Athletics
Mahnoor Fatima and the 5,000m race walk gold in Karachi: reading a domestic result at the right stratigraphic layer
Zhang Shuihua, 2:29:07 and Nearly 700,000 USD: The Road That Pays a Nurse's Salary
A Gold Medal Stripped Because the Shoes Were Missing from the World Athletics Approved List
Yoo Ji-won's Death at Kilometer 21: When the Amateur Running Boom Outpaces Safety Infrastructure
Kipchoge and 2:09:10 in Melbourne: When a Champion Races Against Time, Not Rivals
Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's Athletics Medals Sit Below Global StandardsThe bar stopped at 4.15 metres. Baranica Elangovan landed, held the pole, and...
Mahnoor Fatima and the 5,000m race walk gold in Karachi: reading a domestic result at the right stratigraphic layerAt the University of NED in Karachi, the electronic board stopped at 32 minut...
Zhang Shuihua, 2:29:07 and Nearly 700,000 USD: The Road That Pays a Nurse's SalaryAn afternoon in Xi'an The clock at the finish line in Xi'an stopped at 2 hour...
A Gold Medal Stripped Because the Shoes Were Missing from the World Athletics Approved ListThe finish straight for the women's road events always runs to a slower rhyth...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Race Record Is Not a Sporting Record01:30 in the morning, race day of VPIM 2026. The marathon pack sets off in...
Vietnamese Women's Football: When the Stand Has No Name and the Map of BelongingIn 2026, I sat on the concrete stand of a stadium with no electronic...
Yoo Ji-won's Death at Kilometer 21: When the Amateur Running Boom Outpaces Safety InfrastructureAt 08:49 on the morning of October 11 in Seoul, the half marathon field had...
Kipchoge and 2:09:10 in Melbourne: When a Champion Races Against Time, Not RivalsEliud Kipchoge broke the tape at the Melbourne Marathon 2026 in 2 hours, 9...
When the Data Table Is Empty: The Discipline Behind Vietnamese Women's Sports ReportingIn March 2026, I sat in front of a nine-column spreadsheet built to analyse a...
Why a Kenyan Woman Finishing Fourth in the 3,000m Steeplechase Still Deserves RecognitionIn the final lap of the women's 3,000m steeplechase final, the stands were...
When the Data Goes Silent: A Lesson on Verifiability in Southeast Asian Youth Athletics ScoutingIn August 2026, in Yangon, Myanmar, I sat in the seventh row of the Thuwunna...
The Silent Revolution: Coach Mai Duc Chung and the New Tactical Equation for Vietnamese Women's FootballWhen the final whistle blew at Thong Nhat Stadium on a late May afternoon, th...
Colombo Marathon 2026: When a Twenty-Year-Old Race Must Learn to Start AgainColombo Marathon 2026: When a Twenty-Year-Old Race Must Learn to Start Again ...
Nagoya ASIAD: Women's Race-Walk Gold Stripped 24 Hours Later Over Shoe-Sole ViolationYasmina Toksanbaeva crossed the line in Nagoya with the clock at 3:22:20. The...
1:39 in the Donostia Rain: A Mass-Running Milestone and What Sports Media OverlooksIt is raining in Donostia. Along the street by the Bay of La Concha, umbrella...
Hanoi Techcombank Marathon Season 5: Hong Le and Anh Khoi Set Race Records, and the Gap to the World RemainsOn the morning of October 4, when Pham Thi Hong Le crossed the finish line on...
The Injury Code: Vietnamese Athletics Is Ignoring the Body's Early WarningsI stood at the edge of the training track at the Hanoi National Sports Traini...
When the Asiad 20 Flame Went Out: Vietnam, Athletics, and What the Medal Table Doesn't TellI stood in a corner of the stands, where no one was watching. On the closing...
From the sand of Lien Chieu to a national finish line: the price of a starting spotFrom the sand of Lien Chieu to a national finish line: the price of a startin...
Vietnamese Women's Football: The Tempo Has Risen, the Stands Stay SilentI counted forty-two people in Stand B of Thong Nhat Stadium on a late-April...
Nine Layers of Decoding a Race: Athletics Does Not Live on the ScoreboardOne evening at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, I sat in the western stand watching...
Mahnoor Fatima and the 5,000m race walk gold in Karachi: reading a domestic result at the right stratigraphic layerAt the University of NED in Karachi, the electronic board stopped at 32 minut...
Zhang Shuihua, 2:29:07 and Nearly 700,000 USD: The Road That Pays a Nurse's SalaryAn afternoon in Xi'an The clock at the finish line in Xi'an stopped at 2 hour...
A Gold Medal Stripped Because the Shoes Were Missing from the World Athletics Approved ListThe finish straight for the women's road events always runs to a slower rhyth...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Race Record Is Not a Sporting Record01:30 in the morning, race day of VPIM 2026. The marathon pack sets off in...
Vietnamese Women's Football: When the Stand Has No Name and the Map of BelongingIn 2026, I sat on the concrete stand of a stadium with no electronic...
Yoo Ji-won's Death at Kilometer 21: When the Amateur Running Boom Outpaces Safety InfrastructureAt 08:49 on the morning of October 11 in Seoul, the half marathon field had...
Kipchoge and 2:09:10 in Melbourne: When a Champion Races Against Time, Not RivalsEliud Kipchoge broke the tape at the Melbourne Marathon 2026 in 2 hours, 9...
When the Data Table Is Empty: The Discipline Behind Vietnamese Women's Sports ReportingIn March 2026, I sat in front of a nine-column spreadsheet built to analyse a...
Why a Kenyan Woman Finishing Fourth in the 3,000m Steeplechase Still Deserves RecognitionIn the final lap of the women's 3,000m steeplechase final, the stands were...
When the Data Goes Silent: A Lesson on Verifiability in Southeast Asian Youth Athletics ScoutingIn August 2026, in Yangon, Myanmar, I sat in the seventh row of the Thuwunna...
The Silent Revolution: Coach Mai Duc Chung and the New Tactical Equation for Vietnamese Women's FootballWhen the final whistle blew at Thong Nhat Stadium on a late May afternoon, th...
Colombo Marathon 2026: When a Twenty-Year-Old Race Must Learn to Start AgainColombo Marathon 2026: When a Twenty-Year-Old Race Must Learn to Start Again ...
Nagoya ASIAD: Women's Race-Walk Gold Stripped 24 Hours Later Over Shoe-Sole ViolationYasmina Toksanbaeva crossed the line in Nagoya with the clock at 3:22:20. The...
1:39 in the Donostia Rain: A Mass-Running Milestone and What Sports Media OverlooksIt is raining in Donostia. Along the street by the Bay of La Concha, umbrella...
Hanoi Techcombank Marathon Season 5: Hong Le and Anh Khoi Set Race Records, and the Gap to the World RemainsOn the morning of October 4, when Pham Thi Hong Le crossed the finish line on...
The Injury Code: Vietnamese Athletics Is Ignoring the Body's Early WarningsI stood at the edge of the training track at the Hanoi National Sports Traini...
When the Asiad 20 Flame Went Out: Vietnam, Athletics, and What the Medal Table Doesn't TellI stood in a corner of the stands, where no one was watching. On the closing...
From the sand of Lien Chieu to a national finish line: the price of a starting spotFrom the sand of Lien Chieu to a national finish line: the price of a startin...
Vietnamese Women's Football: The Tempo Has Risen, the Stands Stay SilentI counted forty-two people in Stand B of Thong Nhat Stadium on a late-April...
Nine Layers of Decoding a Race: Athletics Does Not Live on the ScoreboardOne evening at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, I sat in the western stand watching...
