Athletics
China's Youth Storm in Nagoya: The Questions Buried in a 70.46m Javelin and an 11.06s Sprint
Shanti Pereira Reaches 100m Semifinals in 11.43 Seconds, but Performance Questions Remain
The Blank Sheet: Bangladesh Athletics' Biggest Record Is the One Nobody Wrote Down
The Results Sheet With Empty Boxes: Bangladeshi Athletics' Real Deficit
The Results Sheet With No Times: The Analysis That Heard the Gun and Never Left the Blocks
Eliud Kipchoge Defies Age at 41: Melbourne Course Record Signals a New Chapter in His CareerA Legend Returns to the Melbourne Stadium When spectators at the Melbourne...
China's Youth Storm in Nagoya: The Questions Buried in a 70.46m Javelin and an 11.06s SprintWhen 18-year-old Yan Ziyi threw the javelin 70.46 meters on her first attempt...
Vietnam's Asian Games Failure: The Real Ledger Behind a Four-Gold Target That Was Never FeasibleWhen our boys and girls were training in Bangkok, Vietnam's sports leadership...
Shanti Pereira Reaches 100m Semifinals in 11.43 Seconds, but Performance Questions RemainShanti Pereira reached the women's 100m semifinals at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026...
32 Minutes 32 Seconds: How Sindh's First Gold Exposes Pakistan's Race-Walking CrisisMorning session at NED University track, Karachi. Day one of Pakistan's 54th...
Empty Analysis, Big Lesson: A New Standard of Data Integrity in Sports ReportingThe toughest test in sports journalism arrives when the desk is empty but the...
The Blank Sheet: Bangladesh Athletics' Biggest Record Is the One Nobody Wrote DownThe page is blank. Last week I opened a file on the desk and found the...
Four Meet Records, Zero Marks: What the Diyagama Ledger Left BlankFour Meet Records, Zero Marks: What the Diyagama Ledger Left Blank Two words...
The Results Sheet With Empty Boxes: Bangladeshi Athletics' Real DeficitWomen's 100m final, National Athletics Championships, Dhaka. Twelve starters....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Sentence Measured a Forged Prescription, Not an InjectionIn March, Ruti Aga won a half marathon in China. No winning time is recorded...
The Results Sheet With No Times: The Analysis That Heard the Gun and Never Left the BlocksA results sheet has a box marked NM — no mark. The long jumper takes three...
The Testimony of an Empty Cell: In Bangladesh's Sprint Archive, What Is Not Written Is the Loudest DataTwo in the morning. A laptop open in a room in Barishal. In the top-left cell...
A Few Millimetres Against 42,195 Metres: The Caliper That Took Back an Asian Games GoldThere was no contest in the final kilometre — only arithmetic. When...
The 10,000 Metres of Uncertainty: Vietnam's Medal Expectation and the Data Gap at the Asian GamesWhen I opened the 24 September schedule, the first thing that struck me was n...
The Colombo Marathon Ledger: One Thousand Runners in the Shadow of 8,500The press note from Lanka Sportreizen arrived, and the first thing I did was...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place and the Time Nobody Wrote DownRain was hitting the tin roof of my room in Rangpur, and on the laptop screen...
The 92.62 m Javelin: Sri Lanka's Lone Thrower and the Wind Gauge That Stayed EmptyDecember 2026. The third day of the National Athletics Championships in Dhaka...