Athletics
AthleticsThe ‘History’ at 4.15 Metres, and the Times Nobody Wrote Down2026-09-26Two kinds of result came off the Aichi-Nagoya track yesterday. On one side,...
AthleticsA Truth Bigger Than Medals: India's Data Void in Athletics on Day 6 of the Asian Games2026-09-26On September 24, 2026, at Aichi-Nagoya, India secured its first shooting gold...
AthleticsNo Banned Substance, Still a Sanction: Whereabouts and the Grey Law of Cyrena Samba-Mayela2026-09-26The Athletics Integrity Unit's statement came out last Friday. Beside me on t...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Headline Says Suspension, the File Says a Date2026-09-26Every athletics story on my desk arrives with one question: what was the time...
The ‘History’ at 4.15 Metres, and the Times Nobody Wrote DownTwo kinds of result came off the Aichi-Nagoya track yesterday. On one side,...
9.91 in Nagoya: A Record, an Empty Cell, and a Wind That Has Not Been Measured YetIt was one in the morning in Liverpool. Three tabs open on the laptop — a liv...
A Truth Bigger Than Medals: India's Data Void in Athletics on Day 6 of the Asian GamesOn September 24, 2026, at Aichi-Nagoya, India secured its first shooting gold...
Eight Weeks, Two Peaks: Gulveer Singh's Two Silvers and the Asian Games' Invisible StopwatchHook: An Eight-Week Load Curve Eight weeks. Between Glasgow in July and...
No Banned Substance, Still a Sanction: Whereabouts and the Grey Law of Cyrena Samba-MayelaThe Athletics Integrity Unit's statement came out last Friday. Beside me on t...
A Medal Without a Clock: India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6, and Bangladesh's Blank PageI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. When I opened the...
4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: The Asian Games Medals Written Without a Single TimeAichi-Nagoya, 2026 Asian Games, Day 6. On the results board beside Baranica...
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Headline Says Suspension, the File Says a DateEvery athletics story on my desk arrives with one question: what was the time...
4.15 Metres, One Missing Time, and Day Six's Biggest Hole: Reading India's Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games4.15 Metres, One Missing Time, and Day Six's Biggest Hole When Baranica...
Four Medals, Zero Timing Certificates: Reading India's Athletics Day Six at the Asian GamesI first heard the stopwatch mutiny in the silence of an empty stadium. In 202...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: Four Athletics Results With No Times Attached — And Why That Absence Is the Real StoryI opened the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya in the late evening. On th...
The Empty Box Next to 9.91: Boonson's Record, the Missing Wind Gauge, and an Unfinished ClaimLate September, Nagoya. Evening light falls at an angle across the Paloma...
The 9.91 Ledger: A Record Still Waiting on the WindThe scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium read 9.91. Puripol Boonson of Thailan...
The Missing Column: India's Athletics on Day 6 at Aichi-Nagoya, and the Data Nobody RecordedThe official results sheet from Day 6 at Aichi-Nagoya carries four athletics...
No Times, No Stopwatch, Still History: What Is Missing From the Day 6 Athletics Sheet at Asian Games 2026Hook: The Result Sheet With No Times On It I first heard the stopwatch mutiny...