Athletics
Asian Games Day 6: The Medals Were Filed, the Times Were Not
A Medal Without a Clock: India's Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Is an Incomplete Ledger
Suspended Over an Address: Samba-Mayela, Zero Positive Tests, a Two-Year Risk, and the Rule That Punishes Women Hardest
4.15m and 17.17m: Two 'Historic' Bronzes, and the Time Nobody Wrote Down
9.91 and the Empty Wind Column: In Nagoya, Boonson's Clock Disagreed With the Crowd
9.91 in Nagoya: Thailand's Teenager, a Record Left Hanging, and Bangladesh's Empty Lanes
Asian Games Day 6: The Medals Were Filed, the Times Were Not4.15 metres. That was the first number that surfaced into my notebook from Da...
Medals Without Clocks: The Empty Column in India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6I began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. It was past midnight i...
A Medal Without a Clock: India's Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Is an Incomplete LedgerSeptember 24, 2026, Aichi-Nagoya. Gulveer Singh wins silver in the men's...
Medals Without Times: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and Bangladesh's Empty FileOn Wednesday, four athletics results landed on my desk before dawn. Not one o...
4.15 Metres and an Empty Time Column: The Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day SixWhen the results sheet arrived, the first thing I did was not read the report...
Suspended Over an Address: Samba-Mayela, Zero Positive Tests, a Two-Year Risk, and the Rule That Punishes Women HardestOn September 18, the Athletics Integrity Unit issued a decision. The name:...
4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: Historic to the Flag, Ordinary to the Clock4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: Historic to the Flag, Ordinary to the Clock The...
4.15m, 17.17m and a Blank Timing Column: The Day-6 Athletics Ledger from the 2026 Asian GamesThe Column That Stayed Blank I went looking for an athlete and found a ledger...
Asian Games 2026: Gulveer's Silver, Baranica's History — But Where Is the Real Reckoning on the Track?I began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. That...
4.15 Metres, 17.17 Metres, and the Times Nobody Wrote DownI was reading the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya slowly, because the...
Whereabouts: The Samba-Mayela Case Punishes a Ledger, Not a BodyIn August 2026, on the track inside the Stade de France, the women's 100m...
4.15m and 17.17m: Two 'Historic' Bronzes, and the Time Nobody Wrote DownIn the final 400 metres of the 10,000m final in Aichi-Nagoya, my eyes left th...
There Is a Date but No Frame: The Number Nobody Is Publishing in the Samba-Mayela CaseThere Is a Date but No Frame: The Number Nobody Is Publishing in the...
9.91 Seconds and a Missing Reading: The Record Nagoya Has Not Sealed YetAt twenty minutes to four in the morning, in a reading room in Sylhet, I sit...
Medals Without Clocks: The Empty Column in India's Athletics Ledger on Asian Games Day 6I began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. It was past midnight i...
A Medal Without a Clock: India's Day 6 Athletics at the Asian Games Is an Incomplete LedgerSeptember 24, 2026, Aichi-Nagoya. Gulveer Singh wins silver in the men's...
Medals Without Times: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and Bangladesh's Empty FileOn Wednesday, four athletics results landed on my desk before dawn. Not one o...
4.15 Metres and an Empty Time Column: The Athletics Ledger of Asian Games Day SixWhen the results sheet arrived, the first thing I did was not read the report...
Suspended Over an Address: Samba-Mayela, Zero Positive Tests, a Two-Year Risk, and the Rule That Punishes Women HardestOn September 18, the Athletics Integrity Unit issued a decision. The name:...
4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: Historic to the Flag, Ordinary to the Clock4.15 Metres and 17.17 Metres: Historic to the Flag, Ordinary to the Clock The...
4.15m, 17.17m and a Blank Timing Column: The Day-6 Athletics Ledger from the 2026 Asian GamesThe Column That Stayed Blank I went looking for an athlete and found a ledger...
Asian Games 2026: Gulveer's Silver, Baranica's History — But Where Is the Real Reckoning on the Track?I began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. That...
4.15 Metres, 17.17 Metres, and the Times Nobody Wrote DownI was reading the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya slowly, because the...
Whereabouts: The Samba-Mayela Case Punishes a Ledger, Not a BodyIn August 2026, on the track inside the Stade de France, the women's 100m...
4.15m and 17.17m: Two 'Historic' Bronzes, and the Time Nobody Wrote DownIn the final 400 metres of the 10,000m final in Aichi-Nagoya, my eyes left th...
There Is a Date but No Frame: The Number Nobody Is Publishing in the Samba-Mayela CaseThere Is a Date but No Frame: The Number Nobody Is Publishing in the...
9.91 Seconds and a Missing Reading: The Record Nagoya Has Not Sealed YetAt twenty minutes to four in the morning, in a reading room in Sylhet, I sit...