Athletics
The Ledger Logged 3:22:20 — Then Someone Measured a Sole
The 9.90-Second Story: What a Viral Athletics Report Contains — and What It Leaves Out
The Empty Column Is the Diagnosis: Who Never Wrote Bangladesh's Sprint Injury Archive
Clock vs. Crowd: Asian Games Gold Stripped Over Shoes, Kazakhstan Appeal Exposes Timing and Distance Gaps
AthleticsVPIM 2026: Hanoi Marathon in the Light of Records and the Shadow of VerificationThe VPBank Hanoi International Marathon 2026, or VPIM 2026, concluded with a...
AthleticsThe Ledger Logged 3:22:20 — Then Someone Measured a SoleThe spreadsheet already knew the score before the stadium did. Late September...
AthleticsThe 9.90-Second Story: What a Viral Athletics Report Contains — and What It Leaves OutA sports report circulating across Southeast Asian online platforms has...
AthleticsSouth Korea Raises Concerns Over Asian Games Logistics, Accommodation and Anthem ControversyManagement Failures Behind the Asian Games: South Korea's Complaints Raise...
AthleticsAn Empty Ledger Is Never a Certificate of InnocenceLast month a file landed on my desk — one year of grant accounts from the...
AthleticsThe 27 September Athletics Card: Three Names, One Load Collision, and the Data That Has Not ArrivedOn the fixture sheet for the 27 September Asian Games athletics session, not...
AthleticsHong Le and Anh Khoi Win Hanoi Marathon: A Development-Level Race Behind the RecordsHook Pham Thi Hong Le won the women's marathon at the fifth Hanoi Techcombank...
AthleticsThe Blank Results Sheet: Auditing Data Absence in Bangladesh AthleticsThe file opened on my Chattogram desk on a February morning. Twenty-two...
AthleticsThe Empty Column Is the Diagnosis: Who Never Wrote Bangladesh's Sprint Injury ArchiveOn 12 August 2026, at London Stadium, the men's 4x100m relay final reached it...
AthleticsA Yearless Wire Copy: Seven Seconds at the New York City Marathon and the Two-to-One LedgerThe men's top three finished within 25 seconds of each other. The women's top...
AthleticsHanoi's 1:30 AM: The Record, the Bridges, and the Invisible Question at VPIM MarathonI was looking at the clock. 1:30 AM. The mist had not yet settled on the...
AthleticsAssefa Falls Short of World Record After Late Collapse in BerlinTigst Assefa’s Berlin Marathon changed character during the final two...
AthleticsWhen the Track Became a Fashion Runway: From Ashford to Hodgkinson’s Speed SuitIn 2026, Evelyn Ashford stepped onto the track in Albuquerque wearing a...
AthleticsAutopsy of an Empty Dataset: The Documented Crisis of Bangladesh's Sprint RecordsAn admission first. I have no fresh match data in hand at this moment. No eve...
AthleticsVietnam's Star Drought at the Asiad: An Instrument-First Reassessment from a Chattogram DeskThe results sheet in my hand is not from these Asian Games. It is a scrapbook...
AthleticsYellow Light on the Pattern: Vietnam's Medal-Less Athletics in the Asian Games LedgerSixth in the women's high jump, fifth in the women's 4x400m relay, last in th...
AthleticsBetween the Ledger and the Rumor: The Unseen Side of Puripol and Chen Yujie's Asian Games ClaimsIn my 34 years of sports journalism, I have seen one thing repeatedly: when a...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan: Where Vietnam's Quarter-Mile Anchor Leg Comes to a StopWhen one of Vietnamese athletics' most recognisable quarter-mile faces...
AthleticsClock vs. Crowd: Asian Games Gold Stripped Over Shoes, Kazakhstan Appeal Exposes Timing and Distance GapsThe Rangpur audit began when the clock disagreed with the crowd. That habit h...
AthleticsMAS Clinch Record 8th Straight Mercantile Athletics Title With 548-Point DominanceMAS Holdings secured their eighth consecutive team title at the 41st Annual...
AthleticsNYC Marathon: The 2:06:01 Has No Year Beside ItIt was quarter to three in the morning in Liverpool. The stream stuttered onc...
AthleticsThe Record of Having No Records: Bangladesh Athletics and the Data DroughtLast week a document landed on my desk. The title field was empty. The summar...
AthleticsBeneath the 2:18:31, a Date That Still Doesn't ReconcileThe clock at the Sydney finish line stopped at 2:18:31. Irene Chepet Cheptai,...
AthleticsNine Golds, Zero Euros: The Correction Buried in the 2028 Prize-Fund LedgerI watched Birmingham's nine-gold nights on a television feed with a printed...
AthleticsRuti Aga: Six-Year Ban Over Forged Prescription Effectively Ends a Marathon CareerThe professional career of Ethiopian marathon runner Ruti Aga is effectively...
AthleticsThe Race Nobody Wrote DownThe women's 100m final at the National Athletics Championships. Before the ca...