Athletics
Chicago Marathon: The Course That Sets Records, and the Records That Raise Questions
The Empty Cell: How Bangladesh Athletics' Data Void Became a Result in Its Own Right
The Stopwatch's Lie: The One-Third of Bangladesh's Sprint Decline That Is Really a Measurement Error
32:32.40 — The Distance Written Nowhere Inside Sindh's First Gold
Vietnam's Medal-Soul Death and the Lesson for Bangladesh: A Pipeline AuditIn the 1980s at the Dhaka Stadium, when I went to watch Shah Alam sprint, the...
Arshad's Arm, His Coach's Timetable, and One Number: What a Sub-80 Metre Season Is Really SayingThe javelin that flew 92.97 metres in Paris now lands at 80.29 for fourth....
From Speed Suit to Hoodie: How Track and Field's Kit Ledger Records TimeWhile reconciling the results sheets of the 48th National Athletics...
Berlin's 2:11:04: Assefa's Record Miss Was a Stomach Story, Not a Leg StoryAt the 35-kilometre point of the Berlin Marathon, when Tigst Assefa was movin...
The Name I Mispronounced Three Times: From a Khulna Microphone to Dhaka's Entry ListsThat afternoon at Khulna District Stadium, the borrowed microphone had one...
The One-Second Record That Began on Copenhagen's Roads—and Ends Nowhere in BangladeshOn the road racing course in Copenhagen, the sun fell on the tarmac at nine i...
Chicago Marathon: Where Times Approach Records, but Races Are Won on the Last Mile11 October 2026, the finish line of the Chicago Marathon. When the clock read...
Bronze by 0.08 Seconds: The Arithmetic Behind Vietnam's Relay MedalAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, after the mixed 4x400m relay final, I had ...
Chicago Marathon: The Course That Sets Records, and the Records That Raise QuestionsWatching the elite field announced for the 48th edition of the Chicago...
The Null-Input Framework: The Political Economy of Analysis in Sports JournalismThe documents that pile up outside the field sometimes speak more truth than...
Almgren's Dream Debut, Chepkirui's Crown: New York City Marathon ReportSweden's Almgren won the men's title at the New York City Marathon on his...
Chicago Marathon 2026: Feysa retains her crown, Kipruto triumphs in the men's raceChicago, 11 October 2026 — Hawi Feysa of Ethiopia successfully defended her...
The Empty Cell: How Bangladesh Athletics' Data Void Became a Result in Its Own RightIn February I opened a results file from a domestic meet and did what I alway...
A £3m Prize Fund: European Athletics' Structural Reform, and the Question Left Open on Bangladesh's TrackDay two of the 2026 National Athletics Championships in Dhaka. I stood beside...
AMPHIBIAN: Five Sports, 13 Regions in 12 Days—Greece’s North-to-South Body LabBefore the first pedal turns on the border road at Ormenio, AMPHIBIAN’s most...
The Stopwatch's Lie: The One-Third of Bangladesh's Sprint Decline That Is Really a Measurement ErrorA forensic reconstruction of Bangladesh's sprint 'decline' debate, arguing th...
The One-Second Record: Ngetich's 1:05:15 in Copenhagen and the Questions the Clock Cannot AnswerThe clock at the finish line read 1:05:15, and on a sunny Copenhagen morning ...
Chicago Marathon: Seven World Records and a Ledger That Still Doesn't BalanceOctober 2026. In the press gallery of Bangabandhu National Stadium I am...
The Null Report Is Also a Result: The Records Bangladesh's Athletics Archive Never Kept14 January 2026, 1:40 a.m. A nine-dimension analysis sheet lies open on my de...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: The Injection Was Never the Case, the Forged Prescription WasOn 10 September Ruti Aga's name came off the entry lists. The Ethiopian...
32:32.40 — The Distance Written Nowhere Inside Sindh's First GoldThe first thing that catches the eye on the result sheet of the 54th National...
Sindh's First Gold, 32:32.40, and the Unequal Distances of Pakistan's Race WalkingThe first morning of the 54th National Athletics Championship at the NED...