Athletics
Asiad 20 Day 29/9: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Athletics Comes Up Empty2026-09-30One sepak takraw gold, one evening of athletics that fell short. But the load...
Three Million Pounds and the Overturning of a Scoring Table: What Is Really Changing in European Athletics Before 20282026-09-23I once spent an entire morning in a Tokyo television archive in Ebisu,...
CDB Takes Three Team Titles at the 41st MAF Meet Without Publishing a Single Mark2026-09-22At Diyagama, a woman cleared the 400 metres hurdles, was named the meet's bes...
The 200-metre wife-carry in Can Gio: 1.1 m/s and the gap nobody times2026-09-20The 34-year-old man bent low, locked both hands around his wife's thighs, and...
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 11 months after surgery, and the choice not to run the 1500m: The recovery equation of a two-time Olympic champion2026-09-16At 21:47 local time at Eden Stadium in Prague, Jakob Ingebrigtsen crossed the...
World Athletics Ultimate Championship: The $10 Million Medal-less Gamble and the Governing Body's Role Swap2026-09-12The day football stopped, I started counting every step again. But today, wha...
The Hidden Lanes of Quách Thị Lan and Nguyễn Thị Oanh: When Reallocated Medals Cannot Mask the System's SilenceThe sound of spikes lightly touching the dew-moistened rubber track at the Ha...
9.90 Seconds in Nagoya: Puripol Boonson, Chen Yujie and the Reversed Axis of Asian SprintingThe electronic clock on the home straight at Nagoya Stadium stopped at 9.90....
Asiad 20 Day 29/9: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Athletics Comes Up EmptyOne sepak takraw gold, one evening of athletics that fell short. But the load...
Twelve Days Across Greece: One Human Body Turned Into a Laboratory, and Not a Single Kilometre PublishedOrmenio, and the blinking cursor Ormenio sits at the northernmost tip of...
Assefa Runs 2:11:04 in Berlin: A World Record Lost in the Final Two KilometresThree in the morning in Beijing. The third cup of coffee had gone cold long...
Puripol Boonson, 9.90 Seconds and the One-Metre Gap to Olympic GoldOn 25 September 2026, in the men's 100m semi-finals at the Asian Games, Purip...
Shanti Pereira, 11.43 Seconds, and the Art of Running Just Enough at the Asian GamesAt Mizuho Park on 24 September, Shanti Pereira crossed the line second in 11....
Three Million Pounds and the Overturning of a Scoring Table: What Is Really Changing in European Athletics Before 2028I once spent an entire morning in a Tokyo television archive in Ebisu,...
Vietnam's Women's Track: Reading a Result Through Wind, Shoes and the Splits Nobody PublishesVIETNAM'S WOMEN'S TRACK: READING A RESULT THROUGH WIND, SHOES AND THE SPLITS...
Four Meet Records, Zero Numbers: The Data Gap in a Sri Lankan Corporate Athletics ReportOn my desk in Osaka sits a four-page document. The first page lists three tea...
CDB Takes Three Team Titles at the 41st MAF Meet Without Publishing a Single MarkAt Diyagama, a woman cleared the 400 metres hurdles, was named the meet's bes...
Can Gio 2034: A 200-Metre Wife-Carry, a 42 km Marathon the Next Day, and the Axial Load ProblemAt the 42nd second of the clip released by the organisers of the HDBank Green...
The 200-metre wife-carry in Can Gio: 1.1 m/s and the gap nobody timesThe 34-year-old man bent low, locked both hands around his wife's thighs, and...
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 11 months after surgery, and the choice not to run the 1500m: The recovery equation of a two-time Olympic championAt 21:47 local time at Eden Stadium in Prague, Jakob Ingebrigtsen crossed the...
