Athletics
Half a Ledger: Why Bangladeshi Athletics Keeps Failing to Record Its Women
Four Medals With No Times Beside Them: An Athletics Ledger From Day Six of the Asian Games
The Eighteenth of September: The Number Nobody Wrote Down, and Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case
The Empty Cell Since September 18: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Number Is the Only Judge
Half a Ledger: Why Bangladeshi Athletics Keeps Failing to Record Its Women2026 National Athletics Championships. The results sheet from the National...
Four Medals With No Times Beside Them: An Athletics Ledger From Day Six of the Asian GamesOn the results board at Aichi-Nagoya, four athletics entries glowed at the en...
The Clock That Started on September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Infrastructure We Never BuiltThe location form looks harmless, but there is a clock wired into it. Any...
4.15 Metres and an Empty Stopwatch: India's Athletics Day at the 2026 Asian Games, and the Question Bangladesh's Ledger Cannot DodgeI kept the ledger closed for almost a minute. On screen was Day 6 of the 2026...
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: Three Failures, Missing Times and an Incomplete FileLast year I watched the Paris 100m hurdles final from a fourth-floor flat in...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela: The September 18 Suspension, the Missing Number, and a Two-Year Estimate BandHook: The Number Nobody Wrote Down On Friday the Athletics Integrity Unit (AI...
The Eighteenth of September: The Number Nobody Wrote Down, and Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe Eighteenth of September, and a Date That Is Nobody's Personal Best On the...
4.15m and 17.17m: The Empty Cells Behind India's 'Historic' Day 6 Medals4.15 metres. Small number, easy to misread. The women's pole vault world reco...
The Ledger of September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Cells Still EmptyHook September 18. In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's file this is the one date with a...
The Empty Cell Since September 18: In Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Number Is the Only JudgeOn September 18, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) stamped a provisional...
No Wind Reading, No Record: Nagoya's 9.91 Is Still Waiting for ProofThe board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium lit up with 9.91 seconds and the...
The Record With a Blank Wind Box: The Ledger of 9.91 and Rangpur's Empty LanesOn the timing sheet from Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Aichi-Nagoya there is a lin...
The Ledger With No Times: India's Athletics on Day Six of the Asian GamesThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. T...
An Address Form, a Timing Trap: Reading Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional SuspensionIn 2026 I filmed the women's 100m hurdles final at the National Athletics...
The Empty Column Beside 9.91: A Thai Teenager's Asian Games Record and One Missing NumberThe Empty Column Beside 9.91 Puripol Boonson's Asian Games record, the missin...