Athletics
VPIM 2026: A Course Record Six Minutes Faster, and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody Mentions
140 Doping Sanctions and a 2029 World Championships Ticket: What Is Actually Improving in Kenya?
Tragedy at Seoul Race 2026: The Death of Amateur Runner Yoo Ji-won and the Gaps in Race Safety
Rumesh Tharanga and the 92.62m Throw: Sri Lanka's Record Needs Verification Before Belief
Chicago: Seven World Records and the Gaps Beyond the Finish Line
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Race Record Is Not a National RecordOn December 6, the marathon pack turned onto the first ramp of Long Bien...
VPIM 2026: A Course Record Six Minutes Faster, and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody MentionsAt 01:30, the start gate by Hoan Kiem Lake opened for the 42.195km. It is an...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Depth Problem of an 11,000-Runner MarathonThe finish-line clock at VPIM 2026 stopped at 2:47:52. Pham Thi Hong Le raise...
Bolt Stunned by $150,000 Prize: When Athletics Reprices ItselfIn a hotel in Budapest, on the eve of the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate...
Keely Hodgkinson's 12-Month Speed Suit: When Technology Wears a Fashion CloakOn the evening of 19 September, at StoneX Stadium in north London, Keely...
Ultimate Championship: $150,000 per title and the calendar gap nobody has filledUsain Bolt stood beside the prize board of the World Athletics Ultimate...
Kipruto Wins 2026 Chicago Marathon in 2:01:09 as Feysa Holds Off Lokedi in the Final MileColumbus Drive, Grant Park, 11 October 2026. The finish clock rolled to 2:01:...
Kipruto Wins Chicago Marathon in 2:01:09, Feysa Retains Women's Title, Debrunner Sets Wheelchair World RecordWhen Amos Kipruto entered the final two kilometers of the Chicago Marathon,...
Berlin Marathon: Assefa Loses the World Record in the Final 2km to Her Foot, Adola Wins with a Lesson from Age 35The clock on the Berlin course stopped at 2:11:04. Tigst Assefa crossed the...
Nairobi 2029: Africa Gets the Keys to the World Championships — and the 1,795-Metre Question Nobody Is AskingIn Nairobi, the air is thinner. You take a breath and your lungs know...
140 Doping Sanctions and a 2029 World Championships Ticket: What Is Actually Improving in Kenya?Sebastian Coe told reporters in Nairobi that Kenya's fight against doping is...
Nairobi 2029 and the Unresolved Equation of Kenyan AthleticsNairobi will host the 2029 World Athletics Championships — the first time an...
Nairobi 2029: Kenya, the AIU and a Test of TrustI still remember the smell of the locker-room corridor in Shenyang, in the...
Yoo Ji-won, the Last 500 Meters, and the Blind Spot of Mass-Participation RacingOn the morning of October 11, the Seoul temperature dropped below 15 degrees...
Tragedy at Seoul Race 2026: The Death of Amateur Runner Yoo Ji-won and the Gaps in Race SafetyOn the morning of October 11, 2026, at the 24th Seoul Race, a large-scale roa...
92.62 Meters and an Unverified Gap: Decoding Rumesh Tharanga's Javelin ThrowA night in Rome, a long runway, the javelin leaving the hand, and the...
Rumesh Tharanga and the 92.62m Throw: Sri Lanka's Record Needs Verification Before BeliefIn my data room in Nha Trang, I opened a file on a Sri Lankan javelin thrower...
Kipchoge breaks Melbourne Marathon course record at 41: 2:09:10 and the eight-and-a-half-minute gap to peakOn a course that wound through the F1 circuit precinct before turning into th...
Rumesh Tharanga and the 92.62-Metre Javelin: A Sri Lankan Feat Awaiting VerificationFrom the virtual grandstand, I heard my heart beat in rhythm with the match....
Data Gaps in the V.League: When the Silence of the Numbers Becomes the Most Reliable SignalThe season has just closed, and I opened my personal database and stopped at ...
Chicago: Seven World Records and the Gaps Beyond the Finish LineA marathon course 42.195 km long, with just 8 metres of difference between it...
Mile 18, Mile 20: The Cardiac-Screening Gap After the Death of a 25-Year-Old MarathonerAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon, a wife leaned across the barrier and...
Portland Marathon, a 25-Year-Old Heart, and the Screening Gap Mass-Participation Sport Has Not ClosedAt the 29th kilometre of the Portland Marathon, a woman stood by the barrier...
When a young talent is all hype: the nine layers of verification for a youth-talent archaeologistTokyo, one October morning. I sat before a three-hundred-page dossier, where...
Athletics and the Empty Cell in Injury Files: The Cost of Missing DataI open an athletics injury file and find exactly the structure I always use: ...
