Athletics
Suspension, Whereabouts and 12.34: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's File Is Still IncompleteMy notebook keeps a column most 100m hurdles coverage does not: the gap betwe...
A Blank Cell Beside 9.91: Puripol Boonson, a Games Record, and the Wind That Has Not Been MeasuredThe Clock and the Empty Cell The number burned on the scoreboard at Paloma...
Puripol Boonson's 9.91: The Wind Column on the Record Receipt Is Still Blank1. That Evening at Paloma Mizuho Nagoya, Paloma Mizuho Stadium, September 25,...
No Document, No Number, Only a Date: The Samba-Mayela Case and Bangladesh's Empty ArchiveHook: Nothing in the Copy but a Date The copy hit my screen on an evening in...
The Silence on the Timing Board: How Big Was India's Athletics Day in Aichi-Nagoya?The scoreboard was not showing a number in the final four hundred metres of t...
Asian Games Day 6: Four Indian Athletics Medals and the Numbers Missing From the Result SheetThe scoreboard at the Aichi-Nagoya pole vault apron lit up with the word...
The September 18 Provisional Suspension: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case Is About Paperwork, Not DopingHook The 2026 National Athletics Championships, women's 100m final. Twelve...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Wind Cell: The Unfinished Ledger of a Record in NagoyaI went looking for a competition and found a ledger instead. Scrolling Nagoya...
4.15 Metres, and the Numbers Nobody Wrote DownAt the Aichi-Nagoya pole vault mat, Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15 metres. A...