Athletics
Athletics2026 Asian Games: The Unlisted Shoe and the Gold Medal That Changed Hands in the Women's Marathon Race Walk2026-10-09On the evening of September 27, on the walking loop around the Nagoya sports...
AthleticsEast African Women's Athletics: When Records Die in Silence2026-10-05On an afternoon in June 2026, on a red dirt track in Iten, a nineteen-year-ol...
AthleticsNaomi Korir Fifth in the Commonwealth Games Final: What the Results Sheet Doesn't Say2026-10-03Glasgow. An evening at the Commonwealth Games athletics final. Naomi Korir...
AthleticsAthletics in Championship Season: Read the Wind Gauge Before Trusting a Moment2026-10-03The clock on the 100m track stopped at 9.89 seconds. Just hours later, the cl...
2:29:07 and $700,000: China's Road Racing Market Pays for the Story, Not the SpeedThe clock on the Xi'an course stopped at 2:29:07 on 18 October 2026. The...
Nairobi 2029: The First African World Athletics Championships and the Unsolved Altitude EquationOn the track in Nairobi, the air is thin enough that every breath becomes a...
The 92.62-Metre Throw in Rome: A Blank Column in the DataAt a sea-level stadium in Rome, the javelin left Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage's...
The 92.62-Meter Javelin and the Data Gap Nobody Wants to ReadIn Rome, on an afternoon when the electronic board flashed just once, Rumesh...
Four SEA Games Golds and the Real Gap in Vietnamese AthleticsIn May 2026, on the track in Phnom Penh, Nguyen Thi Oanh stepped to the start...
The Analysis That Returned N/A: The Discipline of Silence Vietnamese Sports Hasn't LearnedHook In January 2026, in a small apartment in Osaka, I opened a six-page spor...
Vietnamese Athletics in 2026: The Track Had Runners, the Record Book Had BlanksOn a May afternoon in 2026, at Hang Day Stadium, two timekeepers timing the...
Trey Lara, 25, and the Cardiac Screening Gap in Mass-Participation MarathonsAt mile 18, roughly kilometre 29, Trey Lara stopped at the side of the course...
2026 Asian Games: The Unlisted Shoe and the Gold Medal That Changed Hands in the Women's Marathon Race WalkOn the evening of September 27, on the walking loop around the Nagoya sports...
Berlin Marathon: Tigst Assefa Breaks Course Record but Misses World Record After Foot InjuryTigst Assefa won the women's marathon at the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours 11...
Yan Ziyi throws 70.46m, Puripol Boonson runs 19.88s: Two Asian records and what still needs verificationRain fell over Nagoya from the morning. The runway was wet, and from the thir...
The Empty Injury File: The Discipline of Not Guessing in Athletics ReportingOn a Monday morning in Binh Duong, an injury analysis report landed on the de...
East African Women's Athletics: When Records Die in SilenceOn an afternoon in June 2026, on a red dirt track in Iten, a nineteen-year-ol...
Vietnamese Women's Athletics Enters the Major-Competition Cycle With a Data GapLate October morning: I stayed behind alone in Stand B of Mỹ Đình Stadium aft...
Vietnam's Youth Athletics and the Data Gap Burying the Next GenerationIn July 2026, I sat in the stands of a provincial stadium in central Vietnam,...
Naomi Korir Fifth in the Commonwealth Games Final: What the Results Sheet Doesn't SayGlasgow. An evening at the Commonwealth Games athletics final. Naomi Korir...
Athletics in Championship Season: Read the Wind Gauge Before Trusting a MomentThe clock on the 100m track stopped at 9.89 seconds. Just hours later, the cl...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: Excavating a Revived Race from Colombo to NegomboDawn over the lowlands of Negombo in October 2026 will be hot as the breath o...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: Revival of Sri Lanka's Oldest Road Race and Opportunities for Vietnamese AthleticsThe LSR Colombo Marathon 2026 is entering its final preparation phase, markin...