Athletics
4.15 Metres and the Times Nobody Wrote Down: A Ledger on Indian Athletics at Asian Games 2026, Day 6
The Unfinished Ledger of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Still Awaits a Wind Signature
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Suspension: A Transfer Market That Could Freeze
A Broken Whereabouts, Not a Doping Case: The Arithmetic Nobody Is Doing in the Cyrena Samba-Mayela File
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Suspension: A Transfer Market That Could FreezeSeptember 18 — a date I have circled in my ledger. On this date, the Athletic...
4.15 Metres and the Times Nobody Wrote Down: A Ledger on Indian Athletics at Asian Games 2026, Day 6Hook India's first Asian Games pole vault medal — 4.15 metres. The headline...
A Broken Whereabouts, Not a Doping Case: The Arithmetic Nobody Is Doing in the Cyrena Samba-Mayela FileTwo Sentences, Two Instruments Last Friday night, two lines sat side by side ...
A Whereabouts File, Not a Doping Charge: The Ledger Line Nobody Is Reading in the Samba-Mayela CaseFriday's statement was short. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed th...
Medals Without Times: India's Athletics on Day Six of the 2026 Asian GamesMedals Without Times: India's Athletics on Day Six of the 2026 Asian Games On...
The Ledger of September 18: Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension and the Hurdles ReckoningA home address, a one-hour window, and a date. That is all the anti-doping...
9.91 Seconds: Boonson's Asian Games Record — History or a Wind Test?The number is 9.91. On September 25, 2026, at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium,...
Nagoya's 9.91: The Record Still Waiting for the Wind's TestimonyIn 2026, I was a nineteen-year-old records assistant in the hand-timing booth...
9.91 Is There, the Wind Reading Is Not — A Forensic Report on Nagoya's Semifinal RecordThe clock at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium stopped at 9.91 seconds. The...
The Question Buried Under 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Semifinal Record, the Missing Wind Reading, and the Load Curve of a 19-Year-Old BodyHook The number lit up at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya: 9.91. Beside it, t...
The Unfinished Ledger of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record Still Awaits a Wind SignatureThe last number I wrote into my notebook after the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games...