Athletics
A Final Without a Mark: Accounting for Vietnam's Long Jump, 200m and Relay at ASIAD 20A Final Without a Mark: Accounting for Vietnam's Long Jump, 200m and Relay at...
Samba-Mayela: One Date, One Gap, and a Two-Year ShadowThere are two pieces of paper in my bag at every meet: a printed start list a...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Not Drugs but Paperwork — The Suspension That Forces an Olympic Silver Medalist to Fight the CalendarHook: The Season Was Lost to a Calendar, Not a Clock September 18. No stadium...
The September 18 Notice: Where the Athlete Must Herself Keep the Archive of Her Own WhereaboutsSeptember 18. The hardest fact in this file is a date, and a two-word phrase ...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: In a Whereabouts Case the Real Arithmetic Is the Start Date, Not the Ban LengthFriday evening, minutes before I walked out of the Chattogram studio, the lin...
Four Medals, Zero Times: How Reliable Is India's Day 6 Athletics Ledger at the Asian Games 2026On Day 6 at Aichi-Nagoya, India's athletics contingent walked away with four...
The Lap Nobody Timed: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, Whereabouts Rules and the Half-Counted Record of Women's AthleticsOne date, and the geography of a career Friday. The Athletics Integrity Unit...
Three Times, One File: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Ledger of WhereaboutsThe AIU notice reached my phone in eight seconds. A name, a date, and one...
The Empty Wind Column at 9.91: A Record Not Yet Entered in the LedgerThe Empty Wind Column at 9.91: A Record Not Yet Entered in the Ledger Hook At...
The Tape Is Silent: An Audit of India's Day 6 Athletics at the 2026 Asian GamesThe results sheet arrived on my screen last night with a medal column, a...
9.91 Seconds and an Empty Box: Why Nagoya's Record Is Still Not a RecordTwo boxes lit up on the Paloma Mizuho Stadium scoreboard that evening. One...
