Athletics
Olyslagers, a $75,000 silver and athletics' economic test
Six Checkpoints Before Trusting a Vietnamese Athletics Medal
Reading an Athletics Result: Wind, Altitude and the Grey Zone Behind Every Finish Line
The Silence of the Track: When Sports Analysis Must Learn to Say 'I Don't Know'
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Final: The Data Gap in Women's Middle Distance
Olyslagers, a $75,000 silver and athletics' economic testThe night in Budapest ended with a number that did not please Nicola...
Quach Thi Lan Retires at 29: The Last Sediment Layer of Vietnam's 400m Track3 minutes 14.54 seconds. The number sat on the scoreboard in Hangzhou, in the...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: Bahrain's Gap in the 10,000m and the Real Ceiling Behind Two Bronze MedalsIn the final 400 metres of the men's 10,000m final, Gulveer Singh accelerated...
2:29:07 and $700,000: When a Nurse Outruns the Media MachineShe crossed the finish line in Xi'an on October 18, 2026, with a time of...
The Empty Wind Column: What Vietnamese Women's Athletics Loses When Results Arrive Without ContextOn an afternoon at a provincial stadium, the electronic board flashed the...
When the Source Returns an Empty File: Sports Desks and the Temptation to Fill the SilenceAt 6:40 in the morning, a document landed in my downloads folder in New York....
Yasmina Toxanbayeva's Asian Games gold stripped: shoe compliance, appeal and the data gapWhen the Asian Games technical official asked to inspect Yasmina Toxanbayeva'...
Hong Le, Anh Khoi and the Record of a Fifteen-Thousand-Runner RaceAt 4:50 on the morning of October 4, near the Flag Tower in Hanoi, a voluntee...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind VPIM 2026's Gold Medals Lies a Marathon Culture Still Below the ThresholdAt 01:30 on December 6, as the clock above Long Bien Bridge ticked over, more...
Vietnamese Athletics: Reading the 1500m Track Through Data, Not MedalsIn the women's 1500m final at the 32nd SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Nguyễn Thị Oa...
Chicago and Seven Marathon World Records: A Flat Course Does Not Make a RecordLake Michigan on an October morning is so flat that the Chicago skyline appea...
The Death at Mile 20 of the Portland Marathon and the Cardiac Screening Gap for Recreational RunnersAt mile 18, his wife kissed him. A small, quick gesture, the kind people make...
Nine Dimensions of a Track and Field PerformanceIn the analysis room in Tokyo, my colleague pointed at the screen and asked t...
Husbands Carry Wives in a Race at Can Gio: A Community Playground on the Sidelines of the HDBank Green MarathonHusbands Carry Wives in a Race at Can Gio: A Community Playground on the...
Wife-Carrying Race at Can Gio: A Community Stage on the Sidelines of the HDBank Green MarathonIn Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City, hundreds of spectators gathered to wat...
The 9-Second Wall: The Post-Bolt Era and the Race of Thousandths of a SecondThe moment a stopwatch cannot handle On the night of August 4, 2026, at the...
Six Checkpoints Before Trusting a Vietnamese Athletics MedalI keep in the desk drawer of my office in Nha Trang a file that has almost...
Nine Layers of Reading an Athletics Report: From a Mark to the Conditions That Produced ItIn the summer of 2026, at Hoa Xuan Stadium, I called striker Ha Duc Chinh “Du...
Reading an Athletics Result: Wind, Altitude and the Grey Zone Behind Every Finish LineOn a 100-metre track at a domestic athletics meet, a young athlete surges...
The Silence of the Track: When Sports Analysis Must Learn to Say 'I Don't Know'When I opened that document, I counted nine sections. Nine sections, nine...
The Blank Analysis and the Line Between Insight and Fabrication in SportThree weeks of waiting, and a document that left me sitting in silence for a...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Final: The Data Gap in Women's Middle Distance"Nobody wrote about that final, so I wrote it." That is what I told myself wh...
Quach Thi Lan Retires at 29: The Last Sediment Layer of Vietnam's 400m Track3 minutes 14.54 seconds. The number sat on the scoreboard in Hangzhou, in the...
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: Bahrain's Gap in the 10,000m and the Real Ceiling Behind Two Bronze MedalsIn the final 400 metres of the men's 10,000m final, Gulveer Singh accelerated...
2:29:07 and $700,000: When a Nurse Outruns the Media MachineShe crossed the finish line in Xi'an on October 18, 2026, with a time of...
The Empty Wind Column: What Vietnamese Women's Athletics Loses When Results Arrive Without ContextOn an afternoon at a provincial stadium, the electronic board flashed the...
When the Source Returns an Empty File: Sports Desks and the Temptation to Fill the SilenceAt 6:40 in the morning, a document landed in my downloads folder in New York....
Yasmina Toxanbayeva's Asian Games gold stripped: shoe compliance, appeal and the data gapWhen the Asian Games technical official asked to inspect Yasmina Toxanbayeva'...
Hong Le, Anh Khoi and the Record of a Fifteen-Thousand-Runner RaceAt 4:50 on the morning of October 4, near the Flag Tower in Hanoi, a voluntee...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: Behind VPIM 2026's Gold Medals Lies a Marathon Culture Still Below the ThresholdAt 01:30 on December 6, as the clock above Long Bien Bridge ticked over, more...
Vietnamese Athletics: Reading the 1500m Track Through Data, Not MedalsIn the women's 1500m final at the 32nd SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Nguyễn Thị Oa...
Chicago and Seven Marathon World Records: A Flat Course Does Not Make a RecordLake Michigan on an October morning is so flat that the Chicago skyline appea...
The Death at Mile 20 of the Portland Marathon and the Cardiac Screening Gap for Recreational RunnersAt mile 18, his wife kissed him. A small, quick gesture, the kind people make...
Nine Dimensions of a Track and Field PerformanceIn the analysis room in Tokyo, my colleague pointed at the screen and asked t...
Husbands Carry Wives in a Race at Can Gio: A Community Playground on the Sidelines of the HDBank Green MarathonHusbands Carry Wives in a Race at Can Gio: A Community Playground on the...
Wife-Carrying Race at Can Gio: A Community Stage on the Sidelines of the HDBank Green MarathonIn Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City, hundreds of spectators gathered to wat...
The 9-Second Wall: The Post-Bolt Era and the Race of Thousandths of a SecondThe moment a stopwatch cannot handle On the night of August 4, 2026, at the...
Six Checkpoints Before Trusting a Vietnamese Athletics MedalI keep in the desk drawer of my office in Nha Trang a file that has almost...
Nine Layers of Reading an Athletics Report: From a Mark to the Conditions That Produced ItIn the summer of 2026, at Hoa Xuan Stadium, I called striker Ha Duc Chinh “Du...
Reading an Athletics Result: Wind, Altitude and the Grey Zone Behind Every Finish LineOn a 100-metre track at a domestic athletics meet, a young athlete surges...
The Silence of the Track: When Sports Analysis Must Learn to Say 'I Don't Know'When I opened that document, I counted nine sections. Nine sections, nine...
The Blank Analysis and the Line Between Insight and Fabrication in SportThree weeks of waiting, and a document that left me sitting in silence for a...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Final: The Data Gap in Women's Middle Distance"Nobody wrote about that final, so I wrote it." That is what I told myself wh...