Athletics
World Athletics Holds the Russia Ban: Four Years Unmoved, a Pending CAS Case and the Eligibility Gap
Vietnamese Athletics: Injury Risk Lives in the Empty Data Cells
Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe and the Geographic Gamble of World Athletics
Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World Championships
World Athletics Holds the Russia Ban: Four Years Unmoved, a Pending CAS Case and the Eligibility GapOn 13 September, in Budapest, on the final day of the inaugural Ultimate...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52, 2:31:49, and Three Empty Columns in the SpreadsheetAt 01:30, the corral for the 42.195km opens in Hanoi. December dark, roughly ...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52 on Long Bien Bridge and the Silence the Results Board Never Records1:30 a.m., a night in November 2026. Fog on Long Bien Bridge had dropped so l...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, Yet the Winning Times Stay More Than 20 Minutes Off Olympic StandardAt 01:30 the 42.195km wave of VPIM 2026 left the start line while the asphalt...
When the Data Is Empty: A Lesson in Analytical Discipline in Vietnamese Women's SportsIn 2026, at Thong Nhat Stadium, I sat in stand B, seventh row, during the...
Bolt Marvels at the $150,000 Prize: When Athletics Reprices ItselfOn the virtual grandstand of a September evening, I heard my heart beat in ti...
When the Source Says 'Insufficient Information': An Athletics Reporter Facing a Blank PageI once received a four-page analysis document, opened it, and discovered that...
Jemma Reekie, the European road mile record and the real test over 800 metresThe press release from a city road mile carried a single line: European recor...
Vietnamese Athletics: Injury Risk Lives in the Empty Data CellsIn April, I sat in the corridor of the National Sports Training Centre waitin...
Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe and the Geographic Gamble of World AthleticsI remember the evening in Boston when the World Athletics feed surfaced a sho...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the 1,795-Metre Altitude QuestionFor more than a century of the World Athletics Championships, no African city...
Nairobi 2029 and 140 Sanctions: Sebastian Coe Says Progress, But the Track Has Yet to Sign OffIn 2026, I sat in a small studio in Da Nang and misnamed striker Ha Duc Chinh...
Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsIn the strata of the world athletics scene, there are moments when a number i...
Seoul Race 2026: The Death at Kilometer 21 and the Medical-Infrastructure Gap in the Amateur Running Boom08:49, the morning of 11/10, central Seoul. Yoo Ji-won, 25, collapsed at the...
92.62 Metres in Rome, Not a Single Cited Source: The Sri Lankan Javelin and the Wind Test Nobody RanIn Rome, a javelin left a hand and planted itself in the ground. 92.62 metres...
The 92.62-Meter Throw in Rome and the Wind-Reading Question: Sri Lanka at the Threshold of World JavelinRome, a June afternoon. The Olympic Stadium lay still under the Mediterranean...
Rumesh Tharanga and the 92.62m Throw: Has Sri Lanka Truly Found a New Hero?Slow down by one beat, I see this story doesn't start with the 92.62m throw i...
Chicago Marathon 2026: The Flattest Course in the World and the Price of RecordsFor four decades, no major marathon course on the planet has produced seven...
