Athletics
AthleticsAn Empty Cell Is Not a Safe Body: The False-Clearance Crisis in Injury Surveillance2026-10-22Three columns sat open on a laptop in a room in Patiala. The first held a nam...
AthleticsReading a Blank Sheet as 'Low Risk': A Forensic Report on Athletics Data2026-10-22The sheet balanced on the first pass. That was the problem. The file had nine...
AthleticsThe Truth on Page 14: When the Stadium Was Empty, the Data Was Speaking2026-10-22The 2026 ISL final at Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru. My notebook had...
AthleticsN/A: The Most Expensive Word in Indian Athletics2026-10-22At 11:40 pm the file opened on the London desk. Nine tabs, eight of them blan...
AthleticsEmpty Data, Empty Track: Where Indian Athletics Reporting Actually Hurts2026-10-22At a sports desk meeting in Delhi last week I heard the same complaint I have...
The Truth on Page 14: When the Stadium Was Empty, the Data Was SpeakingThe 2026 ISL final at Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru. My notebook had...
N/A: The Most Expensive Word in Indian AthleticsAt 11:40 pm the file opened on the London desk. Nine tabs, eight of them blan...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Safe Body: The False-Clearance Crisis in Injury SurveillanceThree columns sat open on a laptop in a room in Patiala. The first held a nam...
Reading a Blank Sheet as 'Low Risk': A Forensic Report on Athletics DataThe sheet balanced on the first pass. That was the problem. The file had nine...
Empty Data, Empty Track: Where Indian Athletics Reporting Actually HurtsAt a sports desk meeting in Delhi last week I heard the same complaint I have...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The Real Story Behind the Winning Times That the Organizer's Press Release Did Not TellThat moment at 1:30 a.m. Over 11,000 runners on the streets of Hanoi, four...
The 2,900-Name Screen and an Empty Report: The 'False Clearance' Risk in Athletics Data PipelinesReading athletics news through the eyes of a London-based transfer market...
Hanoi Marathon's 2:47:52: Twenty-One Minutes Off the Olympic Standard, and an 11,000-Entry City MarketThe clock on the finish gantry read 2:47:52, and in Hanoi it was eighteen...
Hanoi's 2:47:52: A Course Record, Three Bridges, and the One Sentence Missing From the Press KitThe gun went at 1:30 in the morning in Hanoi. I opened the stream in Pune at...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 2:47:52 'Record' Still 21 Minutes Off Olympic StandardAt 1:30 a.m. the roads of Hanoi opened. The first shoe landed on the...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 2:47:52 'Record' and the 21-Minute GapWhen I first looked at the results sheet from Hanoi, Vietnam, my eyes stopped...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: 1:30 AM Start, Three Bridges and a 2:47:52 'Course Record' — The Gap Between Domestic and International EliteAt 1:30 a.m. the streets of Hanoi were not empty. When the first wave crossed...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: A 2:47:52 Domestic Crown, 21 Minutes Short of the Olympic StandardAt 1:30 a.m., over 11,000 runners took to the streets of Hanoi. As they cross...
N/A: The Most Expensive Word in Indian AthleticsAt 11:40 pm the file opened on the London desk. Nine tabs, eight of them blan...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Safe Body: The False-Clearance Crisis in Injury SurveillanceThree columns sat open on a laptop in a room in Patiala. The first held a nam...
Reading a Blank Sheet as 'Low Risk': A Forensic Report on Athletics DataThe sheet balanced on the first pass. That was the problem. The file had nine...
Empty Data, Empty Track: Where Indian Athletics Reporting Actually HurtsAt a sports desk meeting in Delhi last week I heard the same complaint I have...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The Real Story Behind the Winning Times That the Organizer's Press Release Did Not TellThat moment at 1:30 a.m. Over 11,000 runners on the streets of Hanoi, four...
The 2,900-Name Screen and an Empty Report: The 'False Clearance' Risk in Athletics Data PipelinesReading athletics news through the eyes of a London-based transfer market...
Hanoi Marathon's 2:47:52: Twenty-One Minutes Off the Olympic Standard, and an 11,000-Entry City MarketThe clock on the finish gantry read 2:47:52, and in Hanoi it was eighteen...
Hanoi's 2:47:52: A Course Record, Three Bridges, and the One Sentence Missing From the Press KitThe gun went at 1:30 in the morning in Hanoi. I opened the stream in Pune at...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 2:47:52 'Record' Still 21 Minutes Off Olympic StandardAt 1:30 a.m. the roads of Hanoi opened. The first shoe landed on the...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 2:47:52 'Record' and the 21-Minute GapWhen I first looked at the results sheet from Hanoi, Vietnam, my eyes stopped...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: 1:30 AM Start, Three Bridges and a 2:47:52 'Course Record' — The Gap Between Domestic and International EliteAt 1:30 a.m. the streets of Hanoi were not empty. When the first wave crossed...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: A 2:47:52 Domestic Crown, 21 Minutes Short of the Olympic StandardAt 1:30 a.m., over 11,000 runners took to the streets of Hanoi. As they cross...