Athletics
A 2:41:55 and the Hollow Floor of Vietnam's Elite Funnel
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The Suspension File Contains No Times, and That Gap Is the Real Crisis
No Data, Yet a Sanction: Auditing the AIU's Provisional Suspension of Cyrena Samba-Mayela in the Whereabouts Case
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: India's Four Athletics Returns and One Missing Number
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: From a Hundredth-of-a-Second Final to a Paperwork Docket
A 2:41:55 and the Hollow Floor of Vietnam's Elite FunnelI was reading a live blog with a stopwatch running. It is an occupational hab...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The Suspension File Contains No Times, and That Gap Is the Real CrisisIn Paris last year, during the 100m hurdles final, I did something I never...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: India's Four Athletics Returns and One Missing NumberAsian Games 2026, Day 6: India's Four Athletics Returns and One Missing Numbe...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: From a Hundredth-of-a-Second Final to a Paperwork DocketOn August 10, 2026, at 1:40 in the morning Dhaka time, I watched the women's...
The 9.91 Gap: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record in Nagoya, and the Data Still MissingThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91 the moment...
Three Unknown Misses, One Date, Two Years of Shadow: The Number Nobody Wrote in the Cyrena Samba-Mayela CaseThe eighteenth of September. No track, no starting blocks, no wind reading. A...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Where the Medals Were There and the Times Were NotI opened the Day 6 results sheet and the first name my eye caught was Gulveer...
9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Semifinal — Not History, an Unverified Claim9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Semifinal — Not History, a...
No Data, Yet a Sanction: Auditing the AIU's Provisional Suspension of Cyrena Samba-Mayela in the Whereabouts CaseI begin with the ledger, and the legend arrives later. Cyrena Samba-Mayela, a...
Three Failures, Twelve Months, One Calendar: The Arithmetic Behind Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe women's 100m hurdles final at Paris 2026 finished inside three hundredths...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Charge Is Paperwork, Not SubstanceOn Friday the Athletics Integrity Unit confirmed that the French hurdler Cyre...
9.91 Seconds: The Record Still Waiting on a Wind GaugeNagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, semifinal one. The scoreboard reads 9.91. On...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The Suspension File Contains No Times, and That Gap Is the Real CrisisIn Paris last year, during the 100m hurdles final, I did something I never...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: India's Four Athletics Returns and One Missing NumberAsian Games 2026, Day 6: India's Four Athletics Returns and One Missing Numbe...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: From a Hundredth-of-a-Second Final to a Paperwork DocketOn August 10, 2026, at 1:40 in the morning Dhaka time, I watched the women's...
The 9.91 Gap: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record in Nagoya, and the Data Still MissingThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91 the moment...
Three Unknown Misses, One Date, Two Years of Shadow: The Number Nobody Wrote in the Cyrena Samba-Mayela CaseThe eighteenth of September. No track, no starting blocks, no wind reading. A...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: Where the Medals Were There and the Times Were NotI opened the Day 6 results sheet and the first name my eye caught was Gulveer...
9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Semifinal — Not History, an Unverified Claim9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Semifinal — Not History, a...
No Data, Yet a Sanction: Auditing the AIU's Provisional Suspension of Cyrena Samba-Mayela in the Whereabouts CaseI begin with the ledger, and the legend arrives later. Cyrena Samba-Mayela, a...
Three Failures, Twelve Months, One Calendar: The Arithmetic Behind Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe women's 100m hurdles final at Paris 2026 finished inside three hundredths...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Charge Is Paperwork, Not SubstanceOn Friday the Athletics Integrity Unit confirmed that the French hurdler Cyre...
9.91 Seconds: The Record Still Waiting on a Wind GaugeNagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, semifinal one. The scoreboard reads 9.91. On...