Athletics
The Death of a 25-Year-Old Marathoner and the Cardiac Screening Gap in Mass RunningIn mass marathon running, the most important number is rarely on the results...
Amy Hunt's 22.16 in Brussels: The Best Bend, the Heaviest Last 20 MetresThe bend in Brussels that night, Amy Hunt entered it with her shoulders lower...
Chicago Marathon 2026: Kipruto's 2:01:09, Feysa's 2:13:33 and a 34-Second GapChicago, 11 October 2026. The leaderboard beside Lake Michigan carried three...
The Youth Track Archaeologist: Unearthing Athletics Talent from Forgotten Layers of DataA July afternoon, on the electronic scoreboard of a youth athletics meet, amo...
Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Athletes, 60 Countries and Türkiye's Sports-Tourism EquationOn the Ayder plateau, where the Kaçkar range drops down toward the Black Sea,...
21.47 Seconds and a Slogan: When Athletics Gets Priced by GenesOn Sunday, on a track in Budapest, the electronic clock stopped at 21.47...
Nairobi 2029 and the 140 Problem: Kenyan Athletics Between Trust and DataWhen Sebastian Coe stood in Nairobi in October to speak about the future of...
The Void in the Load Log: The Silent Gap Behind Misread InjuriesOn June 19, 2026, as the Premier League returned after a three-month pandemic...
Nairobi 2029: How 1,795 Metres of Altitude Rewrites World Athletics' RulebookOne August morning, scrolling through World Athletics' news feed, I stopped a...
Athletics and Ownerless Numbers: When a Performance Lacks ContextOne morning at the stadium, I received the results sheet from a youth athleti...
Nairobi 2029: World Athletics Leaves Its Comfort Zone and Chooses 1,795 Metres of AltitudeNairobi sits at roughly 1,795 metres above sea level. That altitude is absent...
Kenya, Nairobi 2029 and More Than 140 Sanctions: What Is Actually Being MeasuredIn a press room in Nairobi, Sebastian Coe spoke about progress. Nobody was...
The Death of an Amateur Runner in Seoul: When the Running Boom Outpaces Medical Infrastructure8:49 in the morning, an October day in Seoul. She collapsed roughly 500 metre...
Tragedy at Seoul Race 2026: The Death of Amateur Runner Yoo Ji-won and Unanswered QuestionsOn the morning of October 11, 2026, at the 24th Seoul Race, a large-scale roa...
Sri Lanka's 92.62-Metre Javelin: Between a National Record and an Unverified SilenceIn the final round of the Ultimate Championship final in Budapest, Rumesh...
Rumesh Tharanga and the 92.62m throw: When Sri Lanka rewrites javelin history - but verification is neededIn the darkness of the Olimpico stadium in Rome, a Sri Lankan arm swung forwa...
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62-Meter Throw: When the Body Has Not Finished TestifyingThe day Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage's javelin struck the runway in Rome, the...
Rumesh Tharanga's 92.62m javelin: 5.86 metres from history and a blank wind columnRome, a May evening. From the press tribune, I watch the javelin leave Rumesh...
Kipchoge breaks Melbourne Marathon course record at age 41: A legend's victory, or a new journey?The white nights of Russia taught me that the best play is the one no one...
When the Spreadsheet Is Empty: Why Athletics Injury Data Often Stays Silent Before It SpeaksOn the evening of March 14, 2026, I sat in a small apartment in Nagoya and...
Jemma Reekie Sets European Road Mile Record: A Comeback After a Fall and Two Months of ConcussionJemma Reekie, the 28-year-old Scottish middle-distance runner within the...
Kazakhstan race walker stripped of 2026 Asian Games gold over non-compliant shoes as two Chinese athletes are promoted to gold and silverOn September 27, 2026, in Nagoya, Japan, the women's race walking marathon at...
Van Trang Wins the 42km at Y Ty Mua Vang 2026, Finishes Second Overall and Answers Back with Unshakable ConfidenceOn September 6, 2026, in Y Ty commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, th...
When the Track Falls Silent: Athletics Data and the Discipline of HonestyIn 2026, at seventeen, I sat in a small room in Hai Phong with a stopwatch...
Nine Layers of Data: How to Read an Athletics MarkHayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, June 2026. The electronic clock stopped at 9.6...
PPDA, xG and the Pulse of the Season: Reading the V-League Through Numbers That Do Not LiePPDA, xG and the Pulse of the Season: Reading the V-League Through Numbers Th...
The Track and the Runway: Two Decades of Athletics Fashion from Ashford to FreemanThe Track and the Runway: Two Decades of Athletics Fashion from Ashford to...
