Athletics
The Empty Column in Vietnamese Athletics' Injury Records
Three golds from 348 athletes: auditing Vietnam's Asian Games delegation after the closing ceremony
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41 — What the Data Actually Says
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place That Cannot Be Measured by the Clock
Bednarek and the Budapest Double: When the 'Silver Man' No Longer Wants to Stand Behind
The Chinese Former Nurse and the 2:29:07 Equation: When Injury Is a Verdict Written in AdvanceThere is a moment in Chinese women's marathon running that I cannot look away...
The Track Without Medals: What Happens When Women's Athletics Data Goes MissingFor the past three weeks, I have been reopening the same dataset of Southeast...
The Empty Column in Vietnamese Athletics' Injury RecordsLate in the 2026 season, I reopened the Mật mã chấn thương Việt dataset — 547...
Usain Bolt, $150,000 and the Empty Cell in World Athletics' SpreadsheetBudapest, a late-August evening. Usain Bolt sits in a press room in a suit an...
Three golds from 348 athletes: auditing Vietnam's Asian Games delegation after the closing ceremonyOn closing night, before the stands went dark, the Olympic Council of Asia...
Six Minutes and Five Seconds in Hanoi: A Course Record, and the Real Ceiling of Vietnamese Marathon Running01:30, north end of Long Bien Bridge The starting gun for the longest distanc...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind VPIM 2026's 'Record-Breaking' MedalEarly on race morning, before the city had even begun to stir outside the...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind the VPIM 2026 Medals Lies an Interrogation of Vietnam's Road Running ClassHanoi in November is dry, cool enough, and windless. A woman crosses the fini...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Behind the Finish LineOn race morning, the finish-line clock rolled to 2:47:52 exactly as Pham Thi...
VPIM 2026: The Women's Champion Reached SEA Games Medal Pace. The Men's Champion Did Not.The start-line clock read 01:30. Behind it were more than 11,000 registered...
1:39 in San Sebastián: Decoding Amber Heard's Half Marathon With an Injury SpreadsheetThe San Sebastián course was soaking wet that morning. Photographs taken from...
Four Records, One Contradiction: When the Data of a Corporate Athletics Meet Refuses to Stand StillThree days, one stadium, four meet records — and one line of result at the...
Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04: The Women's Marathon World Record Slipped at the Foot, Not at the SpeedAt kilomet 40, Tigst Assefa was still 10 seconds ahead of world-record pace....
Yoo Ji-won, Seoul Race 2026, and the Safety Gap of a Ballooning Running EcosystemOn the morning of October 11, 2026, the temperature in Seoul sat around 14...
1:22:01 and the Data Gap Beyond the Seoul Finish Line8:49 a.m., an October morning in Seoul. Yoo Ji-won entered the 21st kilometre...
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage and the 92.62m Javelin: The Silence That Hasn't Been VerifiedIn Rome, on an afternoon of a season the organisers billed as a "landmark...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41 — What the Data Actually SaysMinute 128. Eliud Kipchoge turns into the tunnel leading into the Melbourne...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41: 2:09:10 and the 8-Minute-35-Second Gap to the World RecordWhen Eliud Kipchoge ran into the tunnel leading toward the Melbourne Cricket...
Chicago Marathon 2026: Kipruto's 2:01:09 and why the headline picked the wrong raceThe final mile in Chicago, Feysa never looked back. Behind her, Lokedi had...
Portland Marathon: When the Mass-Running Boom Outgrew Its Cardiac ScreeningAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon — kilometre 29 — Trey Lara's wife stood a...
When Women's Sports Competes With No Camera Pointed at ItIn 2026, in the third row of a small stadium in Chengdu, I counted 127...
When Sports Analysis Loses Its Data: A Lesson for Vietnamese Athletics JournalismThe sports desk received the analysis at nine in the morning. The editor open...
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place That Cannot Be Measured by the ClockNaomi Korir's competition record from the Commonwealth Games athletics final ...
Nagoya 2026 women's race walk: gold changes hands over a shoe absent from the approved listOn September 27, in Nagoya, Japan, Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish lin...
The Track Without Medals: What Happens When Women's Athletics Data Goes MissingFor the past three weeks, I have been reopening the same dataset of Southeast...
The Empty Column in Vietnamese Athletics' Injury RecordsLate in the 2026 season, I reopened the Mật mã chấn thương Việt dataset — 547...
Usain Bolt, $150,000 and the Empty Cell in World Athletics' SpreadsheetBudapest, a late-August evening. Usain Bolt sits in a press room in a suit an...
Three golds from 348 athletes: auditing Vietnam's Asian Games delegation after the closing ceremonyOn closing night, before the stands went dark, the Olympic Council of Asia...
Six Minutes and Five Seconds in Hanoi: A Course Record, and the Real Ceiling of Vietnamese Marathon Running01:30, north end of Long Bien Bridge The starting gun for the longest distanc...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind VPIM 2026's 'Record-Breaking' MedalEarly on race morning, before the city had even begun to stir outside the...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind the VPIM 2026 Medals Lies an Interrogation of Vietnam's Road Running ClassHanoi in November is dry, cool enough, and windless. A woman crosses the fini...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Behind the Finish LineOn race morning, the finish-line clock rolled to 2:47:52 exactly as Pham Thi...
VPIM 2026: The Women's Champion Reached SEA Games Medal Pace. The Men's Champion Did Not.The start-line clock read 01:30. Behind it were more than 11,000 registered...
1:39 in San Sebastián: Decoding Amber Heard's Half Marathon With an Injury SpreadsheetThe San Sebastián course was soaking wet that morning. Photographs taken from...
Four Records, One Contradiction: When the Data of a Corporate Athletics Meet Refuses to Stand StillThree days, one stadium, four meet records — and one line of result at the...
Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04: The Women's Marathon World Record Slipped at the Foot, Not at the SpeedAt kilomet 40, Tigst Assefa was still 10 seconds ahead of world-record pace....
Yoo Ji-won, Seoul Race 2026, and the Safety Gap of a Ballooning Running EcosystemOn the morning of October 11, 2026, the temperature in Seoul sat around 14...
1:22:01 and the Data Gap Beyond the Seoul Finish Line8:49 a.m., an October morning in Seoul. Yoo Ji-won entered the 21st kilometre...
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage and the 92.62m Javelin: The Silence That Hasn't Been VerifiedIn Rome, on an afternoon of a season the organisers billed as a "landmark...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41 — What the Data Actually SaysMinute 128. Eliud Kipchoge turns into the tunnel leading into the Melbourne...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41: 2:09:10 and the 8-Minute-35-Second Gap to the World RecordWhen Eliud Kipchoge ran into the tunnel leading toward the Melbourne Cricket...
Chicago Marathon 2026: Kipruto's 2:01:09 and why the headline picked the wrong raceThe final mile in Chicago, Feysa never looked back. Behind her, Lokedi had...
Portland Marathon: When the Mass-Running Boom Outgrew Its Cardiac ScreeningAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon — kilometre 29 — Trey Lara's wife stood a...
When Women's Sports Competes With No Camera Pointed at ItIn 2026, in the third row of a small stadium in Chengdu, I counted 127...
When Sports Analysis Loses Its Data: A Lesson for Vietnamese Athletics JournalismThe sports desk received the analysis at nine in the morning. The editor open...
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place That Cannot Be Measured by the ClockNaomi Korir's competition record from the Commonwealth Games athletics final ...
Nagoya 2026 women's race walk: gold changes hands over a shoe absent from the approved listOn September 27, in Nagoya, Japan, Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish lin...
