Athletics
New York Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Survives a Seven-Second Scare
New York Marathon: Debutant Almgren Wins Men's Title, Chepkirui Claims Second Women's Crown
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for a Needle, Four for a Prescription Pad
Sydney's 2:18:31 and a Sample Bottled in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir and the Empty Column in the Testing Ledger
32:32.40: Mahnoor's First Gold, and the Truth of Pakistan's Race-Walking Lane the Medal Table Never ShowsWhen Mahnoor crossed the finish line of the 5,000m race walk on that Karachi...
New York Marathon: Three Men in 25 Seconds, Two Women in One — and the Chosen Door Called 'European-Born'Two women crossed the line one second apart. On that last strip of Central...
Empty Input, Not Publishable: Technical Failure in the Athletics Analysis ChainThe Stage-1 deconstruction report supplied here has its article title, source...
New York Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Settles a Three-Way Battle Inside Seven SecondsIn the men's race at the New York City Marathon, the story everyone had been...
New York Marathon: Almgren Wins on Debut, Chepkirui Survives a Seven-Second ScareNEW YORK: Sweden's Andreas Almgren ran the first marathon of his career and w...
Almgren Wins New York City Marathon on Debut; Chepkirui Secures Second Women's TitleNEW YORK — Sweden's Andreas Almgren won the New York City Marathon on Sunday ...
New York Marathon: A 13-Second Headline, A 25-Second TruthThe results sheet for the New York Marathon had one complete line — 2:06:01 —...
New York Marathon: Debutant Almgren Wins Men's Title, Chepkirui Claims Second Women's CrownNew York. This edition of the New York City Marathon produced two very...
The Ciara Mageean File: A 2:31.06 Record, Four Injuries in a Row, and One Unverified ClaimThe Ciara Mageean File: A 2:31.06 Record, Four Injuries in a Row, and One...
The Verification Framework of Athletics Reporting: When a Mark Becomes News, and When It Does NotWriting about athletics looks easy: a name, a number, a sentence....
No File, No Mark: Auditing the Incomplete Ledger of Indian AthleticsThe file that landed on my desk this week had twelve boxes and all twelve wer...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for a Needle, Four for a Prescription PadSeptember 10 is the date entered on the ledger. Six years run from it. Ruti A...
Arshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start: Coach Fayyaz Bukhari's Diagnosis, and the Questions Still UnansweredPakistan's first individual Olympic gold medallist, javelin thrower Arshad...
Analysis Without Facts: The Non-Negotiable Need for Verification in Athletics ReportingIn recent years, sports journalism has developed a new reflex: analytics. Aft...