Athletics
Vietnam's Star Drought at the Asian Games: The End of the 2026 Golden Generation and the Void of New FacesThe scene unfolding for Vietnam at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games is not o...
Colombo Marathon 2026: A Revival Announced, One-Eighth on the LedgerLast week I opened an old file on my laptop — "South Asia Road Racing." Entry...
Vietnam Athletics Remain Medal-less After Asian Games Final AppearancesVietnam’s athletics day ended with three results that show both the ability t...
A Three-Million-Pound Cheque, and One Thousand Euros for Eighth PlaceThere is a number in my notebook from the Birmingham 2026 medal table, still...
Kenya doping fight improving but far from over: Sebastian Coe ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe says Kenya's fight against doping is...
The 92.62-Metre Claim: Verification Must Come Before Rumesh Tharanga’s Olympic DreamThe distance printed in the Rome announcement was 92.62 metres. Around it cam...
Nine Empty Cells: The Record Bangladeshi Athletics Never WroteI looked at the sheet and did not hunt for a name first. I counted columns....
Clock vs. Crowd at the Marathon: Questions Raised While Digging Through the New York FileI saw the New York Marathon headline on a phone screen in Rangpur, at dawn. O...
Kenya's Doping Ledger: 140+ Sanctions, Nairobi 2029 and a Trend Still UnmeasuredOctober 14, Nairobi. In a briefing room, World Athletics president Sebastian...
From 92.97 to 80.29: The Ledger Arshad Nadeem's Body Has Been KeepingEveryone in Pakistan still has the Paris number memorised: 92.97. Nobody...
The Stopwatch That Stood Still: Imranur Rahman, the Paris Wildcard and Bangladesh's Pipeline-Empty GoldHook: I first heard the stopwatch mutiny in the silence of an empty stadium. ...
An Empty Cell Is Also a Data Point: Reading the Silence in Bangladesh's Sprint ArchiveLast week a deconstruction report landed on my desk. Title: N/A. Source: N/A....
Sindh's First Gold Came in 32:32.40, and That Time Is the Real StoryThe track at NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, the...
The 1:30 A.M. Race: What You Must Look At Before Reading Hanoi's 2:47:52 Against the World StandardAt 1:30 a.m. Hanoi time the first marathon wave is released. The steel deck o...
The Value of Empty Data: Bangladesh Athletics' Invisible Injury Archive Is the Real CrisisI was sitting in front of the television in August 2026 when Usain Bolt pulle...
The 78 Seconds in Berlin: Assefa's Foot, Chepngetich's Case, and a Record in LimboThe clock at the Brandenburg Gate stopped at 2:11:04. The women's marathon...
The Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Sprint Record, the Broken Pipeline, and the Search for an Auditable FutureThe spreadsheet already knew the score before the stadium did. Autumn 2026,...
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62 Metres: A Record, a Contract, and the Papers Nobody SentThe Release Is a Document, Not a Photograph The loudest thing in the CIC...
The Republic of Insufficient Information: The Empty File That Is Bangladeshi Athletics' Most Honest DocumentHook: The File That Came Back Empty Last month I filed a request. Seven...
Records on a Ledger, Truths in Empty Lanes: The Unwritten Accounts of Bangladeshi AthleticsOctober 2026. Outside the timing cabin at Bangabandhu National Stadium, eveni...
The Testimony of an Empty Sheet: What the Stopwatch Proves in Bangladeshi Sprint HistoryOne afternoon at the 2026 National Athletics Championships, I sat in the...
The 1:39 Error: A Celebrity Half Marathon and Bangladesh's Unmeasured WomenThe wet asphalt of San Sebastián. Spectators packed under umbrellas. And an...
21 Kilometres, 1:39:00 and a Mistyped Number: The Ledger of a Celebrity Half MarathonThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. A...
Wind Readings, Timing Systems and 0.31 Seconds: Bangladesh Athletics' Record ProblemMarch 2026, the National Athletics Championships in Dhaka. I was the only wom...