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
Zhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, $700,000 and the 9:28 gapOn the morning of 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, I stood about four metres past t...
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...
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...
