Athletics
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: Two Clocks, and the Arithmetic Nobody Wants to Run
Under 4.15 Metres, the Times Nobody Wrote Down: Asian Games Day 6, India's Medals, and Our Empty Tracks
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: The Number Missing from the AIU File
The Unclosed Ledger of 9.91 Seconds: A Record That Has Not Yet Been Cleared by the Wind
From Ormenio to Gavdos: 12 Days, Five Sports, and a Body That Becomes the Laboratory28 hours 16 minutes. In the summer of 2026, a Greek physician swam 101...
Blank Cells, Longer Road: Vietnam's Athletics Day in Nagoya and the Wait for a Results SheetBlank Cells, Longer Road: Vietnam's Athletics Day in Nagoya and the Wait for ...
A Medal Without a Clock: India's Athletics on Asian Games 2026 Day 6 and the Results Sheet Nobody Filled InLast night I opened the results sheet for the men's 10,000m final at the Asia...
Asian Games Day 6: The Times Nobody Wrote Behind the Historic MedalsAt two in the morning a results sheet landed on my Chattogram desk. Names wer...
A Silver With an Empty Column: India's Athletics on Day Six of the Asian Games and the Arithmetic of Missing DataThe Column Nobody Filled In The Day Six results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya lande...
A Golden Narrative Without a Clock: Athletics' Unfinished Ledger on Asian Games Day 6Hook: 4.15 metres, and one empty box I read the Day 6 results sheet of the 20...
Three Failures, Twelve Months, One Yearless September 18: When Anti-Doping Itself Becomes a Timing System1. Hook September 18. A date, a name, and two numbers — 3 and 2. Everything...
The Machine That Stopped Samba-Mayela Was Never Even Wired Up in DhakaThe document that landed in my inbox on Friday evening ran to exactly two...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The September 18 Ledger Entry, a Whereabouts Breach, and the Gap Between Procedure and DopingHook: One Line of Confirmation Last Friday, reading the Athletics Integrity...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: Two Clocks, and the Arithmetic Nobody Wants to RunHook On my desk in a Sylhet studio I keep two screens. One carries Cyrena...
The 'Historic' 4.15 Metres — and the Empty Box Beside the 10,000mThe first thing that caught my eye on the Aichi-Nagoya results sheet was an...
Under 4.15 Metres, the Times Nobody Wrote Down: Asian Games Day 6, India's Medals, and Our Empty TracksThe number still glowing on the scoreboard at the Aichi-Nagoya pole vault apr...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Box: Auditing the Asian Games 100m RecordMymensingh District Stadium, 2026. I sat in the third row of the divisional...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Wind Box: The Record Nagoya Has Not Yet Signed9.91 Seconds and an Empty Wind Box: The Record Nagoya Has Not Yet Signed The...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Breach: The Number Missing from the AIU FileThe date of September 18 is, for now, the most expensive record of Cyrena...
The Unclosed Ledger of 9.91 Seconds: A Record That Has Not Yet Been Cleared by the WindPaloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the closing week of September, a semifinal i...
The Times Nobody Printed: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and the Empty Column in the LedgerThe Times Nobody Printed Open the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya and t...
The Time Missing From the Ledger: Asian Games Day 6 and Bangladesh's Empty ColumnsThe results sheet for Day 6 arrived at my desk a little after seven in the...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: The Results Sheet Has No Times, the Headlines Have 'History'Four names on the results sheet. Gulveer Singh — men's 10,000m, silver. Visha...
9.91 and an Empty Wind Box: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Semifinal Record, and a Ledger That Is Not Closed YetHook: The Box That Stayed Empty When the board in Nagoya put a name next to...
The September 18 Suspension: Where the Word 'Doping' Came From in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's CaseOn Friday the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed that French hurdler...