Athletics
2:47:52 on Long Bien Bridge: A Course Record, and the Silence Behind the Finish Line
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of a Race Not Built for Records
Amber Heard and the San Sebastián Half Marathon: Reading a 1:39 Mass-Participation Result Correctly
Nine Layers of Verification Before Trusting an Athletics Result
AthleticsIngebrigtsen Pulls Out of the 1500m at the Ultimate Championship: The Achilles Rewrote the Schedule, Not Josh KerrOn Friday night, Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the men's 5000m. By Sunday morning, h...
Athletics2:47:52 on Long Bien Bridge: A Course Record, and the Silence Behind the Finish Line1:30 a.m., and Hanoi was still a block of dark. Streetlights spilled a run of...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: A Stage for Records and Four Times Women Rewrote the RoadOn the night of October 13, 2026, the clock on the Chicago course stopped at ...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: The Flat Course and the Trap of World RecordsI remember that April night in 2026. Sabastian Sawe crossed the line in Londo...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: The Revival of a Race Not Built for RecordsIn October 2026, a field of runners will leave the Bandaranaike Memorial...
AthleticsTrey Lara's Mile 20: The Heart's Verdict at the Portland MarathonThe Portland night was not hot that day. That was the first thing I checked...
AthleticsVietnamese Athletics and the Data Problem: When Performance Must Be Proven by NumbersFor many years, athletics has been seen as Vietnam's "gold mine" at the SEA...
AthleticsAmber Heard and the San Sebastián Half Marathon: Reading a 1:39 Mass-Participation Result CorrectlyA short Instagram caption — "21 kilometers in 1:39 min!!" — together with a...
AthleticsHanoi Techcombank Marathon Season 5: Two Course Records and the Gap Behind ThemOn the climb onto Long Bien Bridge, around the 32nd kilometre, I stood outsid...
AthleticsOpening night of the richest athletics show in history: victory decided by structure, not by recordsIn the locker-room corridor in Budapest, yellow fluorescent light fell on the...
AthleticsNaomi Korir and Fifth Place in Glasgow: Re-reading the Verdict a Body Wrote Before the RaceIn the final of the middle-distance event at the Commonwealth Games held in...
AthleticsNine Layers of Verification Before Trusting an Athletics ResultA night in Nha Trang, sea wind slipping through the window frame, I sat...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: 1,000 Runners Retrace a Track Broken for Seven YearsIn October 2026, the starting line outside the BMICH building in Colombo was...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: A Thousand Steps Along the Coast and a Recount of What Was Left BehindColombo, early October morning. Outside the gates of the Bandaranaike Memoria...
AthleticsLSR Colombo Marathon 2026: A 20th Edition and the 8,500-to-1,000 GapThe press release for the 20th edition of the LSR Colombo Marathon contains n...
AthleticsColombo Marathon 2026: The Coastal Course and a Lesson in RevivalThe course from the BMICH Convention Centre in Colombo down to Negombo Beach...
AthleticsQuach Thi Lan and the Data Melancholy: Vietnamese Athletics After the Jakarta 2026 Golden EraIn the results sheet of the women's 400m hurdles at the 2026 Jakarta Asian...
Athletics548 Points and a 242-Point Gap: Beneath MAS Holdings' Eighth Consecutive GoldThere was a moment on the track in Colombo that made me read the results shee...
AthleticsVietnam's Track and the Void After the Jakarta GoldQuach Thi Lan's gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles was not awarded on the...
