Athletics
From a 3 a.m. Start Line to 69th All-Time: The Number the Nghệ An Marathon Does Not Say
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Question Isn't Doping, It's the Calendar
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: The 4.15m and 17.17m Hidden Behind India's Athletics Medals
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Where the Medal Is There but the Clock Is Missing
From a 3 a.m. Start Line to 69th All-Time: The Number the Nghệ An Marathon Does Not SayAt three in the morning on Trường Thi Street in Vinh, the 42-kilometre start...
Three Rows on 27 September: Reading Vietnam's Women's Track Load From a Games Diary EntryThe athletics block of the 27 September Games diary runs to three rows. Two...
The Crowd Grows, the Door Stays Narrow: Vietnam's 2:41:55 and a 69th-Place RankingThe 42km wave left Vinh at three in the morning, and the live blog found its...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Question Isn't Doping, It's the CalendarOn the night of 10 August 2026, the 100m hurdles final at the Stade de France...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: The Medals Were Counted, the Clocks Were NotThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
4.15 Meters and 17.17 Meters: India's Historic Bronzes on Day Six, and the Stopwatch Missing From the SheetThe results sheet from Day Six in Aichi-Nagoya arrived looking like an empty...
Medals Arrived, the Clock Didn't: India's Athletics on Day 6 at the 2026 Asian GamesThe ground under Aichi-Nagoya sits close to sea level, so there is no altitud...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: The 4.15m and 17.17m Hidden Behind India's Athletics MedalsThe bar stopped at 4.15 metres in Aichi-Nagoya, and India had its first ever...
12.34 Seconds and a Date: Where the Stopwatch Stops, the Calendar BeginsI rewound the screen three times after the Paris final of the women's 100m...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Where the Medal Is There but the Clock Is MissingThe Rangpur audit began on the day the clock disagreed with the crowd. June...
Where the Clock Never Stops but the Address Disappears: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Invisible Ledger of the HurdlesWhere the Clock Never Stops but the Address Disappears: Samba-Mayela's...
Medals Without a Clock: A Timing Audit of India's Athletics Returns on Day 6 of the 2026 Asian GamesMedals Without a Clock: A Timing Audit of India's Athletics Returns on Day 6 ...
A Historic 4.15m Bronze — And the Times Nobody Bothered to Write DownDay 6 of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. The pole vault bar settled at 4.15m...
9.91 and the Empty Wind Box: Thailand's Teenager and the Asian Games RecordHook When the Paloma Mizuho scoreboard flashed 9.91, my eyes did not go to th...
Nagoya's 9.91, the Missing Wind Reading, and the Half We Still Do Not CountAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Puripol Boonson ran 9.95 seconds in the...
9.91 in Nagoya: Without the Wind Reading, the Record Is Only Half9.91 in Nagoya: Without the Wind Reading, the Record Is Only Half On 30 June...