Athletics
No Times on the Results Sheet: What Day 6 of the Asian Games Actually Said
The Empty First Line of the Ledger: In the Samba-Mayela Case There Is No Time, Only a September 18 Date
Three Gaps in the Whereabouts File: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Real Ledger of Anti-Doping
Nagoya's 9.91: The Record in the Headline, the Empty Box in the File
Half a Leap: Four Vietnamese Women on the Nagoya Track, and a Count Nobody Kept
Half a Leap: Four Vietnamese Women on the Nagoya Track, and a Count Nobody Kept27 September 2026. Nagoya Central Stadium. Fifty points in the day's live...
The Shadow of September 18: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Question Is Time, Not SubstanceStade de France, Paris, August 2026. The women's 100m hurdles final ended wit...
Medals Without Times: Aichi-Nagoya Day Six and the Mirror of an Empty LedgerMedals Without Times: Aichi-Nagoya Day Six and the Mirror of an Empty Ledger...
The 9.91 Ledger: Thailand's Teenager, Asia's Old Ledger, and One Empty Wind BoxHook: The Number Arrived, the Witness Didn't Late September, Nagoya. A number...
No Times on the Results Sheet: What Day 6 of the Asian Games Actually SaidI read a results sheet backwards, starting from the last line. Holding the...
9.91 Seconds, and a Record the Wind Has Not Yet ClearedThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium read 9.91 well before one...
The Empty Cell in the Load Curve: India's Day 6 Medals in Aichi-Nagoya and the Time Nobody RecordedHook: The Cell Left Empty The men's 10,000m final at Aichi-Nagoya ended, and...
4.15 Metres and an Empty Timing Column: India's Four Athletics Medals on Asian Games Day 6 — and Zero DataOn the afternoon of Day 6 at the Aichi-Nagoya athletics venue, four Indian...
Asian Games 2026: The Missing Timing Sheet Is the Real Story, Not the Silver and BronzesHook: India's athletics result sheet on Day 6 of the 2026 Asian Games shows...
9.91 Seconds and a 0.01 Record: Where Thailand's Teenage Sprint Mark Is Still Stuck on the Wind Gauge9.91 Seconds and a 0.01 Record: Where Thailand's Teenage Sprint Mark Is Still...
9.91 Seconds, and the Wind Column Left BlankThe results screen at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed a name, a number...
Asian Games Day 6: Three Medals, Zero Timing GatesThe medals are here. The clock isn't. Day 6 at Aichi-Nagoya produced India's...
The Empty First Line of the Ledger: In the Samba-Mayela Case There Is No Time, Only a September 18 DateAfter the Paris 2026 100m hurdles final I wrote one word beside Cyrena...
September 18: The Silver Hurdler's Real Opponent Is Now the ClockThe Paris 2026 100m hurdles final ended with Cyrena Samba-Mayela holding silv...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Cell: Who Will Measure the Wind Behind Puripol Boonson's Record?The most expensive instrument at Paloma Mizuho Stadium that evening was the...
Three Gaps in the Whereabouts File: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Real Ledger of Anti-DopingThe studio light in Chattogram had just gone off when the line came through:...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Match-Plan Here Is a Calendar Date, Not a Track TimeSeptember 18. On the athletics calendar this date carries nothing — no Diamon...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Date Is on the Record, the Failure Count Is NotThe notice came from the Athletics Integrity Unit on Friday, and my eye stopp...
Nagoya's 9.91: The Record in the Headline, the Empty Box in the FileAfter the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91, the most importan...
One Suspension, Two Clocks: Auditing Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseOn September 18 a sanction was imposed, and the first thing I opened the file...
9.91 Seconds, and the Number That Wasn't on the ScoreboardPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. The men's 100m semifinal at the 2026 Asian Gam...
The Shadow of September 18: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Question Is Time, Not SubstanceStade de France, Paris, August 2026. The women's 100m hurdles final ended wit...
Medals Without Times: Aichi-Nagoya Day Six and the Mirror of an Empty LedgerMedals Without Times: Aichi-Nagoya Day Six and the Mirror of an Empty Ledger...
The 9.91 Ledger: Thailand's Teenager, Asia's Old Ledger, and One Empty Wind BoxHook: The Number Arrived, the Witness Didn't Late September, Nagoya. A number...
No Times on the Results Sheet: What Day 6 of the Asian Games Actually SaidI read a results sheet backwards, starting from the last line. Holding the...
9.91 Seconds, and a Record the Wind Has Not Yet ClearedThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium read 9.91 well before one...
The Empty Cell in the Load Curve: India's Day 6 Medals in Aichi-Nagoya and the Time Nobody RecordedHook: The Cell Left Empty The men's 10,000m final at Aichi-Nagoya ended, and...
4.15 Metres and an Empty Timing Column: India's Four Athletics Medals on Asian Games Day 6 — and Zero DataOn the afternoon of Day 6 at the Aichi-Nagoya athletics venue, four Indian...
Asian Games 2026: The Missing Timing Sheet Is the Real Story, Not the Silver and BronzesHook: India's athletics result sheet on Day 6 of the 2026 Asian Games shows...
9.91 Seconds and a 0.01 Record: Where Thailand's Teenage Sprint Mark Is Still Stuck on the Wind Gauge9.91 Seconds and a 0.01 Record: Where Thailand's Teenage Sprint Mark Is Still...
9.91 Seconds, and the Wind Column Left BlankThe results screen at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed a name, a number...
Asian Games Day 6: Three Medals, Zero Timing GatesThe medals are here. The clock isn't. Day 6 at Aichi-Nagoya produced India's...
The Empty First Line of the Ledger: In the Samba-Mayela Case There Is No Time, Only a September 18 DateAfter the Paris 2026 100m hurdles final I wrote one word beside Cyrena...
September 18: The Silver Hurdler's Real Opponent Is Now the ClockThe Paris 2026 100m hurdles final ended with Cyrena Samba-Mayela holding silv...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Cell: Who Will Measure the Wind Behind Puripol Boonson's Record?The most expensive instrument at Paloma Mizuho Stadium that evening was the...
Three Gaps in the Whereabouts File: Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Real Ledger of Anti-DopingThe studio light in Chattogram had just gone off when the line came through:...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Match-Plan Here Is a Calendar Date, Not a Track TimeSeptember 18. On the athletics calendar this date carries nothing — no Diamon...
Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Date Is on the Record, the Failure Count Is NotThe notice came from the Athletics Integrity Unit on Friday, and my eye stopp...
Nagoya's 9.91: The Record in the Headline, the Empty Box in the FileAfter the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91, the most importan...
One Suspension, Two Clocks: Auditing Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseOn September 18 a sanction was imposed, and the first thing I opened the file...
9.91 Seconds, and the Number That Wasn't on the ScoreboardPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. The men's 100m semifinal at the 2026 Asian Gam...