Athletics
Athletics Reporting Workshop in Chennai: Focus on Paper Trail and Selection File
The Empty Pipeline: Why Indian Athletics Keeps Losing Its Women's Stories
The Empty Ledger: When an Athletics Report Arrives Without a Mark, a Wind Reading or a Venue
Hanoi Marathon 2026: A 2:47:52 'Crown' and a 21-Minute Gap to Olympic Standard
Don't Read N/A as Clearance: The Empty Athletics Report That Maps India's Real Risk SurfaceThe sheet that opened on the Boston data desk on Monday morning had nine...
The Empty Start List: Indian Athletics' Biggest Record Is the One Nobody Ever FiledPatiala, 10 March 2026. First morning of the 24th Federation Cup. The starter...
The Empty Column: In Indian Women's Athletics, the Most Important Number Is the One Nobody RecordsLast season I asked for the entry list of a state-level meet. Two weeks later...
Athletics Reporting Workshop in Chennai: Focus on Paper Trail and Selection FileAt a media studio in Chennai on Saturday morning, when I began a workshop on...
The Empty Column: In Athletics, Verification Is the Real RecordI started hand-coding a Championship season in a two-room Liverpool office, a...
The Empty Pipeline: Why Indian Athletics Keeps Losing Its Women's StoriesThe Mixed Zone Nobody Wanted I still remember an afternoon at the London...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 2:47:52 'Record' and the Truth of the Host City's RoadsA 1:30 a.m. start. Over 11,000 runners on the streets of Hanoi, four differen...
The Empty Ledger: When an Athletics Report Arrives Without a Mark, a Wind Reading or a VenueI keep two notebooks — one for the score, one for the silence after it. Last...
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 2:47:52 Crown and the 21-Minute Gap — The Record, the Route, and the Truth Missing from the Press NoteI keep two notebooks — one for the score, one for the silence after it. The...
Hanoi Marathon 2026: The 2:47:52 Crown and a Lesson for India — The Clock's Truth Behind 'Golden Weather'When the first wave was released on the streets of Hanoi at 1:30 a.m., the...
VPIM 2026 Hanoi Marathon: The 1:30 AM Start, Three Bridges, and What That 'Record' Actually IsAt 1:30 AM in Hanoi, more than 11,000 runners stood on closed city roads. The...
Hanoi Marathon 2026: A 2:47:52 'Crown' and a 21-Minute Gap to Olympic StandardAt 1:30 a.m., more than 11,000 pairs of shoes were echoing through the street...
1:30 a.m. in Hanoi: Three Bridges, 11,000 Runners and a Course Record Sitting 21 Minutes From Olympic StandardAt 1:30 in the morning, the timing mats go down on Long Bien Bridge. A...
The 1:30 A.M. Record: Three Bridges, One Course Record and an Unbilled Tax Inside the Hanoi Marathon Timing SheetOne-thirty in the morning. The steel deck of Long Bien bridge, a 120-year-old...
