Athletics
Naomi Korir in Glasgow: Fifth in the Commonwealth Games Final and the Data Left Blank
VPIM 2026: Two Course Records and a Twenty-Minute Gap to World Standards
The 242-Point Shadow at Diyagama: Sri Lanka's Corporate Athletics and a Lesson for Vietnam's Tracks
Nairobi 2029: The 1,795-Metre Altitude Is the Real Variable of Africa's First World Championships
Naomi Korir in Glasgow: Fifth in the Commonwealth Games Final and the Data Left BlankGlasgow, August. The women's middle-distance final at the Commonwealth Games...
VPIM 2026: Two Course Records and a Twenty-Minute Gap to World StandardsAt 01:30 in the morning, the 42.195km corral left the start line in Hanoi. Dr...
VPIM 2026: When a Course Record Does Not Speak to a Race's Competitive ClassPham Thi Hong Le crossed the line at 2:47:52. Huynh Anh Khoi crossed at...
The Empty Cell: How a Data Gap Is Erasing East African Women AthletesOn a Tuesday morning, I opened the results file from a county-level women's...
The 242-Point Shadow at Diyagama: Sri Lanka's Corporate Athletics and a Lesson for Vietnam's TracksNobody recorded the wind at Diyagama Stadium. That was the first thing I look...
Chicago Marathon: The Stage of Seven World Records and the Unresolved BlursChicago, a morning in October. Grant Park opens under the gray sky...
Asiad 20 Closes in Aichi-Nagoya: 348 Athletes, 3 Golds, and Vietnam's Athletics GapThe Asiad 20 flame went out in Aichi-Nagoya on Sunday night, and in that fina...
Vietnamese Athletics and the Discipline of Data: From Nguyễn Thị Oanh to Bùi Thị Thu ThảoOn the second day of athletics at SEA Games 32 in Phnom Penh, Nguyễn Thị Oanh...
Nairobi 2029: Africa's First World Athletics Championships and the Overlooked Altitude QuestionWhen World Athletics confirmed that Nairobi will host the 2029 World...
Vietnamese Women's Sport and the Data Void Nobody FillsOn July 14, 2026, I opened the statistics file for a national women's athleti...
Nairobi 2029: The 1,795-Metre Altitude Is the Real Variable of Africa's First World ChampionshipsIn March 2026, the World Athletics Council named Nairobi host of the 2029 Wor...
Nairobi 2029: Kenya Athletics and the Audit of 140 Sanctions Before Hosting DayWhen World Athletics President Sebastian Coe stood before the press to discus...
Kenya, 140 Sanctions and the 2029 Ticket: A Doping Problem Without a Data-Driven AnswerIn October, in Nairobi, amid the applause of an announcement event, a data...
Seoul Race 2026 and the Death of Yoo Ji-won: Where Does the Medical Infrastructure of the Mass-Running Boom Stand?At exactly 8:49 in the morning on October 11, 2026, I stood at the eastern ed...
The Two Throws of Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage and the Gap Javelin Has Yet to CloseIn Budapest, at the Ultimate Championship, the final round of the men's javel...
A 92.62-Metre Throw and the Silence No One MeasuredOn the runway of the Rome stadium, the Sri Lankan athlete stood still for a...
Athletics and the Temptation to Fill the Data VoidThe screen in front of me is a blank table. Nine analytical sections,...
Kipchoge Wins Melbourne Marathon: 2:09:10 and the Course Dividend Nobody Wants to DeductThe frame I replayed most this week was not the moment Eliud Kipchoge cut the...
When a Youth Scouting Report Comes Back Empty: The Excavation Begins in the GapMy spreadsheet has exactly three hundred rows. Each row is a name, a date of...
