Athletics
Bednarek's Budapest double: reading 9.85 seconds against three silver medalsThe clock on the Budapest straight stopped at 9.85 seconds. Kenneth Bednarek...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Re-reading 2:18:31 in Sydney Through the Data ChainThe clock on the Sydney course stopped at 2:18:31. Irene Chepet Cheptai cross...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the fake prescription weighed heavier than the substanceOn 10 September, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced a six-year ban...
Sindh's First Gold in Karachi and the 15km Gap on the TrackOn the eleventh lap, on the track at NED University, the gap between the lead...
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Gap Behind Sindh's First GoldThe final lap of the women's 5,000m race walk at NED University in Karachi...
Zhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, nearly $700,000, and a gap of 9 minutes 28 secondsOn 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, the timing mat stopped at 2:29:07. To anyone...
The Blank Scouting Report: When Sports Data Goes Silent, the Market Invents Its Own StarsSeven in the morning on a Tuesday in Manila, I opened my inbox and found a...
Empty Reports and Misvalued Medals: The Data Gap Inside Vietnam's Youth AthleticsIn April 2026, at a youth athletics meet in central Vietnam, I opened the...
When Athletics Data Stops Being Numbers: Lessons from an Empty AnalysisThere is a moment in the press room after every athletics meet when all lense...
Anatomy of Vietnam's 3:14.54 in the mixed 4x400m relay: leading after three legs, losing silver by 0.08 secondsAt the third exchange, the board inside the Aichi-Nagoya stadium stopped at...
Two Athletics Places Among Twenty: Singapore and the Classification Question at the 2026 Asian Para GamesOn 12 September 2026, at Gardens by the Bay, James Ethan Ang received the fla...
Ngetich Breaks the Women-Only Half Marathon Record by One Second — and the Real Gap Is in the Word 'Women-Only'The clock above the finish line in Copenhagen stopped at 1:05:15. Agnes Ngeti...
Forty-Two Pages of Data, One Blank Line: Where Vietnamese Sports Analysis Is StuckThe final page of a forty-two-page technical report on a V.League match carri...
Kenyan Women's Athletics and the Data Gap: The Footsteps Nobody RecordedAt six in the morning, Nairobi's mist still clings to lane four at Nyayo...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52 and 2:31:49 — When a Course Record Is Not a Performance BreakthroughAt 01:30 the deck of Long Bien Bridge hums under thousands of feet. No...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Behind It01:30, the gun for the 42.195km went off while Hanoi was still under a layer ...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When VuaBong Cannot Call It a National RecordThe largest marathon ever staged in Hanoi closed with two numbers on the timi...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody Measured01:30. The streets of Hanoi were still damp with dew, streetlights spilling a...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Re-reading 2:18:31 in Sydney Through the Data ChainThe clock on the Sydney course stopped at 2:18:31. Irene Chepet Cheptai cross...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the fake prescription weighed heavier than the substanceOn 10 September, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced a six-year ban...
Sindh's First Gold in Karachi and the 15km Gap on the TrackOn the eleventh lap, on the track at NED University, the gap between the lead...
Mahnoor Fatima, 32:32.40 and the Gap Behind Sindh's First GoldThe final lap of the women's 5,000m race walk at NED University in Karachi...
Zhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, nearly $700,000, and a gap of 9 minutes 28 secondsOn 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, the timing mat stopped at 2:29:07. To anyone...
The Blank Scouting Report: When Sports Data Goes Silent, the Market Invents Its Own StarsSeven in the morning on a Tuesday in Manila, I opened my inbox and found a...
Empty Reports and Misvalued Medals: The Data Gap Inside Vietnam's Youth AthleticsIn April 2026, at a youth athletics meet in central Vietnam, I opened the...
When Athletics Data Stops Being Numbers: Lessons from an Empty AnalysisThere is a moment in the press room after every athletics meet when all lense...
Anatomy of Vietnam's 3:14.54 in the mixed 4x400m relay: leading after three legs, losing silver by 0.08 secondsAt the third exchange, the board inside the Aichi-Nagoya stadium stopped at...
Two Athletics Places Among Twenty: Singapore and the Classification Question at the 2026 Asian Para GamesOn 12 September 2026, at Gardens by the Bay, James Ethan Ang received the fla...
Ngetich Breaks the Women-Only Half Marathon Record by One Second — and the Real Gap Is in the Word 'Women-Only'The clock above the finish line in Copenhagen stopped at 1:05:15. Agnes Ngeti...
Forty-Two Pages of Data, One Blank Line: Where Vietnamese Sports Analysis Is StuckThe final page of a forty-two-page technical report on a V.League match carri...
Kenyan Women's Athletics and the Data Gap: The Footsteps Nobody RecordedAt six in the morning, Nairobi's mist still clings to lane four at Nyayo...
VPIM 2026: 2:47:52 and 2:31:49 — When a Course Record Is Not a Performance BreakthroughAt 01:30 the deck of Long Bien Bridge hums under thousands of feet. No...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le's 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Behind It01:30, the gun for the 42.195km went off while Hanoi was still under a layer ...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When VuaBong Cannot Call It a National RecordThe largest marathon ever staged in Hanoi closed with two numbers on the timi...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap Nobody Measured01:30. The streets of Hanoi were still damp with dew, streetlights spilling a...
