Athletics
Zhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and the 9:28 Gap
At Mile 18, He Kissed His Wife. At Mile 20, His Heart Stopped: The Story of Trey Lara and the Cardiac Screening Blind Spot of Mass Marathon
30,000 Burpee Broad Jumps in 155 Hours: Kevin Ociepka Sets a Marathon Record With No Running Track
Kipchoge wins his first marathon in 3 years: 2:09:10 and the eight-and-a-half-minute gap from himself
Athletics Marks: Wind, Altitude, and the Part That Cannot Be Explained
Kenya's Track and the Women Rewriting the Limits
AthleticsLong Jump, 200m and the Exchange Zone: September 27 for Vietnam's Women's AthleticsI counted eighteen strides. The long jumper placed her final check mark about...
AthleticsZhang Shuihua: 2:29:07, Nearly $700,000, and the 9:28 GapXi'an, 18 October 2026. The clock above the finish line rolled to 2 hours, 29...
AthleticsThe Empty Cell on the Results Sheet: Why a Structurally Correct Athletics Report Can Still Be Hollow"The first headset weighed more than I expected, but my voice weighed even...
AthleticsBerlin 2026: Assefa Runs 2:11:04 and Loses Record in Final Two KilometresAt the 35 km checkpoint, Tigst Assefa was still about 20 seconds ahead of Rut...
AthleticsAt Mile 18, He Kissed His Wife. At Mile 20, His Heart Stopped: The Story of Trey Lara and the Cardiac Screening Blind Spot of Mass MarathonAt mile 18 of the Portland Marathon, Trey Lara stopped long enough to kiss hi...
Athletics30,000 Burpee Broad Jumps in 155 Hours: Kevin Ociepka Sets a Marathon Record With No Running TrackIn 155 hours 44 minutes 51 seconds, Kevin Ociepka covered 42 km around...
AthleticsWhen Sports Data Falls Silent: Where Is Fan Trust Built?On the night of August 15, I sat before my screen waiting for the stat sheet ...
AthleticsNairobi 2029: The First African World Athletics Championships and the 1,795-Metre Altitude VariableAt 5:40 in the morning in Iten, a small town on the edge of the Kerio Valley ...
AthleticsKipchoge wins his first marathon in 3 years: 2:09:10 and the eight-and-a-half-minute gap from himselfThe frame I rewatched most is not the moment Eliud Kipchoge crossed the finis...
AthleticsWhen Sports Data Comes Up Empty: The Fragile Line Between Analysis and FabricationIn a small room in Hai Phong, I opened a sports analysis report and found eve...
AthleticsAthletics Marks: Wind, Altitude, and the Part That Cannot Be ExplainedEvery athletics season brings a beautiful mark that appears and then vanishes...
AthleticsMile 20 and the Cardiac Screening Gap: Lessons from a 25-Year-Old MarathonerOpening: the final two miles of an afternoon On October 4, at the Portland...
AthleticsThe Gap on the Women's Track: When Victory Goes UnrecordedOn a June afternoon in Nha Trang, a youth athletics meet took place with no...
AthleticsThe Data Gap in Athletics: When the Results Board Can No Longer Name AnyoneLate one afternoon in Eldoret, in March 2026, I stood at the very edge of the...
AthleticsKenya's Track and the Women Rewriting the LimitsThe morning air in Iten is cold. At more than 2,400 metres above sea level, t...
AthleticsHistoric moment: Vietnam athletics breaks national record, wins ASIAD 2026 bronze in mixed 4x400m relayWhen the clock stopped at 3:14.54, the technical zone of the Vietnam athletic...
