Athletics
AthleticsThe Hood, the Bodysuit and 1:56.40 — What Athletics Fashion Never Says Out Loud2026-11-04Athlos London 2026, the 800 metres final. Keely Hodgkinson crosses the line i...
AthleticsThe Ledger Nobody Kept Behind 10.29 Seconds2026-10-17A 2026 evening at the National Stadium track. The 100m final is over, the...
AthleticsKenya’s Doping Fight: 140 Sanctions, the Nairobi 2029 Runway, and the Arithmetic Behind Coe’s ‘Progress’ Claim2026-10-14Standing in the thin air of Nairobi’s 1,700 metres, Sebastian Coe tells...
Athletics9.91 Seconds and an Empty Anemometer: The Nagoya Semifinal Record That Is Not Yet Ratified2026-09-26Night in Nagoya. Eight lanes at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, a twenty-year-old in...
Seven World Records on Chicago's Flat Roads, and One Asterisk in the LedgerI read the course profile of the 48th Chicago Marathon three times, because t...
The Data Monk's Mask: When Analysis Is Absent In The Name Of AnalysisI kept a spreadsheet open. The columns were clear: Event, Athlete, Performanc...
After 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir's Suspension and the Start Date of an AnnulmentThe clock at the Sydney finish line read 2:18:31. I have not been able to fin...
Sports Analysis Trapped in Empty Data: A Track and Field ReadingWhen I see an empty results sheet in track and field, I stop. The blank space...
The Hood, the Bodysuit and 1:56.40 — What Athletics Fashion Never Says Out LoudAthlos London 2026, the 800 metres final. Keely Hodgkinson crosses the line i...
One Second in Copenhagen: Ngetich's 1:05:15 and the New Ledger of Women-Only Half MarathonCopenhagen, 20 September, Sunday morning. On a flat loop beside the harbour,...
Peres Jepchirchir: 2:18:31, One Sample, and the Gap Between Two DatesPast the 35-kilometre mark of the Sydney Marathon there is nobody alongside...
The Date Buried Beneath 2:18:31At three in the morning I opened a laptop looking for a name and found a ledg...
2:18:31 and a Date: In the Jepchirchir Case, the Evidence Is Time, Not a MedalThe applause in the grandstand thinned out after the thirtieth kilometre of t...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Championships, and the Half Nobody CountsI wrote two numbers side by side on the same sheet, because the habit is old...
Where the Suit Outran the Clock: Keely Hodgkinson's 1:56.40 and the Arithmetic of a Speed SuitThe clock at StoneX Stadium stopped at 1:56.40 on the night of 19 September....
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 01:30 Start, Three Bridges and a Soft Race RecordAt 01:30 the first runners step onto the Long Bien bridge, and the only light...
The Quiet Violence of an Empty Dataset: When the Analysis Becomes the EvidenceIt begins with an empty cell. The cursor blinks in cell B4 of the spreadsheet...
The Ledger Nobody Kept Behind 10.29 SecondsA 2026 evening at the National Stadium track. The 100m final is over, the...
The Blank Cell and the False Zero: Sports Record Integrity and What Blockchain Actually DoesIn early 2026 an analysis report landed on my desk. It looked flawless. Every...
Kenya's Doping Fight, Nairobi 2029, and a Number With No Annual RateOn an October evening, the projector at a tea stall beside Carmichael College...
Kenya’s Doping Fight: 140 Sanctions, the Nairobi 2029 Runway, and the Arithmetic Behind Coe’s ‘Progress’ ClaimStanding in the thin air of Nairobi’s 1,700 metres, Sebastian Coe tells...
Chicago Marathon 2026: Kipruto's Revenge and Feysa's Repeat — The Ledger Nobody BalancesThe final bend of the last mile. The Chicago course is so flat that you canno...
Chicago Marathon: A Course Flatter Than Berlin, a Record Ledger That Will Not Balance2:09:56 — when Ruth Chepngetich's time went up on the clock at the 2026 Chica...
The Empty Analysis Sheet: Missing Data Is the Real Story of Bangladeshi Women's AthleticsI counted the other half, and the number kept rewriting itself. In 2026, the...
Empty Ledger, Big Promise: Blockchain's Claim on Athletics Records and the Data GapI begin with the ledger, and the legend arrives later. Last week I opened a...