Athletics
Vietnamese Athletics and the Shift from Inspiration to DataFor years, Vietnamese athletics has been told through stories of inspiration:...
Rasselbock Backyard Ultra: Three Women as the Last Ones Standing, and the Limits of a Historic ClaimFour in the morning at Hardwick Estate, Derbyshire. Frost beads on the grass...
Nairobi 2029 and 140-plus doping sanctions: is Kenyan athletics improving, or just being narrated differently?The press room in Nairobi was fuller than I expected. On the podium, Sebastia...
Six Years for Ruti Aga: The Verdict Written on an Old Prescription PadThe prescription was written on an old pad from a clinic. The signature...
Ruti Aga and the six-year ban: the decisive mistake was the prescriptionThe prescription submitted to save a career became the thing that buried it...
2:29:07 in Xi'an: How the Marathon Circuit Pays a Former NurseOn 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, Zhang Shuihua crossed the line in 2 hours 29...
The Empty Wind Column: Vietnamese Athletics and the Marks Nobody Can VerifyThe women's 100m final results sheet from a national athletics championship,...
The empty dossier on the track: Vietnamese athletics is drawing conclusions about athletes from guessworkIn the start list for the women's 400m hurdles at a national championship, a...
Medals, Yes. Wind Readings, No: The Data Gap in Vietnamese Women's AthleticsIn the drawer of my desk in Da Nang sits a bundle of results sheets that have...
VPIM 2026: When 'Record' Only Means a Hanoi Loop of Its Own1:30 AM, Hanoi still wrapped in mist. The pack poured past the foot of Long...
Four Records Without Numbers and a 'Fourth Overall' Line at DiyagamaOn 23 August, the final session at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium in...
Nairobi 2029: The 1,795-Meter Altitude and Athletics' Unaccounted Technical DebtIn the summer of 2026, at 2,240 meters of altitude in Mexico City, Bob Beamon...
The Empty File and Sports Media's Trap of Filling the VoidOn the first morning of the transfer window, a file slid into my inbox. I...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships Host and the Overlooked Altitude QuestionOn the stands of the Kasarani sports complex, some fifteen kilometres from...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the Ignored Altitude VariableTwo familiar names sat on the same shortlist: London and Rome. Both had...
Kenya and the 2029 Nairobi Ticket: When "Improving" Remains an Unverified ClaimThe sun has not risen over Iten, yet footsteps already echo on the red dirt...
Rasselbock Backyard Ultra: Three Women as the Last Ones Standing, and the Limits of a Historic ClaimFour in the morning at Hardwick Estate, Derbyshire. Frost beads on the grass...
Nairobi 2029 and 140-plus doping sanctions: is Kenyan athletics improving, or just being narrated differently?The press room in Nairobi was fuller than I expected. On the podium, Sebastia...
Six Years for Ruti Aga: The Verdict Written on an Old Prescription PadThe prescription was written on an old pad from a clinic. The signature...
Ruti Aga and the six-year ban: the decisive mistake was the prescriptionThe prescription submitted to save a career became the thing that buried it...
2:29:07 in Xi'an: How the Marathon Circuit Pays a Former NurseOn 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, Zhang Shuihua crossed the line in 2 hours 29...
The Empty Wind Column: Vietnamese Athletics and the Marks Nobody Can VerifyThe women's 100m final results sheet from a national athletics championship,...
The empty dossier on the track: Vietnamese athletics is drawing conclusions about athletes from guessworkIn the start list for the women's 400m hurdles at a national championship, a...
Medals, Yes. Wind Readings, No: The Data Gap in Vietnamese Women's AthleticsIn the drawer of my desk in Da Nang sits a bundle of results sheets that have...
VPIM 2026: When 'Record' Only Means a Hanoi Loop of Its Own1:30 AM, Hanoi still wrapped in mist. The pack poured past the foot of Long...
Four Records Without Numbers and a 'Fourth Overall' Line at DiyagamaOn 23 August, the final session at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium in...
Nairobi 2029: The 1,795-Meter Altitude and Athletics' Unaccounted Technical DebtIn the summer of 2026, at 2,240 meters of altitude in Mexico City, Bob Beamon...
The Empty File and Sports Media's Trap of Filling the VoidOn the first morning of the transfer window, a file slid into my inbox. I...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships Host and the Overlooked Altitude QuestionOn the stands of the Kasarani sports complex, some fifteen kilometres from...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the Ignored Altitude VariableTwo familiar names sat on the same shortlist: London and Rome. Both had...
Kenya and the 2029 Nairobi Ticket: When "Improving" Remains an Unverified ClaimThe sun has not risen over Iten, yet footsteps already echo on the red dirt...

