Athletics
Worn Around the Neck, Absent From the Ledger: A Shoe, an Approved List, and an Asian Games Medal in the DockWorn Around the Neck, Absent From the Ledger: A Shoe, an Approved List, and a...
Three Names, Zero Marks: Nagoya's September 27 and the Other Half of the RecordThree Names, Zero Marks: Nagoya's September 27 and the Other Half of the Reco...
The Stopwatch Remembered What the Record Book Refused to Hold: Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and Athletics' Administrative TrapThe record book forgets. The stopwatch does not. September 18 is a date. On i...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: Whereabouts Failures, Calendar Arithmetic, and Three Unpublished NumbersFirst I counted. Then I asked why nobody else had. On 10 August 2026, in Pari...
The September 18 File: Three Numbers Nobody Published in the Cyrena Samba-Mayela Whereabouts CaseEvery athletics story begins with a number. 10.29 seconds, 6.59 seconds, 12.3...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Four Athletics Results, Zero Timing Data — and the Price Check on the Word 'Historic'Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Four Athletics Results, Zero Timing Data — and the...
4.15 Metres and the Times Nobody Wrote Down4.15. One number. By six in the evening I had the Day 6 results sheet open in...
The Samba-Mayela File: The Three Dates Nobody Has PublishedMy spreadsheet was still open — 140 rows, every Bangladeshi men's 100m result...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts Breach — Full ContextThis is a Bengali article. English translation of the full article is not...
9.91 and One Hundredth: How a Nagoya Semifinal Rewrote Asia's Sprint LedgerPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. September 2026, men's 100 m, semifinal one. Th...
Medals Without Times: India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6At the athletics arena in Aichi-Nagoya, India's Day 6 card produced four...
The 9.91 Ledger: A Record Whose Wind Was Never MeasuredThe clock stopped at 9.91. The scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya...
Nagoya's 9.91: Thailand's Teenager, an Unratified Record, and Bangladesh's Empty TracksNagoya's 9.91: Thailand's Teenager, an Unratified Record, and Bangladesh's...
9.91 With No Wind Reading Beside It: Nagoya's Semifinal Record and the Three Empty Cells in My LedgerThe number that came, and the number that didn't Nagoya, Paloma Mizuho Stadiu...
9.91 Seconds in Nagoya: A Semifinal Record, and the Questions That Still Hang OpenNagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium was nowhere near full that evening. You could...
From 12.34 to September 18: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case, the Clock Gives Way to a CalendarStade de France, Paris, 10 August 2026. The women's 100m hurdles final ends a...
