Athletics
Asiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses Medals2026-10-20Asiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses Medal...
Three golds, 348 athletes, and the empty athletics box on the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad medal table2026-10-20On the closing night of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, the Olympic Council of Asia...
Three Minutes for 200 Metres: The Wife-Carrying Race in Can Gio and the Real Speed of Vietnam's Running Boom2026-10-18The legs tuck up to stay off the ground, the wife locks her arms around her...
A Data Void in Vietnamese Athletics and the Discipline of Not Guessing2026-10-16At three in the morning I reopened the tracking sheet from a domestic athleti...
When the Injury Data File Comes Back Empty: The Line Between Analysis and Fabrication2026-10-07Three in the morning, and the monitor in my Shanghai office was still glowing...
The Empty Record: What Happens to Kenyan Women's Athletics History When Data Is Abandoned Mid-RaceIn the archive of Athletics Kenya, in the basement of an old building on Moi...
Vietnam's athletics needs an anemometer before it needs another medalAt a provincial youth athletics meet, a long jumper lands around 5.90 metres....
Asiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses MedalsAsiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses Medal...
Three golds, 348 athletes, and the empty athletics box on the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad medal tableOn the closing night of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, the Olympic Council of Asia...
The Blank Results Sheet in Nairobi and the Price of an Unrecorded RaceThe electronic timer in lane 4 went silent at the exact moment it needed to...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Thin Apex of Vietnamese Marathon RunningAt 01:30, at the foot of the ramp leading onto Long Bien Bridge, Hanoi was co...
Three Minutes for 200 Metres: The Wife-Carrying Race in Can Gio and the Real Speed of Vietnam's Running BoomThe legs tuck up to stay off the ground, the wife locks her arms around her...
ASIAD 2026: One Gold in Ten Days and Vietnam Athletics' Relay GambleOn day ten of ASIAD 2026, the gymnastics scoreboard showed a 0.001-point gap ...
When the Data Goes Silent: Nine Analytical Dimensions and the Ethical Line in Sports WritingOn the grandstand, the electronic board went dark. The timing system had...
Nameless Strides on the Iten Plateau: Kenya's Women's Athletics Generation and the Race Between Sporting Value and the MarketI stood at the edge of the red dirt road leading up to Iten at 6:12 in the...
The Empty Analysis Sheet and Vietnam's Track: The Discipline of a Data AnalystOn Tuesday morning I opened the analysis file for Vietnam's national athletic...
Vietnam's athletics needs an anemometer before it needs another medalAt a provincial youth athletics meet, a long jumper lands around 5.90 metres....
Asiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses MedalsAsiad 20 September 29: Sepak Takraw Wins Gold, Vietnam Athletics Misses Medal...
Three golds, 348 athletes, and the empty athletics box on the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad medal tableOn the closing night of Asiad 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, the Olympic Council of Asia...
The Blank Results Sheet in Nairobi and the Price of an Unrecorded RaceThe electronic timer in lane 4 went silent at the exact moment it needed to...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Thin Apex of Vietnamese Marathon RunningAt 01:30, at the foot of the ramp leading onto Long Bien Bridge, Hanoi was co...
Three Minutes for 200 Metres: The Wife-Carrying Race in Can Gio and the Real Speed of Vietnam's Running BoomThe legs tuck up to stay off the ground, the wife locks her arms around her...
ASIAD 2026: One Gold in Ten Days and Vietnam Athletics' Relay GambleOn day ten of ASIAD 2026, the gymnastics scoreboard showed a 0.001-point gap ...
When the Data Goes Silent: Nine Analytical Dimensions and the Ethical Line in Sports WritingOn the grandstand, the electronic board went dark. The timing system had...
Nameless Strides on the Iten Plateau: Kenya's Women's Athletics Generation and the Race Between Sporting Value and the MarketI stood at the edge of the red dirt road leading up to Iten at 6:12 in the...
The Empty Analysis Sheet and Vietnam's Track: The Discipline of a Data AnalystOn Tuesday morning I opened the analysis file for Vietnam's national athletic...