Athletics
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan Retires: When Vietnam's 400m Track Closes One Era and Opens a Question Nobody Dares to AskShe stood at the starting line, head bowed, hands on hips, taking one long...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and How China's Women's Road Circuit Prices a StoryAt 4:40 in the morning, the phone buzzes against the desk in the on-call room...
AthleticsThe Silence of Athletics Data: When an Empty Sheet Reads as a Clean RecordAt seven in the morning in Tokyo, I opened the results file from a Continenta...
AthleticsThe Empty Dossier: When an Injury Report Carries Zero Data PointsMinute 68 at Gò Đậu stadium, the home side's left winger put his hand to the...
AthleticsNairobi 2029 and the Altitude Variable: World Athletics Takes Its Flagship Championships to Africa for the First TimeThere is an old clip I return to whenever I need reminding why athletics is t...
AthleticsBednarek completes 100m-200m double in Budapest: 9.85 seconds and a blank cell named windThe clock on the Budapest track stopped at 9.85 seconds. In the same week,...
AthleticsTwelve Days, Five Sports, Thirteen Regions: Giorgos Tsianos' Traverse of Greece and the Gap in the NumbersThe southernmost tip of Europe sits at Gavdos, a small island below Crete whe...
AthleticsLong Jump, 200m and 4x100m Relay: Vietnamese Women's Athletics on September 27The timetable I printed out on the evening of September 26 gave athletics...
AthleticsKaçkar by UTMB Second Edition: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and the Injury Data VoidFog once swallowed the whole thing. In the first edition, the Governor of Riz...
AthleticsWorld Athletics Holds the Russia and Belarus Ban: The 'Integrity' Line Meets the CAS ClockBudapest, the final day of the Ultimate Championship. Sebastian Coe sits down...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: A 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody MentionsAt 01:30 the surface of Long Bien Bridge has no golden lamps, only the sound ...
Athletics2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Hanoi Course Records, and the Story Beneath the NumbersAt 1:30 in the morning, on the approach ramp to Long Bien Bridge, the...
Athletics2:47:52 in Hanoi: When the Course Runs Faster Than the ExpectationAt 1:30 in the morning, Hanoi was still covered in mist. The first pair of...
AthleticsVan Trang: 4 Hours 26 Minutes on Lao Than Peak and an Answer That Needed No CameraThe twelfth frame of the 2026 Y Ty Golden Season race was not at the finish...
AthleticsTwo Vietnamese Finishers at Tor des Géants 330 km: The Finish Is Real, and So Is the 70-Hour Gap138 hours 40 minutes. On the Tor des Géants results board, that line sits...
AthleticsVan Trang's 4:26 on Lao Than: When a Medal Gets Read Through the Wrong LensThe clock above the finish arch in Y Ty stopped at 4 hours 26 minutes on the...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: World Athletics hands Africa the championships, and the 1,795-metre variable nobody mentionedAt 5:40 in the morning I stand at the edge of Ngong Road, watching seven wome...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: World Athletics Chooses Africa, 1,795 Metres of Altitude, and a Governance GambleThis month, at World Athletics headquarters, a decision was announced: Nairob...
AthleticsCoe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsWorld Athletics President Sebastian Coe has offered an optimistic assessment ...
AthleticsCoe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World ChampionshipsIn a statement delivered in Nairobi, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe...
