Athletics
The Kit Archive: 2026 to 2026, and the History That Never Reached Our Lanes
A Suit Sewn at 37 Degrees, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 1:56.40
17:44, 19:25, 20:25 — Vietnam's Gold Arithmetic and the Cold Maths of the Track at Asiad 20
From 17:44 to 20:25: Vietnam's Gold Hope, and the Timeline Nobody Wrote Down
Twenty-Five Laps and One Headline: Asiad 20's September 24, Where Expectation Ran Before the Result
Twenty-Five Laps, One Expectation: Auditing Vietnam's 10,000m Hope at the Asian Games
17:44, 19:25, 20:25 — Vietnam's Gold Arithmetic and the Cold Maths of the Track at Asiad 2017:44, 19:25, 20:25. Three timestamps on a single track card. The Vietnamese...
From 17:44 to 20:25: Vietnam's Gold Hope, and the Timeline Nobody Wrote DownDecember 2026, National Stadium, Dhaka. Roughly 140 accredited journalists in...
The Kit Archive: 2026 to 2026, and the History That Never Reached Our LanesOctober 2026. Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka. Day two of the 40th Nation...
Twenty-Five Laps and One Headline: Asiad 20's September 24, Where Expectation Ran Before the ResultThe first thing I did was count. On September 24, Asiad 20's athletics schedu...
Twenty-Five Laps, One Expectation: Auditing Vietnam's 10,000m Hope at the Asian Games7:25 in the evening. Twenty-five laps are waiting on the track, and the...
Asiad 20, September 24: Vietnam's Hope in the 10,000m, and the Brutal Arithmetic of the Medal Table7:25 in the evening. The floodlights settle over the track, nine lanes of red...
The Record No One Can Verify: Blockchain, Timing Regimes and the Empty Data SheetThe Record No One Can Verify: Blockchain, Timing Regimes and the Empty Data...
A Three-Million-Pound Announcement, Eight Cities With No Track: Europe's Prize Fund and My LedgerThe most-discussed number in European athletics this cycle is not anyone's...
The 19:25 Ledger: Vietnam's Expectation, an Empty Data Sheet, and a Narrow Medal Base on Day Four of the Asian GamesTwo numbers on the September 24 schedule caught my eye. One was 19:25 — the...
Asiad 20 Diary September 24: Is the Nguyen Thi Oanh Expectation Running Ahead of the Ledger?The first thing I did was count. In the morning edition, Vietnam's name carri...
The One-Second Ledger: What Ngetich's Copenhagen Record Does Not SayOne second. Twenty-one point zero nine seven five kilometres, six thousand ni...
Keely Hodgkinson's 'Speed Suit': Science or Market? The Drag-Reduction Math That Doesn't Work at 800mKeely Hodgkinson's 'Speed Suit': Science or Market? The Drag-Reduction Math...
Beds Too Short, Bus Missing, Wrong Anthem: The Empty Cells in the Aichi-Nagoya LedgerThe dateline on that Reuters dispatch read "NAGOYA, Japan, Sept 22." No year....
A Suit Sewn at 37 Degrees, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 1:56.40Hook: The clock and the camera looked at different things At the finish line...
330 Kilometres, 24,000 Metres and a 12-Hour Buffer: Vietnam's Two Finishers at Tor des GéantsIt was 3:10 in the morning in Mymensingh and I was refreshing a live tracking...
Eight Percent From the Guillotine: Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants Finishes and What They Actually MeanHook: Seven Life Bases and a Guillotine The 150-hour clock at Tor des Géants ...
From 17:44 to 20:25: Vietnam's Gold Hope, and the Timeline Nobody Wrote DownDecember 2026, National Stadium, Dhaka. Roughly 140 accredited journalists in...
The Kit Archive: 2026 to 2026, and the History That Never Reached Our LanesOctober 2026. Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka. Day two of the 40th Nation...
Twenty-Five Laps and One Headline: Asiad 20's September 24, Where Expectation Ran Before the ResultThe first thing I did was count. On September 24, Asiad 20's athletics schedu...
Twenty-Five Laps, One Expectation: Auditing Vietnam's 10,000m Hope at the Asian Games7:25 in the evening. Twenty-five laps are waiting on the track, and the...
Asiad 20, September 24: Vietnam's Hope in the 10,000m, and the Brutal Arithmetic of the Medal Table7:25 in the evening. The floodlights settle over the track, nine lanes of red...
The Record No One Can Verify: Blockchain, Timing Regimes and the Empty Data SheetThe Record No One Can Verify: Blockchain, Timing Regimes and the Empty Data...
A Three-Million-Pound Announcement, Eight Cities With No Track: Europe's Prize Fund and My LedgerThe most-discussed number in European athletics this cycle is not anyone's...
The 19:25 Ledger: Vietnam's Expectation, an Empty Data Sheet, and a Narrow Medal Base on Day Four of the Asian GamesTwo numbers on the September 24 schedule caught my eye. One was 19:25 — the...
Asiad 20 Diary September 24: Is the Nguyen Thi Oanh Expectation Running Ahead of the Ledger?The first thing I did was count. In the morning edition, Vietnam's name carri...
The One-Second Ledger: What Ngetich's Copenhagen Record Does Not SayOne second. Twenty-one point zero nine seven five kilometres, six thousand ni...
Keely Hodgkinson's 'Speed Suit': Science or Market? The Drag-Reduction Math That Doesn't Work at 800mKeely Hodgkinson's 'Speed Suit': Science or Market? The Drag-Reduction Math...
Beds Too Short, Bus Missing, Wrong Anthem: The Empty Cells in the Aichi-Nagoya LedgerThe dateline on that Reuters dispatch read "NAGOYA, Japan, Sept 22." No year....
A Suit Sewn at 37 Degrees, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 1:56.40Hook: The clock and the camera looked at different things At the finish line...
330 Kilometres, 24,000 Metres and a 12-Hour Buffer: Vietnam's Two Finishers at Tor des GéantsIt was 3:10 in the morning in Mymensingh and I was refreshing a live tracking...
Eight Percent From the Guillotine: Vietnam's Two Tor des Géants Finishes and What They Actually MeanHook: Seven Life Bases and a Guillotine The 150-hour clock at Tor des Géants ...