Athletics
The Empty Cells: What Vietnam's 27 September Athletics Ledger Actually Says
September 18: In Samba-Mayela's Case, the Real Fear Is the Calendar, Not a Substance
The Suspension Is Dated 18 September, But Nobody Is Naming the Number: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case
The Blank Wind Column Beside 9.91: A Nagoya Semifinal, a Regional Record and the Ledger That Decides What It Meant
AthleticsThe Empty Cells: What Vietnam's 27 September Athletics Ledger Actually SaysIn May 2026, in a sixth-form classroom in Liverpool, I closed a Google Sheet....
AthleticsSeptember 18: In Samba-Mayela's Case, the Real Fear Is the Calendar, Not a SubstanceThe women's 100m hurdles final in Paris was settled inside a few hundredths o...
AthleticsThe Suspension Is Dated 18 September, But Nobody Is Naming the Number: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe Suspension Is Administrative. The Number Isn't Being Named. 18 September....
AthleticsThe Blank Wind Column Beside 9.91: A Nagoya Semifinal, a Regional Record and the Ledger That Decides What It MeantWhat Lit Up on the Board, and What Stayed Blank At Paloma Mizuho Stadium in...
AthleticsThe Samba-Mayela Case: The Number Missing From the 'Two-Year Ban' Headline Is the Real StoryIn 2026, at the Dhaka SAF Games, I learned my first rule inside the commentar...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson: The 9.91 Semifinal That Broke One Record and Left Another PendingThe first thing I did was count. The scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium read...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Audit: A Record Still Looking for Its Wind ReadingThe moment the number landed in the Paloma Mizuho Stadium results feed, the...
Athletics9.91 Seconds and a Missing Number: Auditing the Asian Games Semifinal RecordTwo columns sit on my Chattogram desk. The left one holds the results sheet;...
AthleticsThe Empty Box Next to 9.91: Boonson's Nagoya Record, the Wind Gauge and the Round LoadOn the digital board at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium on 24 September 2026,...
AthleticsThai teenager Puripol Boonson's 9.91 seconds: New history at ASIAD breaking Su Bingtian's recordThat evening at the Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, Japan, on September 24,...
AthleticsThe Empty Wind Box Beside 9.91: A Thai Teenager in Nagoya and Asia's Unfinished Sprint Ledger9.91 — the number lit up on the board, and the box next to it in my notebook...
AthleticsNagoya's 9.91: The Record Whose Wind Has Not Been MeasuredI began with a phone camera because the official one never turned on. Dhaka,...
Athletics9.91 Seconds in Nagoya: A Teenager's Games Record and a Number That Is Not Yet EvidenceThe clock at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya stopped at 9.91 seconds, and the...