Athletics
AthleticsWhereabouts: September 18, an Olympic Silver, and a Dataset With No Clock In It2026-09-26When the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement landed last Friday, the first...
AthleticsThree Hundredths in Paris, Three Missed Filings After: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Half We Never Count2026-09-26At three in the morning in my Barishal home I had the television nearly muted...
Athletics9.91 in Nagoya: The Record Still Waiting for the Wind Gauge2026-09-26The scoreboard said 9.91. The anemometer said nothing, and that silence was...
AthleticsThe Empty Timing Column: India's Athletics on Asian Games 2026 Day 6, and an Old Habit2026-09-27Hook: The Blank Cell on the Day 6 Sheet When the Day 6 results sheet reached...
AthleticsThe Empty Column in the Stopwatch: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 62026-09-26At 2:40 a.m. last Thursday a results sheet arrived from a Dhaka desk: four...
The Empty Timing Column: India's Athletics on Asian Games 2026 Day 6, and an Old HabitHook: The Blank Cell on the Day 6 Sheet When the Day 6 results sheet reached...
Whereabouts: September 18, an Olympic Silver, and a Dataset With No Clock In ItWhen the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement landed last Friday, the first...
The Empty Column in the Stopwatch: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6At 2:40 a.m. last Thursday a results sheet arrived from a Dhaka desk: four...
No Times, No Wind Readings, No Splits: Day 6 Athletics at the 2026 Asian Games Handed Over an Incomplete LedgerI opened the Day 6 results sheet from Aichi-Nagoya looking for one number. Th...
Four Results, Zero Times: Auditing Day 6 of Asian Games AthleticsLast night — to be precise, on the evening of Day 6 of the 2026 Asian Games,...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: French Olympic Silver Medalist Given Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts BreachIn September, a statement from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) took a stor...
The September 18 Ledger: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Suspension and the Two-Surface Risk to an Olympic SilverSeptember 18: One Date, a Few Numbers, Zero Seconds On a Friday the Athletics...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: Hurdle Rhythm, Whereabouts Gaps and the Arithmetic of Two YearsLast year I printed out the start list for the women's 100m hurdles final at...
Three Hundredths in Paris, Three Missed Filings After: Cyrena Samba-Mayela and the Half We Never CountAt three in the morning in my Barishal home I had the television nearly muted...
The 9.91 Ledger: Boonson's Record, the Empty Wind Cell and Asia's Sprint ReckoningI opened the results sheet with a question already typed at the top. The firs...
Where the Paperwork Fails, the Seconds Follow: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, the Integrity Unit and the Arithmetic of the Hurdles CalendarOn August 10, 2026, the electronic board at the Stade de France finish flashe...
Three Missed Windows, One Date: Auditing Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe Athletics Integrity Unit released its statement on Friday, and my first...
A Report Without a Time, a Sanction With a Date: The Real Questions in Cyrena Samba-Mayela's CaseI am reading a report and looking for a time inside it. There isn't one. No...
9.91 in Nagoya: The Record Still Waiting for the Wind GaugeThe scoreboard said 9.91. The anemometer said nothing, and that silence was...