Athletics
The wind gauge never makes the broadcast: how to read an athletics mark before you trust it
The 41st Mercantile Championships: 27 Meet Records, a 242-Point Gap, and the Void Behind MAS Holdings
Berlin: Tigst Assefa Missed the World Record by 68 Seconds, and the Final Two Kilometres Said What the Splits Could Not
2:31:49 and 2:47:52: When VPIM 2026 Course Records Are Not Automatically a Sporting Breakthrough
Nine Dimensions, Not a Single Name: The Silent Data Failure Eroding AthleticsThe analysis table has nine rows, forty-seven cells, and not one cell contain...
The wind gauge never makes the broadcast: how to read an athletics mark before you trust itThe wind gauge sits 1.22 metres above the track surface and runs for 13 secon...
Asian Para Games 2026: Singapore Hands the Flag to James Ethan Ang and Leaves the Medal Target OpenAt Gardens by the Bay, the flag ceremony ran shorter than a quarter of women'...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the 2026 Gap in French Women's HurdlesOn an August night in 2026, Cyrena Samba-Mayela crossed the line at the Stade...
The 41st Mercantile Championships: 27 Meet Records, a 242-Point Gap, and the Void Behind MAS HoldingsThree in the afternoon at Diyagama, and the synthetic track has heated up lik...
Berlin: Tigst Assefa Missed the World Record by 68 Seconds, and the Final Two Kilometres Said What the Splits Could NotAt Kilometre 40, Tigst Assefa Was Still Beating the World Record I was sittin...
Dawit Seare Wins in 12:56 in Copenhagen: Ingebrigtsen's Eight Days Came DueJakob Ingebrigtsen was still in front at the fourth kilometre. By the fifth, ...
Four World Records for Kenyan Women — and the Middle Tier Nobody CountsIten, Elgeyo-Marakwet County, six in the morning. Mist still clings to the...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52 Is a Course Record, Not a Record of ClassAt 04:12 on race morning, on the ramp leading up to Long Bien Bridge, the...
2:31:49 and 2:47:52: When VPIM 2026 Course Records Are Not Automatically a Sporting BreakthroughPham Thi Hong Le crossed the line in 2:47:52, breaking her own course record ...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and a 21-Minute Gap to the Olympic Standard01:30 in the morning, the start gate goes up at the foot of Long Bien Bridge....
VPIM 2026: A 2:47:52 Course Record and the Missing Twenty MinutesAt 01:30, the 42.195km field of VPIM 2026 left the start line. Late-year Hano...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's Course Record and the Gap Nobody MeasuredAt 01:30 the Hanoi streets were still damp with mist and empty as an early...
When an Empty Athletics Data Sheet Gets Read as a Clean Bill of HealthShenzhen, an August morning. On my desk sits a nine-section athletics analysi...
The Track Was Never Just About Speed: How Apparel Rewrote Athletics HistoryIn 2026, at an indoor meeting in Albuquerque, Evelyn Ashford crossed the line...
Assefa and 2:11:04: The World Record Died in the Last Two KilometresAt the 35-kilometre checkpoint, the lead vehicle clock in Berlin read exactly...
Asiad 20 Closes in Aichi-Nagoya: Vietnam Finishes 19th, and Athletics Remains an Open QuestionOn the final evening of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, I sat in the press area,...
The Empty Analysis on the Track: Data Discipline and the Cost of Filling a BlankThere is a results sheet on my desk in Nairobi that is only half filled in. T...
Amy Hunt, 22.16 Seconds and the Fatigue Signal in the Final 20 Metres: When the Spreadsheet Speaks Before EmotionBrussels, the Diamond League final, the women's 200 metres. Amy Hunt enters t...
The Data Void on Kenya's Women's Track: Victories That Go UncountedLast July, at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, I sat in the fourth row of the...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships, and the Altitude Question Nobody Is AskingA month ago, when World Athletics announced that Nairobi had won the right to...
140 Sanctions and a Ticket to Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe's Gamble of TrustIn October, at a press conference in Nairobi, a number was read out and nobod...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's Doping Fight: When Progress Must Be Proven With DataIn Iten, people wake before the sun does. The highlands of western Kenya, whe...
Coe says Kenya's doping fight is improving ahead of the 2029 World Championships in NairobiThere is a silence I always remember at athletics meets. Before the starting...
The wind gauge never makes the broadcast: how to read an athletics mark before you trust itThe wind gauge sits 1.22 metres above the track surface and runs for 13 secon...
Asian Para Games 2026: Singapore Hands the Flag to James Ethan Ang and Leaves the Medal Target OpenAt Gardens by the Bay, the flag ceremony ran shorter than a quarter of women'...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the 2026 Gap in French Women's HurdlesOn an August night in 2026, Cyrena Samba-Mayela crossed the line at the Stade...
The 41st Mercantile Championships: 27 Meet Records, a 242-Point Gap, and the Void Behind MAS HoldingsThree in the afternoon at Diyagama, and the synthetic track has heated up lik...
Berlin: Tigst Assefa Missed the World Record by 68 Seconds, and the Final Two Kilometres Said What the Splits Could NotAt Kilometre 40, Tigst Assefa Was Still Beating the World Record I was sittin...
Dawit Seare Wins in 12:56 in Copenhagen: Ingebrigtsen's Eight Days Came DueJakob Ingebrigtsen was still in front at the fourth kilometre. By the fifth, ...
Four World Records for Kenyan Women — and the Middle Tier Nobody CountsIten, Elgeyo-Marakwet County, six in the morning. Mist still clings to the...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52 Is a Course Record, Not a Record of ClassAt 04:12 on race morning, on the ramp leading up to Long Bien Bridge, the...
2:31:49 and 2:47:52: When VPIM 2026 Course Records Are Not Automatically a Sporting BreakthroughPham Thi Hong Le crossed the line in 2:47:52, breaking her own course record ...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and a 21-Minute Gap to the Olympic Standard01:30 in the morning, the start gate goes up at the foot of Long Bien Bridge....
VPIM 2026: A 2:47:52 Course Record and the Missing Twenty MinutesAt 01:30, the 42.195km field of VPIM 2026 left the start line. Late-year Hano...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's Course Record and the Gap Nobody MeasuredAt 01:30 the Hanoi streets were still damp with mist and empty as an early...
When an Empty Athletics Data Sheet Gets Read as a Clean Bill of HealthShenzhen, an August morning. On my desk sits a nine-section athletics analysi...
The Track Was Never Just About Speed: How Apparel Rewrote Athletics HistoryIn 2026, at an indoor meeting in Albuquerque, Evelyn Ashford crossed the line...
Assefa and 2:11:04: The World Record Died in the Last Two KilometresAt the 35-kilometre checkpoint, the lead vehicle clock in Berlin read exactly...
Asiad 20 Closes in Aichi-Nagoya: Vietnam Finishes 19th, and Athletics Remains an Open QuestionOn the final evening of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, I sat in the press area,...
The Empty Analysis on the Track: Data Discipline and the Cost of Filling a BlankThere is a results sheet on my desk in Nairobi that is only half filled in. T...
Amy Hunt, 22.16 Seconds and the Fatigue Signal in the Final 20 Metres: When the Spreadsheet Speaks Before EmotionBrussels, the Diamond League final, the women's 200 metres. Amy Hunt enters t...
The Data Void on Kenya's Women's Track: Victories That Go UncountedLast July, at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, I sat in the fourth row of the...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships, and the Altitude Question Nobody Is AskingA month ago, when World Athletics announced that Nairobi had won the right to...
140 Sanctions and a Ticket to Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe's Gamble of TrustIn October, at a press conference in Nairobi, a number was read out and nobod...
Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's Doping Fight: When Progress Must Be Proven With DataIn Iten, people wake before the sun does. The highlands of western Kenya, whe...
Coe says Kenya's doping fight is improving ahead of the 2029 World Championships in NairobiThere is a silence I always remember at athletics meets. Before the starting...
