Athletics
An Asian Games Without Clocks: India's Day 6 Medals in Aichi-Nagoya and an Incomplete Results File
Empty Wind Gauge, 9.91 on the Board: Auditing a Record in Nagoya
ASIAD 20: China and Japan Own the Long Jump Sand, Vietnam Runs Alone in the 200m — and an 80-Minute Trap Nobody Noticed
Asian Games Day 6: Where the Medals Are, the Times Aren't
ASIAD 20: China and Japan Own the Long Jump Sand, Vietnam Runs Alone in the 200m — and an 80-Minute Trap Nobody Noticed27 September 2026. Nagoya Central Stadium. In the evening session's women's...
Asian Games Day 6: Where the Medals Are, the Times Aren'tOn the athletics results sheet for Day 6 of the Asian Games, India's name...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The Ledger After September 18, Where the Length of a Ban Is the Real EvidenceI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. On Friday morning the...
4.15 Metres, 17.17 Metres, and the Times Nobody Wrote DownAichi-Nagoya, Day Six. At the pole vault pit, Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15...
An Asian Games Without Clocks: India's Day 6 Medals in Aichi-Nagoya and an Incomplete Results FileIn June 2026, standing in the shade of the western gallery at Rangpur Stadium...
In Samba-Mayela's Case the Real Question Is Not Doping, It Is the CalendarThe first thing I did when the story landed on the desk was count. I counted,...
The Frozen Window: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, Nobody Has Named the Number That MattersIn Kazan I learned to count frames the crowd never sees. On the night France...
Empty Wind Gauge, 9.91 on the Board: Auditing a Record in NagoyaPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. The closing week of September. The first men's...
Asian Games 2026, Day 6: The Loudest Result on the Sheet Is the Empty ColumnThe Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya reached me, and the first thing I...
9.91 Seconds and a Missing Wind Reading: The Questions Puripol Boonson's Semifinal Record Left OpenFrom my desk in Delhi, with two stopwatch apps running on the phone, I watche...