Athletics
Kipchoge Wins First Marathon in Three Years: 2:09:10 in Melbourne and the Course Dividend
The Blind Spot at Mile 20: When Mass Marathons Outgrow Their Cardiac Screening Systems
Vietnam's Youth Athletics and the Empty Data Vault
Japan's Track and the 10-Second Wall: When Data Redefines Asian Speed
Puripol Boonson and the plea to stop 'shipping' – when 9.90 seconds is overshadowed by a fictional romance
3:22:20 and the Nameless Shoe: When Equipment Rules Erase an Asian Games Gold
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Thin Apex of Vietnamese Marathon RunningThat morning, when the clock on Long Bien Bridge stopped at 2 hours 47 minute...
Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52: A Course Record, and the Void Behind the ApexI followed VPIM 2026 from Nairobi, through a results feed as thin as a thread...
Kipchoge Wins First Marathon in Three Years: 2:09:10 in Melbourne and the Course DividendOn the morning of October 11, 2026, Eliud Kipchoge crossed the finish line...
MAS Holdings and the 27 Meet Records: Re-reading a Women's Sports StageOn the track at Diyagama, a female athlete crossed the finish line and sat do...
A Shoe Absent From the Approved List, and a 42.195 km Gold RevokedThe women's marathon race walk result sheet at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya...
The Shoe That Wasn't on the List: Toxanbayeva's Asian Games Gold, the Equipment Rule and Asian Athletics' Compliance GapThe electronic results board changed status about three seconds after the...
Vietnam breaks national record at ASIAD 2026: mixed 4x400m bronze and the 0.08-second gapOn an athletics evening in Aichi-Nagoya, the stadium announcer faded beneath...
Track and Field Apparel 2026–2026: From Speed-Skating Bodysuit to the Sydney Swift SuitIn February 2026, at an indoor meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Evelyn...
A Few Millimeters Over the Limit: ASIAD Race-Walk Gold Stripped 24 Hours LaterThe 88th minute does not exist on a race-walk course. There, there is only...
Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe Brings World Athletics to Africa, and the Unsolved Equation of 1,795 MetresOn the day World Athletics announced that Nairobi had won the right to host t...
The Empty Data Feed: The Line Between Analysis and Fiction in the Sports NewsroomAt three in the morning in a Beijing sports newsroom, I waited for the data...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the Unresolved Altitude QuestionIn Iten, at 5:30 in the morning, I counted seventeen figures running up the...
Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsIn a statement made in Nairobi, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe...
Kenya ahead of the 2029 World Championships: a progress claim and 140 doping sanctionsNairobi, one October morning. I stood at the gate of Kasarani Stadium, where...
Chicago Marathon: The Flat Course and the Overlooked Variables Behind Seven World RecordsSeen through an elevation dataset, the Chicago Marathon course is almost a...
The Blind Spot at Mile 20: When Mass Marathons Outgrow Their Cardiac Screening SystemsTwo miles. That is the distance between the kiss at mile 18 (29 km) and the...
Vietnamese Youth Athletics and the Data Gap No One RecordsLate afternoon in June, at a small stadium in central Vietnam, I stood at the...
Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52: A Course Record, and the Void Behind the ApexI followed VPIM 2026 from Nairobi, through a results feed as thin as a thread...
Kipchoge Wins First Marathon in Three Years: 2:09:10 in Melbourne and the Course DividendOn the morning of October 11, 2026, Eliud Kipchoge crossed the finish line...
MAS Holdings and the 27 Meet Records: Re-reading a Women's Sports StageOn the track at Diyagama, a female athlete crossed the finish line and sat do...
A Shoe Absent From the Approved List, and a 42.195 km Gold RevokedThe women's marathon race walk result sheet at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya...
The Shoe That Wasn't on the List: Toxanbayeva's Asian Games Gold, the Equipment Rule and Asian Athletics' Compliance GapThe electronic results board changed status about three seconds after the...
Vietnam breaks national record at ASIAD 2026: mixed 4x400m bronze and the 0.08-second gapOn an athletics evening in Aichi-Nagoya, the stadium announcer faded beneath...
Track and Field Apparel 2026–2026: From Speed-Skating Bodysuit to the Sydney Swift SuitIn February 2026, at an indoor meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Evelyn...
A Few Millimeters Over the Limit: ASIAD Race-Walk Gold Stripped 24 Hours LaterThe 88th minute does not exist on a race-walk course. There, there is only...
Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe Brings World Athletics to Africa, and the Unsolved Equation of 1,795 MetresOn the day World Athletics announced that Nairobi had won the right to host t...
The Empty Data Feed: The Line Between Analysis and Fiction in the Sports NewsroomAt three in the morning in a Beijing sports newsroom, I waited for the data...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the Unresolved Altitude QuestionIn Iten, at 5:30 in the morning, I counted seventeen figures running up the...
Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsIn a statement made in Nairobi, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe...
Kenya ahead of the 2029 World Championships: a progress claim and 140 doping sanctionsNairobi, one October morning. I stood at the gate of Kasarani Stadium, where...
Chicago Marathon: The Flat Course and the Overlooked Variables Behind Seven World RecordsSeen through an elevation dataset, the Chicago Marathon course is almost a...
The Blind Spot at Mile 20: When Mass Marathons Outgrow Their Cardiac Screening SystemsTwo miles. That is the distance between the kiss at mile 18 (29 km) and the...
Vietnamese Youth Athletics and the Data Gap No One RecordsLate afternoon in June, at a small stadium in central Vietnam, I stood at the...
