Athletics
Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: Where the Real Question Is Data, Not Doping
The September 18 Suspension: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case, the Decision Lives Where the Facts Are Missing
The Silence of a Schedule: How One Asiad Diary Entry for 27 September Buried Vietnam's Hamstring Risk
The 9.91 Ledger: A Thai Teenager's Asian Games Record in Nagoya, and the Wind Reading Nobody Quoted
AthleticsThe Silence of a Schedule: How One Asiad Diary Entry for 27 September Buried Vietnam's Hamstring RiskHook: The Line With No Numbers On the 27 September entry of an Asiad daily...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Ledger: A Thai Teenager's Asian Games Record in Nagoya, and the Wind Reading Nobody QuotedAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, on the evening of the semifinals, the boa...
AthleticsThe Calendar Is the Sentence: Reading Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe 100m hurdles was never a continuous sprint. Thirteen metres from the bloc...
AthleticsThe 4.15-Metre Bronze and the Empty Cell: Reading Asian Games Day 6 Athletics from a Rangpur Tea StallAt half past midnight in Rangpur, the projector at the tea stall near...
AthleticsThe Wind Column Is Blank: Puripol Boonson's 9.91 and an Unsealed Block in Asia's Sprint LedgerThe Wind Column Is Blank: Puripol Boonson's 9.91 and an Unsealed Block in...
AthleticsThe Empty Wind Cell: Thailand's 9.91 Seconds and an Incomplete Record BookI was watching the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya when it lit ...
AthleticsThai Speedster Puripol Boonson: The Story of Breaking the Asian Games Record in 9.91 SecondsWhen 9.91 seconds flashed on the clock at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya,...
AthleticsThe Blank Column: India's Four Athletics Results on Asian Games Day 6 and the Numbers Nobody PublishedI did not look at the photograph first. I looked at the results sheet. On the...
AthleticsBefore the 9.91: Reading Puripol Boonson's Record Ledger in NagoyaThe clock at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium stopped at 9.91 seconds. Before t...
AthleticsThe Ledger Entry of September 18: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Hurdles Account BookSeptember 18. On that page of my diary, nothing else happened that day. The...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: Where the Real Question Is Data, Not DopingOn August 10, 2026, deep in the Khulna night, a microphone borrowed from a...
AthleticsThe September 18 Suspension: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case, the Decision Lives Where the Facts Are MissingA date was entered into athletics' administrative calendar last Friday:...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds and the Empty Wind ColumnOn the evening after the September 24 qualifying rounds at Nagoya's Paloma...
AthleticsThe 9.91 That Still Awaits the Wind GaugeThe anemometer at the edge of the track at Paloma Mizuho Stadium speaks first...