Athletics
AthleticsMahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Limits of a Domestic Gold for PakistanKarachi, the track inside NED University, women’s 5,000m race walk at the 54t...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and the 9:28 GapXi'an, October 18, 2026. The clock above the finish line flicked from 2:29:06...
Athletics2:29:07 and $700,000 — The Two Ledgers of a Former Nurse Who Runs MarathonsNine minutes and twenty-eight seconds. That is the gap between the 2:29:07...
AthleticsWhen an athletics analytics system returns an empty object: no error is raisedAt 3:47 a.m. on August 12, 2026, my analytics tool returned a JSON file. Ever...
AthleticsAn Athletics Report Came Back With Zero Data Points: The Fault Lies in the Pipeline, Not the TrackThe report landed at two in the morning, Osaka time. I opened it the way I...
AthleticsThree women stand last at Rasselbock Backyard Ultra: a first claimed by organisers, unverified by any registerIn the backyard ultra format, no starting gun marks the moment a race ends....
Athletics1:39 in Donostia: When a Running Caption Gets Read as a Sporting FeatRain fell over Donostia from Sunday morning. Spectators lined the pavements...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Lines the Results Board Never ShowsAt 1:12 a.m. on December 6, 2026, at the northern foot of Long Bien Bridge. N...
Athletics2:47:52 Across Three Bridges: Reading VPIM 2026 in Metres of RoadAt 01:30 the Hanoi sky was still black. On the ramp up to Long Bien Bridge...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: 2:47:52, a Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody Measured01:30 in the Morning on Dinh Tien Hoang Street A small truck idled at the ker...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Depth Problem Beneath Vietnam's Marathon BoomThe starting gate opened at 01:30. Hanoi was dry, cool enough, and almost...
AthleticsBolt on Ultimate Championship prize money: $150,000 per individual winBudapest, on the eve of the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship,...
AthleticsAssefa's 2:11:04 in Berlin: a world record lost in the final two kilometresAt the 40th kilometre, Tigst Assefa was no longer running; she was walking. T...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: How 1,795 Metres of Altitude Became Athletics' Biggest Unspoken VariableLast month, World Athletics announced that Nairobi will host the 2029 World...
AthleticsThe Craft of Saying 'Insufficient Data': Where Sports Analysis Ends and Fabrication BeginsOn 22 July 2026, at Eden Park in Auckland, the Vietnam women's national team...
AthleticsThe Empty Spreadsheet: What the Data Did Not Tell MeOn Friday night, a few hours after the competition ended, I reopened my...
AthleticsThe Other Half of the Story on the Track2 a.m. in Shanghai. I reopen the tracking sheet from an indoor athletics meet...
AthleticsNairobi 2029 and the Number 140: Sebastian Coe Grading His Own ExamLast October, in Nairobi, Sebastian Coe stood before the cameras and said Ken...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: Kenya Awarded World Championships as Anti-Doping Fight Awaits Verifiable DataIn August 2026, I sat in front of a screen in Shanghai watching the World U20...

