Athletics
The Ledger's Missing Entry: Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension, the Two-Year Ceiling and the Numbers Nobody Supplied
The Times Nobody Wrote Down: India's Athletics at Asian Games Day 6, and the Gap in the Clock
2:41:55 — The Crack the Vietnamese Marathon Boom's Mirror Just Revealed
Ledger of Nagoya's Silence: Vietnam's Athletics on September 27
2:41:55 — The Crack the Vietnamese Marathon Boom's Mirror Just Revealed2:41:55. That number never lit up a stadium scoreboard. It never made a...
Ledger of Nagoya's Silence: Vietnam's Athletics on September 27The ledger began as a stopwatch ghost, and it still keeps time. On September...
4.15 Metres: A Bronze That Is History, But Not a Map4.15 metres. Baranica Elangovan's bronze is India's first Asian Games pole...
The Ledger's Missing Entry: Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension, the Two-Year Ceiling and the Numbers Nobody SuppliedSeptember 18 was entered into a ledger, and along with it an incomplete set o...
In an Event Decided by Hundredths, the Heaviest Number Is a Date — What the Cyrena Samba-Mayela Case Actually SaysOn the night of the 100m hurdles final at the Stade de France, I was at a des...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The Number Missing From the Suspension HeadlineA suspension headline about an Olympic silver medallist contains its most...
The Receipt With Empty Columns: India's Athletics on Asian Games 2026 Day 6, Bahrain's Team Running, and the True Price of the Word 'Historic'In my notebook, the sixth-day page carried four names and four empty cells...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: A Suspension Without a Clock, and the Number Nobody Has Written YetIn 2026 I was covering a women's final at the Barishal Divisional Stadium wit...
The Times Nobody Wrote Down: India's Athletics at Asian Games Day 6, and the Gap in the ClockHook On the evening of Day 6 at the Aichi-Nagoya Stadium, the men's 10,000m...
The Race With No Times: India's Day 6 Medals at the Asian Games and the Blank Cells in the Results SheetBefore I sit down in the press tribune at Aichi-Nagoya, I take one piece of...
A Whereabouts Breach Is Not a Doping Case: Reading Cyrena Samba-Mayela Through the LedgerThe women's 100m hurdles final at Paris 2026 was decided by hundredths of a...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: A Whereabouts Failure Is Not Doping — A Timing AuditIn Dhaka, the stopwatch stopped being a tool and became a witness. On the nig...
The 9.91 'Record' and the Unseen Wind: What Puripol Boonson's Semifinal Actually Tells UsAt Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, 19-year-old Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson r...