Athletics
A Blank Data File and a 'No Risk Detected' Label: Where Athletics Analysis Fooled ItselfAt 1:40 a.m. in Tokyo, I opened a nine-page file sent up from the data desk....
From Nurse to $700,000: The Real Picture of Zhang Shuihua and Chinese Women's MarathonThere was a moment at the starting line of the Xi'an Marathon on October 18,...
Nine Analytical Dimensions and a Blank Page: The Discipline of Saying "Not Enough Data" in an Athletics Data RoomAt 2:47 in the morning, the nine-dimension report appeared on my screen. Full...
Y Ty Golden Season 2026: Van Trang wins the women's 42km in 4:26 and finishes second overallFour hours twenty-six minutes for 42.195 kilometres — six minutes eighteen...
VPIM 2026: Reading the 'Record' Correctly — What 2:47:52 and 2:31:49 Say About Vietnamese MarathonIn the last three Southeast Asian mass-participation marathons I have tracked...
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Still Sits 20 Minutes Off the World StandardThe clock at the start line read 01:30. On Long Bien bridge, the footfalls of...
Van Trang and the Reply at Y Ty: When a 42km Result Needs No Crowd's PermissionThere is a moment at Y Ty that I cannot erase from my head. It was not the...
When the Athletics Analytics Pipeline Returns a Blank PageAt 3:17 a.m. on March 11, 2026, record four hundred and nine in the overnight...
Assefa Wins Berlin in 2:11:04: The World Record Slips Away in the Final Two KilometresAt the 35-kilomet mark on the streets of Berlin, on the morning of 21 Septemb...
Kaçkar by UTMB Second Edition: 2,000 Athletes, 60 Countries and a Results GapMorning on the Ayder plateau in Rize, Türkiye, fog still clung to the wooden...
Nairobi 2029: Sebastian Coe and the 1,795-Metre Altitude Problem of Africa's First World ChampionshipsI once spent nearly two hours rewatching a fourteen-second clip. Bob Beamon's...
Yoo Ji-won, Seoul Race 2026, and the Medical Blind Spot of a Fast-Growing Running MovementAt 8:49 on the morning of October 11, in central Seoul, the weather was exact...
Kipchoge breaks Melbourne Marathon course record at 41: Reading 2:09:10 through dataWhen Eliud Kipchoge entered the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the final metres ...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Marathon Course Record at 41: Two Seconds and an Eight-Minute GapIn the tunnel leading into the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Eliud Kipchoge slowe...
Kipchoge Breaks Melbourne Course Record at 41: A Real Win, Not a PeakMelbourne, late at night. As Eliud Kipchoge turns into the tunnel leading to...


