Athletics
AthleticsThe +2.0 m/s Line: The Invisible Data Layer Behind Every Athletics NumberIn the edit suite in Beijing, my first habit when I receive a reel of 100m...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: world records stamped on an eight-metre-flat courseThe Chicago course rises to 183 metres above sea level at its highest point a...
AthleticsAsian Games Marathon Race-Walk Gold Stripped Over a Shoe Sole: A First for the ContinentOn finals night in Aichi–Nagoya, Yasmina Toksambaeva crossed the line of the...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Re-Reading 2:18:31 in Sydney Through the DataIn Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir finished more than three minutes ahead of Irene...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: What the Marathon Case Does and Does Not EstablishThe Athletics Integrity Unit has provisionally suspended Peres Jepchirchir, t...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir and 2:18:31 in Sydney: an Open File, No Verdict YetThe clock above the finish line in Sydney stopped at 2:18:31. The runner-up,...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir and the Pre-Race Sample: The 2:18:31 File Is Still OpenThe finish line clock in Sydney read 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir won by more...
AthleticsRuti Aga's six-year ban: a sentence tripled by a forged prescriptionIn the Athletics Integrity Unit's case file there is a detail small enough to...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua and the $700,000: Chinese Marathons Pay for Attention, Not for TimesOn 18 October 2026, on the marathon course in Xi'an, a woman crossed the line...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua, 2:29:07 and the Chinese Marathon EconomyThe clock at the Xi'an finish line stopped at 2:29:07 as the sky turned grey....
AthleticsThe Chinese former nurse and nearly USD 700,000 from marathons: rereading 2:29:07 in Xi'anFive in the morning in Da Nang, fog still sitting on the balcony rail. I...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and a Shift She Cannot Return ToOn the morning of October 18, 2026, in Xi'an, the clock above the finish line...
AthleticsWhen the Track Is No Longer Anyone's Alone: East African Women's Athletics and the Fight to Be SeenOn an August afternoon at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, I counted seventeen young...
AthleticsWhen Data Has No Name: Lessons from an Empty Athletics AnalysisI once sat in a press room in Boston and watched a colleague open a statistic...
Athletics17 Goals Conceded and Three Silent Days: When the Chinese Women's Football Shield Broke in TokyoThere is a number I have tried not to write down for four years. 17. Not 17...
AthleticsWind, Altitude and the Shoe: The Dossier Athletics Fans Usually SkipThere is a silence on a 100-metre track that lasts less than a breath, right...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: world records stamped on an eight-metre-flat courseThe Chicago course rises to 183 metres above sea level at its highest point a...
AthleticsAsian Games Marathon Race-Walk Gold Stripped Over a Shoe Sole: A First for the ContinentOn finals night in Aichi–Nagoya, Yasmina Toksambaeva crossed the line of the...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Re-Reading 2:18:31 in Sydney Through the DataIn Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir finished more than three minutes ahead of Irene...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: What the Marathon Case Does and Does Not EstablishThe Athletics Integrity Unit has provisionally suspended Peres Jepchirchir, t...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir and 2:18:31 in Sydney: an Open File, No Verdict YetThe clock above the finish line in Sydney stopped at 2:18:31. The runner-up,...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir and the Pre-Race Sample: The 2:18:31 File Is Still OpenThe finish line clock in Sydney read 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir won by more...
AthleticsRuti Aga's six-year ban: a sentence tripled by a forged prescriptionIn the Athletics Integrity Unit's case file there is a detail small enough to...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua and the $700,000: Chinese Marathons Pay for Attention, Not for TimesOn 18 October 2026, on the marathon course in Xi'an, a woman crossed the line...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua, 2:29:07 and the Chinese Marathon EconomyThe clock at the Xi'an finish line stopped at 2:29:07 as the sky turned grey....
AthleticsThe Chinese former nurse and nearly USD 700,000 from marathons: rereading 2:29:07 in Xi'anFive in the morning in Da Nang, fog still sitting on the balcony rail. I...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and a Shift She Cannot Return ToOn the morning of October 18, 2026, in Xi'an, the clock above the finish line...
AthleticsWhen the Track Is No Longer Anyone's Alone: East African Women's Athletics and the Fight to Be SeenOn an August afternoon at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, I counted seventeen young...
AthleticsWhen Data Has No Name: Lessons from an Empty Athletics AnalysisI once sat in a press room in Boston and watched a colleague open a statistic...
Athletics17 Goals Conceded and Three Silent Days: When the Chinese Women's Football Shield Broke in TokyoThere is a number I have tried not to write down for four years. 17. Not 17...
AthleticsWind, Altitude and the Shoe: The Dossier Athletics Fans Usually SkipThere is a silence on a 100-metre track that lasts less than a breath, right...


