Athletics
Kaçkar by UTMB Returns for a Second Edition: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries, and an Empty Results BoardLast year, in the event's first edition, the Kaçkar range vanished from every...
2:29:07 and $700,000: The Real Ledger Behind a Former Nurse's Marathon CareerOn 18 October 2026, in Xi'an, the clock at the finish line of the women's...
2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and Zhang Shuihua's 19-Minute-11-Second GapOn 18 October 2026, the finish-line clock at the Xi'an Marathon stopped at...
Eliud Kipchoge and the Melbourne Record: When a Course Is Designed to Be Broken2:09:10. That is the number Eliud Kipchoge hit at the Melbourne Marathon 2026...
Chicago Marathon: When a Flat Course Becomes the Stage for World RecordsOn the Chicago course, the flatness of the ground is the most brutal thing of...
Amy Hunt, 21.47 Seconds, and the Fight Over How Women Athletes' Bodies Are PricedAmy Hunt ran 22.10 seconds to finish fourth in the women's 200m final in...
Vu Thi Huong: No Longer the 'Runner-Up' — the Sprint Double and the Olympic DreamThe 200m straight at Palembang, November 2026. Vu Thi Huong crossed the line,...
Vietnamese Women's Athletics and the Data Gap at the Door of QualificationVietnamese Women's Athletics and the Data Gap at the Door of Qualification In...
Vietnamese Athletics: The Gap Between the SEA Games Track and the Olympic StandardSaigon, a late afternoon at the end of the rainy season. On the track of a...
The 18-Year-Old Javelin Thrower and Thailand's Sprint Double: How Nagoya Quietly Redrew Asia's Athletics MapI still remember the unease I felt when the scoreboard flashed 70.46 metres....
Vietnamese Women's Athletics: The Mechanisms Behind SEA Games MedalsVIETNAMESE WOMEN'S ATHLETICS: THE MECHANISMS BEHIND SEA GAMES MEDALS Hook At...
ASIAD Shocker: Race Walk Gold Stripped Over Shoe Sole, Japan Benefits from 24-Hour Late Ruling3:22:20 flashed on the Nagoya stadium scoreboard on the evening of September ...
A Shoe Missing From the Approved List: The Asian Games Gold Stripped and the Gaps Left Open in the RecordA Shoe Missing From the Approved List: The Asian Games Gold Stripped and the...
My Hien and the 36 Seconds Per Kilometre at VM Nghe An 20263:00 AM, 27 September 2026. At Ho Chi Minh Square in Vinh City, the 42km...
Tigst Assefa's 2:11:04 in Berlin: the world record was lost in the final two kilometersAt the 40-kilometer mark, the stopwatch in my hand still had Tigst Assefa...
The All-N/A Athletics Report and the Trap Called 'No Risk Found'On the night of 12 November 2026, in a small office in Chuo ward, Osaka, I...
Puripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds at ASIAD: An Asian Record Changes Hands, and One Variable Goes UnpublishedOn the track in Aichi-Nagoya the clock stopped at 9.91 seconds. Puripol Boons...
Puripol Boonson's 9.91s at ASIAD 2026: Southeast Asia and the Shifting Map of Asian SprintingI rewatched the footage four times. Not to find a technical flaw. I rewatched...
Puripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds: When a Semifinal Outruns HistoryNagoya, September 24, 2026 – When the electronic clock stopped at 9.91 second...
The Living Gap on the Track: How Pacing Tactics Write the EndingAt the six-hundredth metre of a 1500-metre race, the gap between the two...
