A Deep AnalysisI held my first results sheet in Dhaka in 2026. Since then I have learned — t...
AthleticsVietnam Women's Athletics at the Asian Games: The Fall of a Golden Era, the Numbers I Counted Myself, and the Lap No One TimedWhen Nguyễn Thị Oanh lined up for the 3000m steeplechase at the 2026...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The 20th Edition's 'Recovery' Story vs a Participation Target of Just 12% of the 2026 PeakThe first LSR Colombo Marathon began in 2026 at the Galle Dutch Fort with 356...
AthleticsZero Input, Zero Analysis: The Silent Failure of a Sports Data Pipeline and the Limits of JournalismSports journalism rests on verifiable facts. Without a result, an athlete's...
AthleticsNagoya 2026: The Two Athletics Marks That Could Rewrite History, and the One That Still Needs ProofI start every match report from the shot map, not the scoreline. For me, the...
AthleticsKenya's Doping Fight: Does Coe's 'Progress' Add Up Before the 2029 World Championships?The sentence Sebastian Coe stood behind after Nairobi was awarded the 2029...
AthleticsThe Shoe Mark: How an Asian Games Race-Walk Gold Was Reassigned on PaperWhen Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish line on the streets of Nagoya aft...
AthleticsThe Report That Breaks No Records, Only Trust: A Full Verification of a Viral Asian Sprinting ClaimIntroduction: One Report, Two "Records", and Three Questions For several week...
AthleticsCounting the Other Half: Two Champions at the New York Marathon, One HeadlineSeven seconds. That was all that separated the top three women at the New Yor...
AthleticsGold Stripped Over Shoes: Kazakh Race Walker's Asian Games Medal Annulment and Its ComplicationsThe gold medal of Kazakhstan's Yasmina Toxanbayeva at the Asian Games women's...
AthleticsA £3m Prize Fund: Europe's Reform, and the Blank Line in Our LedgerThe last evening in Birmingham is still sharp in the memory. At the 2026...
AthleticsAsian Games 2026: What Lies Behind India's 'Historic' Athletics Medals on Day 6The Day 6 athletics results at the Asian Games 2026 make it seem as though...
Athletics548 Points at Diyagama: MAS's Eighth Title and the Quiet Structure of Sri Lankan Mercantile AthleticsA clip-file lives in my tribune bag. Inside it is the carbon copy of a result...
AthleticsThe Mirror of Records Does Not Reflect the Truth: The Puripol-Chen Yujie Controversy and the Crisis of Athletics MediaIn the final week of September, a report circulated citing Thailand's Khaosod...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Auditing the Ledger Behind Africa's First World ChampionshipsLast month the World Athletics Council awarded the 2029 World Championships t...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Kenya's Doping Ledger, Coe's Progress Claim and an Unfinished RecordOn 14 October in Nairobi, under a hall's lights and beside a World Athletics...
AthleticsStage-2 Athletics Analysis Confronts a Pipeline Failure: No Genuine Conclusion Is Possible from Empty InputA recent athletics data-analysis process has brought to light an incident tha...
AthleticsKenya's 140+ Sanctions and Nairobi 2029: The Ledger With No DatesNAIROBI, October 14. Sebastian Coe sits in front of the microphones and says...
Athletics92.62 Metres and an Empty Cell: The Verification Questions Behind Sri Lanka's New Javelin StarOn an afternoon in Rome, under the floodlights, the javelin stuck in the grou...
AthleticsChicago's Flat Track and the Record Chain: Auditing Seven World RecordsAt the 30-kilometre mark in Chicago, the pacemakers step off the curb, and in...
Athletics2:09:10 at 41, and 'Still Peaking': A Stopwatch Forensics of Kipchoge's Melbourne Course RecordMelbourne's 42.195 kilometres ended inside the MCG. Before he reached the lin...
Athletics2:41:55 and Vietnam's 69th Place: The 'Elite' Illusion of the Nghệ An MarathonOn the coastal road of Vinh city, in the last stretch of September, two runne...
Athletics0.001 Points and Gold Thirst: Vietnam's Asian Games Arithmetic, Where Half the Athletes Stay UnnamedWomen's vault missed bronze by exactly 0.001 points. Men's pommel horse fell...
AthleticsBangladesh Athletics' Invisible Crisis: From Currency to Mechanism, From Records to BleedingWhen I was doing frame-by-frame analysis of Usain Bolt's torn hamstring at th...
AthleticsThree Names, Zero Numbers: The Ledger Nobody Wrote in the Asian Games DiaryThe diary entry for 27 September. A daily page from a continental multi-sport...
AthleticsFrom Eight Thousand Five Hundred to One Thousand: What Is the Colombo Marathon's 'Revival' Number Really Saying?I counted the other half, and the number kept rewriting itself. In 2026, some...
Athletics20th LSR Colombo Marathon: Recovery or Marketing? A Deep AnalysisI held my first results sheet in Dhaka in 2026. Since then I have learned — t...
AthleticsVietnam Women's Athletics at the Asian Games: The Fall of a Golden Era, the Numbers I Counted Myself, and the Lap No One TimedWhen Nguyễn Thị Oanh lined up for the 3000m steeplechase at the 2026...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The 20th Edition's 'Recovery' Story vs a Participation Target of Just 12% of the 2026 PeakThe first LSR Colombo Marathon began in 2026 at the Galle Dutch Fort with 356...