Athletics
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place With No Mark in the Glasgow Athletics Final
The Nameless Shoe: When an Asian Games Gold Was Erased From the Record
A 15,000-Runner Race Beside Ha Long Bay: What Is Being Counted, and What Is Not Being Measured
0.045 Seconds on the Blocks: The Frame Where Usain Bolt's Ending Began
Budapest Opening Night: The Interrogation of Numbers Behind the Shine
Amy Hunt, 22.10 Seconds, and the Data Grey Zone of the Women's 200m
When the Track Is No Longer the Destination: A View from a Former Long-Distance Record HolderIn the past three months, I have received four phone calls from young athlete...
Mai Trung leads Dan Quyet by 10 metres in the 42km at VnExpress Marathon Nghe An 2026At exactly 3am, while Ho Chi Minh Square was still submerged in the pale yell...
The Bottom Layer of Vietnamese Athletics: A Results Board No One ReadsOn a results board taped hastily to the corner of stand B, a name printed in...
Asiad 20 Closes in Aichi-Nagoya: Vietnam Misses Its 4-Gold Target, China Tops with 169 GoldsOne beat late, I saw the match begin at the twelfth frame. For the Asiad that...
The Empty Columns: Vietnamese Women's Athletics and Its Data SilenceOn the electronic scoreboard at a national athletics meet, in lane four, a...
Asian Games Closing: Vietnam Finishes 19th With Three Golds, and a Silence on the TrackOn closing night, the Games flag passed from the host nation's hands to the...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place and the Gap the Clock Cannot MeasureIn Glasgow, on an afternoon when the scoreboard recorded not a single time,...
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place With No Mark in the Glasgow Athletics FinalIn an athletics results sheet, there is one blank cell that always makes me...
Colombo's route and the recovery lesson Danang hasn't noticedOn the sands of Lien Chieu, where Le Van Tuan once left worn-out shoe prints,...
When gold medals return from doping bans: Vietnamese athletics and the silence before Aichi-Nagoya 2026On the women's 400m hurdles track at Jakarta 2026, Quach Thi Lan finished...
548 points, a 242-point gap, and the real-value problem of 27 athletics meet recordsThe final score of the 41st Mercantile Athletics Championship was published,...
Asiad 20: Marathon Race Walk Gold Stripped Over Shoe SoleOn September 28, 2026, on the road circuit around Aichi–Nagoya, Yasmina...
The Nameless Shoe: When an Asian Games Gold Was Erased From the RecordThat morning in the athletes' village, Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish...
One Man, Twelve Days, Thirteen Regions: Giorgos Tsianos's Greek Traverse Through the Lens of Sports DataWhen a Human Body Becomes a Measuring Point At Ormenio — the northernmost poi...
12 Days, 5 Sports, 1 Body: When Giorgos Tsianos Became Greece's AI Field LaboratoryOver 12 consecutive days, Giorgos Tsianos travelled from Ormenio, the...
The Seventy-Metre Gap: Yan Ziyi, Puripol Boonson and the Reshaping of Asian AthleticsDay eight. Yan Ziyi stood at the javelin runway, rain misting across her...
Assefa Collapses in Berlin's Final Two Kilometres: 2:11:04 Is the Second-Fastest Women's Marathon in HistoryBerlin, a city course flat as a tabletop, sun pouring down. Tigst Assefa...
Wind, Altitude and the Honest Footprint: How to Read a Track Before Trusting the Number"One beat late, I saw the race begin at the twelfth frame." That frame was...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's five athletics medals and the suspicious silence of dataFive athletics results. Two quantifiable numbers. That is all the Day 6 Asian...
When the Track Got Dressed: Four Decades of Athletics Fashion from Albuquerque 2026 to Sydney 2026In February 2026, inside an indoor arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Evelyn...
Mai Trung leads Dan Quyet by 10 metres in the 42km at VnExpress Marathon Nghe An 2026At exactly 3am, while Ho Chi Minh Square was still submerged in the pale yell...
The Bottom Layer of Vietnamese Athletics: A Results Board No One ReadsOn a results board taped hastily to the corner of stand B, a name printed in...
Asiad 20 Closes in Aichi-Nagoya: Vietnam Misses Its 4-Gold Target, China Tops with 169 GoldsOne beat late, I saw the match begin at the twelfth frame. For the Asiad that...
The Empty Columns: Vietnamese Women's Athletics and Its Data SilenceOn the electronic scoreboard at a national athletics meet, in lane four, a...
Asian Games Closing: Vietnam Finishes 19th With Three Golds, and a Silence on the TrackOn closing night, the Games flag passed from the host nation's hands to the...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place and the Gap the Clock Cannot MeasureIn Glasgow, on an afternoon when the scoreboard recorded not a single time,...
Naomi Korir and a Fifth Place With No Mark in the Glasgow Athletics FinalIn an athletics results sheet, there is one blank cell that always makes me...
Colombo's route and the recovery lesson Danang hasn't noticedOn the sands of Lien Chieu, where Le Van Tuan once left worn-out shoe prints,...
When gold medals return from doping bans: Vietnamese athletics and the silence before Aichi-Nagoya 2026On the women's 400m hurdles track at Jakarta 2026, Quach Thi Lan finished...
548 points, a 242-point gap, and the real-value problem of 27 athletics meet recordsThe final score of the 41st Mercantile Athletics Championship was published,...
Asiad 20: Marathon Race Walk Gold Stripped Over Shoe SoleOn September 28, 2026, on the road circuit around Aichi–Nagoya, Yasmina...
The Nameless Shoe: When an Asian Games Gold Was Erased From the RecordThat morning in the athletes' village, Yasmina Toxanbayeva crossed the finish...
One Man, Twelve Days, Thirteen Regions: Giorgos Tsianos's Greek Traverse Through the Lens of Sports DataWhen a Human Body Becomes a Measuring Point At Ormenio — the northernmost poi...
12 Days, 5 Sports, 1 Body: When Giorgos Tsianos Became Greece's AI Field LaboratoryOver 12 consecutive days, Giorgos Tsianos travelled from Ormenio, the...
The Seventy-Metre Gap: Yan Ziyi, Puripol Boonson and the Reshaping of Asian AthleticsDay eight. Yan Ziyi stood at the javelin runway, rain misting across her...
Assefa Collapses in Berlin's Final Two Kilometres: 2:11:04 Is the Second-Fastest Women's Marathon in HistoryBerlin, a city course flat as a tabletop, sun pouring down. Tigst Assefa...
Wind, Altitude and the Honest Footprint: How to Read a Track Before Trusting the Number"One beat late, I saw the race begin at the twelfth frame." That frame was...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's five athletics medals and the suspicious silence of dataFive athletics results. Two quantifiable numbers. That is all the Day 6 Asian...
When the Track Got Dressed: Four Decades of Athletics Fashion from Albuquerque 2026 to Sydney 2026In February 2026, inside an indoor arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Evelyn...
