Athletics
A Whereabouts Breach Is Not Doping — In the Samba-Mayela Case, the Real Variable Is a Date, Not a Time
The Timing Booth Ledger: The Numbers India's Day-6 Athletics Success Never Wrote Down
The September 18 Ledger: The Number Missing From Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension Story
Four Medals, Zero Timings: Who Audits India's Athletics Report Card on Asian Games Day 6?
The September 18 Suspension: Dates, Counts and Bands in the Samba-Mayela Case
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's File: A Ledger With Dates but No TimesLast week in Nairobi I opened an athlete file and the first thing I noticed w...
4.15m and 17.17m: The Incomplete Ledger Behind India's Historic Asian Games DayOn a cool evening in Aichi-Nagoya, the moment the men's 10,000m final ended,...
September 18 and the Missing Number: How Big Is Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case Really?Hook I have watched the Paris final three times. Once live, once in slow...
The Empty Wind Cell: Puripol Boonson's Unverified 9.91 Record Claim in NagoyaUnder the sticky September heat of Nagoya I opened my notebook on the Paloma...
9.91 in the Semifinal, 0.08 Seconds Short of the Asian Record — Boonson's 'Record' and the Missing WindI had picked up my first carbon-copy results sheet at Dhaka's National Stadiu...
The Record Whose Wind Has Not Yet Been MeasuredOn September 24, a teenager from Thailand ran 9.95 seconds in the qualifying...
A Whereabouts Breach Is Not Doping — In the Samba-Mayela Case, the Real Variable Is a Date, Not a TimeSeptember 18 sits in my ledger as a variable, not a performance. The report i...
The Timing Booth Ledger: The Numbers India's Day-6 Athletics Success Never Wrote DownThere is a silver medal sitting in my ledger, and the space beside it is blan...
9.91 in Nagoya: One Teenager, One Unverified Wind, and Asia's Redrawn Sprint MapThe First Column I Check Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, September 24, 2026. T...
The Number Nobody Has Written Yet: Boonson's 9.91 Seconds in Nagoya and One Empty Wind BoxNational Athletics Championships, 2026. Twelve starters in the women's 100m...
The September 18 Ledger: The Number Missing From Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension StoryThe September 18 Ledger: The Number Missing From Cyrena Samba-Mayela's...
4.15 Metres, and the Empty Column in the Ledger4.15 Metres, and the Empty Column in the Ledger 4.15 metres. Baranica Elangov...
Four Medals, Zero Timings: Who Audits India's Athletics Report Card on Asian Games Day 6?Hook The biggest item on the results sheet that reached my desk from the...
The September 18 Suspension: Dates, Counts and Bands in the Samba-Mayela CaseSeptember 18. In the entire report, that is the only number attached directly...
4.15m and 17.17m: The Incomplete Ledger Behind India's Historic Asian Games DayOn a cool evening in Aichi-Nagoya, the moment the men's 10,000m final ended,...
September 18 and the Missing Number: How Big Is Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case Really?Hook I have watched the Paris final three times. Once live, once in slow...
The Empty Wind Cell: Puripol Boonson's Unverified 9.91 Record Claim in NagoyaUnder the sticky September heat of Nagoya I opened my notebook on the Paloma...
9.91 in the Semifinal, 0.08 Seconds Short of the Asian Record — Boonson's 'Record' and the Missing WindI had picked up my first carbon-copy results sheet at Dhaka's National Stadiu...
The Record Whose Wind Has Not Yet Been MeasuredOn September 24, a teenager from Thailand ran 9.95 seconds in the qualifying...
A Whereabouts Breach Is Not Doping — In the Samba-Mayela Case, the Real Variable Is a Date, Not a TimeSeptember 18 sits in my ledger as a variable, not a performance. The report i...
The Timing Booth Ledger: The Numbers India's Day-6 Athletics Success Never Wrote DownThere is a silver medal sitting in my ledger, and the space beside it is blan...
9.91 in Nagoya: One Teenager, One Unverified Wind, and Asia's Redrawn Sprint MapThe First Column I Check Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, September 24, 2026. T...
The Number Nobody Has Written Yet: Boonson's 9.91 Seconds in Nagoya and One Empty Wind BoxNational Athletics Championships, 2026. Twelve starters in the women's 100m...
The September 18 Ledger: The Number Missing From Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension StoryThe September 18 Ledger: The Number Missing From Cyrena Samba-Mayela's...
4.15 Metres, and the Empty Column in the Ledger4.15 Metres, and the Empty Column in the Ledger 4.15 metres. Baranica Elangov...
Four Medals, Zero Timings: Who Audits India's Athletics Report Card on Asian Games Day 6?Hook The biggest item on the results sheet that reached my desk from the...
The September 18 Suspension: Dates, Counts and Bands in the Samba-Mayela CaseSeptember 18. In the entire report, that is the only number attached directly...