Athletics
From Ormenio to Gavdos: A 12-Day Expedition Testing Human Physiology, Science and Technology
Boonson's 9.91 Breaks the Asian Games Record — With a Wind-Reading Asterisk
The Blank Cell Is the Result: Why Data Absence in Bangladesh Athletics Is Not an Accident
140 Sanctions, No Annual Row: Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's Doping Ledger
The Archive of Empty Cells: How Bangladeshi Athletics Loses Its Own Records, and Whether Blockchain Can Keep the Count
Testimony of an Empty Cell: Bangladesh's Athletics Record Crisis and the Case for a Verifiable Ledger
From Ormenio to Gavdos: A 12-Day Expedition Testing Human Physiology, Science and TechnologyFrom the northernmost edge of Greece to the southernmost boundary of Europe, ...
The Blank Cell Is the Data: The Missing Names on Bangladesh's Women's 100m Entry ListOn a bamboo post beside the control room at Khulna District Stadium, a sheet ...
Audit of an Empty Lane: The Results Sheet With a Grid and No NamesEleven at night, a desk in Manchester. I open the file. The columns sit exact...
The Half Never Counted: The Invisible History of Women in Bangladeshi AthleticsRecently, a results sheet from the National Athletics Championships landed in...
Nagoya Asiad: China's Teenage Javelin Thunder, and an Invisible Whistle Through Bangladesh's Cricket CultureOn a winter evening at the Nagoya stadium, when an 18-year-old girl threw the...
India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6: Medal Glow and the Darkness of Missing TimesWhen Gulveer Singh lengthened his stride in the final 400 metres, leaving two...
Boonson's 9.91 Breaks the Asian Games Record — With a Wind-Reading AsteriskNagoya: Thailand's Puripol Boonson has put himself on the edge of history at...
Beyond the Result: Nine Dimensions of Athletics AnalysisEvery sports report has two layers. One is what happened: the time, the...
The New Geography of the Javelin: Why Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62 m Is More Than a RecordRome, on an afternoon. The stands maybe held four or five thousand people,...
The Empty Cell, the Loudest Witness: Bangladesh's Sprinting Crisis Is Not About TalentThe first thing that disappears after a finish line is not the time. It is th...
From 92.97 to 80.29: Arshad Nadeem, the Empty Lane and an Unfinished LedgerI opened the results sheet of the 54th National Athletics Championships in...
Gold Stopped by a Shoe Approval: A Race-Walking Result That Reached the Appeal RoomAt the Asian Games, the first number to check in the women's race-walking...
The Blank Cell Is the Result: Why Data Absence in Bangladesh Athletics Is Not an AccidentThe Blank Cell Is the Result March 2026. The timing booth at the National...
32:32.40 in Karachi: The Number the Race-Walk Results Sheet Left BlankThe results sheet carried exactly one number beside the women's 5,000m race...
2:50:41 and 2:29:58: How Hanoi's Marathon Record Sits Outside the Global ScaleThe line was still moving along the Red River dike when the morning turned we...
140 Sanctions, No Annual Row: Nairobi 2029 and Kenya's Doping LedgerHook At the press conference in Nairobi, Sebastian Coe's most important...
Chicago Marathon's Ledger: An Eight-Metre Elevation Band and an Asterisk Beside 2:09:56In the commentary box at the 2026 Dhaka SAF Games I said the sentence that ha...
The Empty Block: When Absence Becomes the Only Honest Proof on Sports Data's Blockchain LedgerLast week I ran a nine-dimension sports analysis framework I have spent years...
The File Came Back Empty: Bangladesh Athletics' Ledger and the Blank BlockchainThe Rangpur audit began the day the clock disagreed with the crowd. It was Ju...
The Archive of Empty Cells: How Bangladeshi Athletics Loses Its Own Records, and Whether Blockchain Can Keep the CountI sat down with a printout. It was a performance-analysis sheet. The top row...
The Empty Cell of 9.90: What the Asian Games Record Rain Never TimedOn the track at Aichi-Nagoya, the board lit up with 9.90. Thailand's Puripol...
Testimony of an Empty Cell: Bangladesh's Athletics Record Crisis and the Case for a Verifiable LedgerI opened my own file again. Seven columns — year, athlete, event, mark, wind...
Vietnam's Marathon Boom: What Does 'Elite' Mean in a Country Where 2:41:55 Ranks 69th?2:41:55. Four digits, one time. Not a world record — about 41 minutes behind...
No Verdict Without a Time: Indian Athletics on Asian Games Day SixOn the evening of Day Six in Aichi-Nagoya, the men's 10,000m final carried tw...