Athletics
32:32.40 in Karachi: Mahnoor Fatima's Race Walk Gold and the 12-Minute Gap in Pakistani Athletics
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Gap Behind Sindh's First Gold
Twelve Days Across Greece in Five Sports: When a Human Body Becomes a Field Laboratory
Bednarek's Budapest sprint double: when the data rewrites the 'silver man' label
32:32.40 in Karachi: Mahnoor Fatima's Race Walk Gold and the 12-Minute Gap in Pakistani AthleticsOn the electronic board at NED University in Karachi, the clock stopped at...
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Gap Behind Sindh's First GoldThe running loop around NED University in Karachi is 400 metres. The women's...
Twelve Days Across Greece in Five Sports: When a Human Body Becomes a Field LaboratoryOn day one, the traverse left Ormenio, the northernmost tip of Greece, a few...
Kenny Bednarek's Budapest Sprint Double: When the 'Silver Man' Ran Slower Than Himself and Still WonIn Budapest, when Kenny Bednarek crossed the line in the 200 metres, I was...
Bednarek's Budapest sprint double: when the data rewrites the 'silver man' labelThe clock stopped at 9.85 seconds. On the track in Budapest, Kenneth Bednarek...
Amber Heard and the 1:39 in Donostia: Rereading a Personal Milestone Between Two Extremes of Public OpinionThe Donostia course was soaked. Spectators lined the route, umbrellas over...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: A Revival After Seven Years and the Unfinished Tropical VerdictThe night before race day, I sat in the corridor of a small hotel facing the...
Silent Track: When Athletics Data ShattersRussia 2026: I watched the data shatter before my eyes. I was 17 then, sittin...
Nine Layers of Reading a Track Result: Notes from Kenyan RunningNine Layers of Reading a Track Result: Notes from Kenyan Running On a Tuesday...
Naomi Korir and the Commonwealth Games Final: What the Scoreboard Doesn't ShowGlasgow, the night of the women's middle-distance final. Naomi Korir finishes...
The 400m Track With No Grandstand: The Balance Sheet Vietnamese Women's Athletics Never PublishedOn May 9, 2026, at Morodok Techo Stadium in Phnom Penh, Nguyen Thi Oanh stepp...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: 42.195 km Between Tropical Humidity and a Sport in ReconstructionThe course begins at the gates of the Bandaranaike Memorial International...
Quach Thi Lan Retires: The 400m Lane and the Records No One CountsThere is a moment I still keep in my notebook, written in pencil because I wa...
Quach Thi Lan Retires: The 3:14.54 and a Role Nobody NamedThe day Quach Thi Lan announced her retirement from international competition...
Twelve Days, Five Sports, One Body: Giorgos Tsianos and the Field Laboratory Across GreeceI once stayed up all night just to follow a single stream of physiological...
The Blank Cell: Vietnamese Women's Athletics and the Results Nobody RecordedTHE BLANK CELL: VIETNAMESE WOMEN'S ATHLETICS AND THE RESULTS NOBODY RECORDED ...
Samba-Mayela Suspended: A Whereabouts File and the Void in the Women's 100m HurdlesOn September 18, 2026, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) published a short...
The 0.02-second gap in Nagoya: Shanti Pereira and a heat that was never meant to be wonOn September 24, at Mizuho Park in Nagoya, the women's 100m heats closed with...
The Blank Field in Athletics Records: When Data Disappears, Who Benefits?In November 2026, I opened a forty-page file on the doping control programme ...
European Athletics prize money era shifts: £3m across 50 events, who benefits?The 2028 European Athletics Championships in Silesia, Poland will distribute ...
Silesia 2028's £3m Prize Fund: When European Athletics Stopped Paying for Marks and Started Paying for PlacesNine golds, and not a single payment Birmingham, closing night of the Europea...
2028 European Athletics Championships: Record £3m Prize Fund and the New Game for the Top EightAt the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain and...
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Gap Behind Sindh's First GoldThe running loop around NED University in Karachi is 400 metres. The women's...
Twelve Days Across Greece in Five Sports: When a Human Body Becomes a Field LaboratoryOn day one, the traverse left Ormenio, the northernmost tip of Greece, a few...
Kenny Bednarek's Budapest Sprint Double: When the 'Silver Man' Ran Slower Than Himself and Still WonIn Budapest, when Kenny Bednarek crossed the line in the 200 metres, I was...
Bednarek's Budapest sprint double: when the data rewrites the 'silver man' labelThe clock stopped at 9.85 seconds. On the track in Budapest, Kenneth Bednarek...
Amber Heard and the 1:39 in Donostia: Rereading a Personal Milestone Between Two Extremes of Public OpinionThe Donostia course was soaked. Spectators lined the route, umbrellas over...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: A Revival After Seven Years and the Unfinished Tropical VerdictThe night before race day, I sat in the corridor of a small hotel facing the...
Silent Track: When Athletics Data ShattersRussia 2026: I watched the data shatter before my eyes. I was 17 then, sittin...
Nine Layers of Reading a Track Result: Notes from Kenyan RunningNine Layers of Reading a Track Result: Notes from Kenyan Running On a Tuesday...
Naomi Korir and the Commonwealth Games Final: What the Scoreboard Doesn't ShowGlasgow, the night of the women's middle-distance final. Naomi Korir finishes...
The 400m Track With No Grandstand: The Balance Sheet Vietnamese Women's Athletics Never PublishedOn May 9, 2026, at Morodok Techo Stadium in Phnom Penh, Nguyen Thi Oanh stepp...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: 42.195 km Between Tropical Humidity and a Sport in ReconstructionThe course begins at the gates of the Bandaranaike Memorial International...
Quach Thi Lan Retires: The 400m Lane and the Records No One CountsThere is a moment I still keep in my notebook, written in pencil because I wa...
Quach Thi Lan Retires: The 3:14.54 and a Role Nobody NamedThe day Quach Thi Lan announced her retirement from international competition...
Twelve Days, Five Sports, One Body: Giorgos Tsianos and the Field Laboratory Across GreeceI once stayed up all night just to follow a single stream of physiological...
The Blank Cell: Vietnamese Women's Athletics and the Results Nobody RecordedTHE BLANK CELL: VIETNAMESE WOMEN'S ATHLETICS AND THE RESULTS NOBODY RECORDED ...
Samba-Mayela Suspended: A Whereabouts File and the Void in the Women's 100m HurdlesOn September 18, 2026, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) published a short...
The 0.02-second gap in Nagoya: Shanti Pereira and a heat that was never meant to be wonOn September 24, at Mizuho Park in Nagoya, the women's 100m heats closed with...
The Blank Field in Athletics Records: When Data Disappears, Who Benefits?In November 2026, I opened a forty-page file on the doping control programme ...
European Athletics prize money era shifts: £3m across 50 events, who benefits?The 2028 European Athletics Championships in Silesia, Poland will distribute ...
Silesia 2028's £3m Prize Fund: When European Athletics Stopped Paying for Marks and Started Paying for PlacesNine golds, and not a single payment Birmingham, closing night of the Europea...
2028 European Athletics Championships: Record £3m Prize Fund and the New Game for the Top EightAt the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain and...
