Athletics
The Archive Nobody Kept: 140 Rows, a 10.29 Second, and the Blank Cell in Bangladesh's Sprint Record Book
The Ledger With No Entries: Bangladeshi Athletics and the Silence of Its Data
330 Kilometres and 24,000 Metres of Climb: The Real Ledger Behind Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants Finishers
The One-Second Audit: Copenhagen's Ledger, Kenya's Marginal Yield, and the Price of 2:23
The Truth of an Empty Dataset: Three Questions Left Before Sports Records Go On-Chain
Speed Suits, Contracts and the Clock: How Many Seconds Does Track Kit Really Cut?
The Truth of an Empty Dataset: Three Questions Left Before Sports Records Go On-ChainWhat landed on my desk last week was not a scoresheet. It was a structure: ni...
The Archive Nobody Kept: 140 Rows, a 10.29 Second, and the Blank Cell in Bangladesh's Sprint Record BookHook In December 2026 I was scrolling a 2026 meet programme on a microfilm...
The Ledger With No Entries: Bangladeshi Athletics and the Silence of Its DataAt the press room of the 2026 Dhaka South Asian Games I learned an odd lesson...
Speed Suits, Contracts and the Clock: How Many Seconds Does Track Kit Really Cut?placeholder
330 Kilometres and 24,000 Metres of Climb: The Real Ledger Behind Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants FinishersOn 19 September, in Italy's Aosta Valley, one clock stopped at 137 hours 50...
The One-Second Audit: Copenhagen's Ledger, Kenya's Marginal Yield, and the Price of 2:23Copenhagen, September 20. The clock stopped at 1:05:15. Exactly one second...
Four Records, Zero Marks: Sri Lanka's Mercantile Meet and Bangladesh's Unfinished LedgerThe 41st Mercantile Athletic Federation Meet closed on 21–23 August at...
Asiad 20, September 24: Nguyễn Thị Oanh, the 10,000m Ledger and the Price of a HeadlineOn the evening of September 24 I sit on a balcony in Chattogram, stopwatch in...
The Numbers That Were Never Printed: MAF Meet 'Records' and Umaya Rathnayake's Unmarked DoubleThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. T...
Surviving Within 8% of the Cutoff: The Arithmetic Behind Two Vietnamese Runners Finishing the 330km Tor des GéantsWhen Luu Duc Toan's watch showed 137 hours 50 minutes, the 150-hour cutoff wa...