Athletics
Records Without a Wind Reading: The Data Gap Holding Back Vietnamese Women's AthleticsLate afternoon at a women's long jump qualifying round of the national...
Vietnamese Sport Has Two Transfer Markets, and Both Are Running on Empty DataIn June, in a meeting room in Nha Trang, a scouting file on a 22-year-old...
MAS Holdings and an eighth mercantile athletics title: 548 points, 27 meet records and the gap behind themDiyagama Stadium, late afternoon, and the only sound left after each race is...
When the Athletics Data Sheet Comes Back EmptyEleven at night in Osaka, the printer in the corner of the office pushes out ...
The Empty Cells in Vietnam's Athletics Results SheetsThe women's 1500 m final results sheet at a national athletics meet carried...
Yoo Ji-won: The Last 500 Metres and What the Results Sheet Leaves Out08:49 on the morning of 11 October, Seoul Plaza. Mist still sat on the asphal...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: The Three-Minute Gap in Sydney and the Void Nobody FilledAt the 40-kilometre mark, on the harbour road in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir wa...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Course Record Is Not a Performance BreakthroughIn recent months, I have been closely monitoring mass-participation marathon...
The Former Nurse and 700,000 USD from Marathons: When Feet Rewrite DestinyOn the morning of October 18, 2026, at the Xi'an Marathon, a 34-year-old woma...
Chinese Former Nurse and 700,000 USD from Marathon: When Speed Is No Longer the Only StoryThere was a moment in Xi'an, on October 18, 2026, when the clock stopped at...
The Former Nurse and Her 700,000 USD from Marathons: A Youth Athletics Archaeologist's ViewIn the J3 stratum of the distance running world, I found a name that appears ...
A Blank Data Sheet and the Wind-Altitude Check Vietnamese Athletics Keeps SkippingAt 2:14 in the morning in Nairobi, a deconstruction sheet for a Vietnamese...
VPIM 2026: Course Record Falls by Six Minutes, but Vietnam's Apex Stays 20 Minutes Off Olympic StandardAt 1:30 in the morning, the marathon pack left the start line while Hanoi was...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Ceiling Remains 21 Minutes From the Olympic StandardAt 9:30 pm Nairobi time I opened my phone. In Hanoi it was 1:30 am, and the...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Depth Problem of Vietnamese Marathon RunningAt 1:30 in the morning, Hanoi was still under mist. The 42.195km field of VPI...
Giorgos Tsianos’s 12-Day Traverse of Greece: A Telemetry Test Between Mountains, Sea and a Live ScreenBefore dawn in Ormenio, at Greece’s northern edge, the light had not yet...
From Albuquerque 2026 to Sydney 2026: The Sediment Layers of Track and Field ApparelIn the winter of 2026, inside an indoor arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
Vietnamese Sport Has Two Transfer Markets, and Both Are Running on Empty DataIn June, in a meeting room in Nha Trang, a scouting file on a 22-year-old...
MAS Holdings and an eighth mercantile athletics title: 548 points, 27 meet records and the gap behind themDiyagama Stadium, late afternoon, and the only sound left after each race is...
When the Athletics Data Sheet Comes Back EmptyEleven at night in Osaka, the printer in the corner of the office pushes out ...
The Empty Cells in Vietnam's Athletics Results SheetsThe women's 1500 m final results sheet at a national athletics meet carried...
Yoo Ji-won: The Last 500 Metres and What the Results Sheet Leaves Out08:49 on the morning of 11 October, Seoul Plaza. Mist still sat on the asphal...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: The Three-Minute Gap in Sydney and the Void Nobody FilledAt the 40-kilometre mark, on the harbour road in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir wa...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Course Record Is Not a Performance BreakthroughIn recent months, I have been closely monitoring mass-participation marathon...
The Former Nurse and 700,000 USD from Marathons: When Feet Rewrite DestinyOn the morning of October 18, 2026, at the Xi'an Marathon, a 34-year-old woma...
Chinese Former Nurse and 700,000 USD from Marathon: When Speed Is No Longer the Only StoryThere was a moment in Xi'an, on October 18, 2026, when the clock stopped at...
The Former Nurse and Her 700,000 USD from Marathons: A Youth Athletics Archaeologist's ViewIn the J3 stratum of the distance running world, I found a name that appears ...
A Blank Data Sheet and the Wind-Altitude Check Vietnamese Athletics Keeps SkippingAt 2:14 in the morning in Nairobi, a deconstruction sheet for a Vietnamese...
VPIM 2026: Course Record Falls by Six Minutes, but Vietnam's Apex Stays 20 Minutes Off Olympic StandardAt 1:30 in the morning, the marathon pack left the start line while Hanoi was...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Ceiling Remains 21 Minutes From the Olympic StandardAt 9:30 pm Nairobi time I opened my phone. In Hanoi it was 1:30 am, and the...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Depth Problem of Vietnamese Marathon RunningAt 1:30 in the morning, Hanoi was still under mist. The 42.195km field of VPI...
Giorgos Tsianos’s 12-Day Traverse of Greece: A Telemetry Test Between Mountains, Sea and a Live ScreenBefore dawn in Ormenio, at Greece’s northern edge, the light had not yet...
From Albuquerque 2026 to Sydney 2026: The Sediment Layers of Track and Field ApparelIn the winter of 2026, inside an indoor arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
