Athletics
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts Breach, Possible Two-Year Ban
The September 18 Entry: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, a Whereabouts Breach and the Ledger of a Provisional Suspension
The Times Nobody Wrote Down: India's Athletics Day at Asian Games 2026, Day 6
The Blank Stopwatch Column: Auditing India's Athletics Ledger on Day Six of the 2026 Asian Games
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Ledger Where Nothing Is Timed, Only Located
Berlin Marathon: 2:11:04 and the 88 Seconds Lost in the Final Two KilometresI woke at 3 a.m. not for a highlight reel but for a split. At the 35-kilometr...
Sixty-Ninth: The Number Everyone Skipped Inside Vietnam's Marathon FestivalAt three in the morning, Truong Thi Street in Vinh is still dark. The 42km...
ASIAD 20: Vietnam's Four Faces on the Nagoya Track — Where 'Surpassing Own Limits' Means No Medal Dream, Just Hard RealityOn September 27 at Nagoya Central Stadium, the women's 200m final is schedule...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Clock Started on 18 September, and That Is the Real LedgerHook Every row in my ledger carries three boxes beside it: source, timestamp,...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts Breach, Possible Two-Year BanOn Friday night, while I was in my Chattogram studio, the sprint-hurdles news...
Medals Without a Clock: India's Day 6 Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games, Read from a Chattogram DeskHook: Nine-Tenths of a Metre, and Three Empty Cells My spreadsheet has four...
The September 18 Entry: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, a Whereabouts Breach and the Ledger of a Provisional SuspensionSeptember 18. On my desk a three-column table stays open — date, name, case...
The Entry Dated September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and Our Own Empty ColumnSeptember 18. Half past eleven at night in Dhaka, scrolling the wire feed on...
4.15 Metres, 17.17 Metres — and the One Time Nobody Wrote Down: Asian Games 2026, Day SixThe pole vault bar stopped at 4.15 metres. Evening had already rolled into...
The Times Nobody Wrote Down: India's Athletics Day at Asian Games 2026, Day 6Aichi-Nagoya, 24 September 2026. Around eight in the evening, Gulveer Singh c...
The Blank Stopwatch Column: Auditing India's Athletics Ledger on Day Six of the 2026 Asian GamesOn the sixth day at the Aichi-Nagoya athletics stadium, my eye went first to...
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Ledger Where Nothing Is Timed, Only LocatedHook In Kazan I learned to count frames the crowd never sees. After France be...
Who Witnesses 9.91? Nagoya's Semifinal, the Empty Wind Cell and an Unfinished RecordHook — One Empty Cell The stopwatch mutiny first reached me in an empty...
Nagoya's 9.91: One Semifinal, One Unratified Record, and a Brutal Ledger for BangladeshHook: The Evening the Clock Wrote 9.91 Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. Men's...