Athletics
Not Doping, Still a Penalty: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Stopped Rhythm
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts Breach Raises Career Questions
Samba-Mayela, the AIU and the Whereabouts Case: What the Suspension Notice Leaves Blank
The 9.91 Ledger Entry: A Thai Teenager in Nagoya and Dhaka's Empty Column
Puripol Boonson: 9.91s Semifinal, But the Record's Math Is Still Pending
The 69th Fastest Time in Vietnam: A Marathon Boom That Adds Crowds, Not Depth
The 69th Fastest Time in Vietnam: A Marathon Boom That Adds Crowds, Not Depth"Ten meters ahead." "Running side by side." Across the coastal road from Vinh...
One Hundredth of a Second, Three Missing Addresses: What Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension Asks of Bangladeshi AthleticsOn 10 August 2026, after the women's 100m hurdles final at the Stade de Franc...
The Ledger of Zero Seconds: India's Athletics on Asian Games Day 6 and the Numbers Nobody Wrote DownThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. I...
Thailand's 9.91: The Record Was Announced, the Wind Column Is Still BlankA results sheet I read in three columns — lane, reaction time, wind. In...
Not Doping, Still a Penalty: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Stopped RhythmStade de France, Paris, August 10, 2026. When the women's 100m hurdles final...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: Temporary Suspension for Whereabouts Breach Raises Career QuestionsThe first parameter for a story about an Olympic silver medalist sprinter...
The Samba-Mayela File: Where the Date, Not the Stopwatch, Is the WitnessSeptember 18. A date walked into the file, not a time. I was in Sylhet with...
Samba-Mayela, the AIU and the Whereabouts Case: What the Suspension Notice Leaves BlankThe night of the Paris final, twenty-eight people crowded into a club room in...
9.91 Seconds and One Empty Box: Thailand's Sprint Ledger in NagoyaPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. September 24, 2026, men's 100m qualifying roun...
The 9.91 Ledger Entry: A Thai Teenager in Nagoya and Dhaka's Empty ColumnThe timing board at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium lit up with 9.91 in the...
Puripol Boonson: 9.91s Semifinal, But the Record's Math Is Still PendingAt the Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, the semifinal had just ended....