Athletics
Ruti Aga’s Six-Year Ban: Injury, a Fake Prescription and Marathon Running’s Hidden Medical Risk
New York City Marathon: A Debut Crown for the Men, a Three-Second Women's Podium
Nagoya's 9.91: Two Columns in the Ledger, One Still Blank
VPBank Hanoi International Marathon 2026: Big Record Numbers, Bigger Questions
Top Eight and Paid: European Athletics' £3m Fund and the Gap in the Ledger
Ruti Aga’s Six-Year Ban: Injury, a Fake Prescription and Marathon Running’s Hidden Medical RiskThe most important number in Ruti Aga’s career is no longer her 2026 Tokyo...
Three Minutes Forty-Nine Seconds: The Nagoya Gold That Got Stuck in a Shoe FileSeptember 27, Nagoya. No wind, sea-level altitude, 42.195 kilometres. The clo...
Chicago 2026: 34 Seconds Versus 3:37, and a Name Lost in the CaptionOn 11 October 2026, 7:30 am in Chicago, it was 6:30 in the evening on my desk...
Athletics Analysis Without Evidence: Reliable Records Must Come Before ResultsA sporting performance can only be evaluated after establishing who competed,...
Not 0.31 but 3:14.54: Quách Thị Lan's Retirement Where Medals and Clocks Speak Different LanguagesThere is no clock for that moment on the yellow track. When Quách Thị Lan...
Archaeology of a Blank Page: The Stage-1 Failure Behind Bangladesh Athletics' 'Extinction' StoryIn January, going through the results of 41 events from the 48th National...
Athletics Analysis Halted by a Null Input, Not by a Sporting ResultA stopwatch is checked before a race is judged. A measuring device is tested...
Kipruto's 2:01:09 and Feysa's 2:13:33 on Chicago's Flat Course — Where the Clock Speaks Without Telling EverythingWhen the clock at the Chicago finish line reads 2:01:09, the question is no...
The New York Marathon Headline That Left Out the Women's ChampionLate at night, at a tea stall in Rangpur, I was watching the New York Maratho...
NYC Marathon: The Results That Enter the Newsroom, and the Stories Left at the DoorOver the past few years, among the marathon results I have watched on a phone...
New York City Marathon: A Debut Crown for the Men, a Three-Second Women's PodiumA recent wire-style report on the New York City Marathon follows the classic...