Athletics
September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Ledger and Three Missing Numbers
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Numbers Missing from the AIU File
9.91 in Nagoya: The Empty Box Beside Boonson's Record
A 0.03-Second Silver and a September 18 Notice: When the Clock Hands Over to the Calendar in the Samba-Mayela Case
A 0.03-Second Silver and a September 18 Notice: When the Clock Hands Over to the Calendar in the Samba-Mayela CaseOn the night of August 10, 2026, at the Stade de France, the women's 100m...
Nagoya's 9.91: What the Clock Wrote, and What It Hasn't YetAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium the board flashed 9.91 as the first semifin...
September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Ledger and Three Missing NumbersSeptember 18 is a wire date, not a finish time. No seconds were added to Cyre...
Silver Without a Clock: India's Track and Field on Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya, and the Empty Cells in the LedgerThe first thing that catches the eye on the results sheet is not the silver —...
Where the Clock Is Missing: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Wrong Vocabulary of Anti-DopingWhere the Clock Is Missing: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Numbers Missing from the AIU FileWhen the AIU's name came across my screen on Friday, the first thing I counte...
The Offence of an Address: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case and the Uneven Weight of the Anti-Doping SystemThe gap that glowed on the clock after the 2026 Olympic final at the Stade de...
The Time the Results Sheet Left Out: Four Names and a Missing Count on Day 6 of the Asian GamesThe Day 6 results sheet arrived from Aichi-Nagoya. Twenty-two medals in India...
The 9.91 in Nagoya: A Record's Doorway and an Empty Wind ColumnThe smell of old carbon-copy sheets still clings to my hands. Dhaka, 2026, th...
Nagoya's 9.91: Boonson's Record, the Empty Wind Box, and the Arithmetic of Our Sprint LedgerNagoya's 9.91: Boonson's Record, the Empty Wind Box, and the Arithmetic of Ou...
4.15m, 17.17m and One Missing Time: India's Athletics on Day Six at the 2026 Asian GamesThe light was draining off the pole vault apron in Aichi-Nagoya when the boar...
9.91 in Nagoya: The Empty Box Beside Boonson's RecordThe board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya lit up with 9.91. Beside it, the...
The 9.91 in Nagoya: A Record With Its Wind Column Left BlankThe board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium read 9.91. Puripol Boonson, born 2026,...
Samba-Mayela's Temporary Suspension: The Whereabouts Breach Where 'No Substance' Still Carries Big RiskAn envelope, not a stopwatch, may now decide Cyrena Samba-Mayela's season—and...
A Whereabouts Failure, Not Doping: What the Ledger Says About Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Case — and What the Broadcast Leaves OutBefore the Hype, There Was a Ledger Entry The news landed on a Friday. The...