Athletics
32:32.40: Mahnoor's gold and the denominator Pakistan's race walking never published
32:32.40 — Sindh’s First Gold, and a Result Sheet That Records a Time but No Witnesses
Arshad Nadeem's File: The Names Missing After 92.97
Arshad Nadeem's 'Fresh Start': A Coach's Prescription, Four Missing Voices and the Weight of 92.97m
Arshad Nadeem's 'Fresh Start': A Coach's Advice and a Missing Medical File
Arshad Nadeem's File: The Names Missing After 92.97The night of 8 August 2026, Stade de France. Second round of the men's javeli...
Arshad Nadeem's 'Fresh Start': A Coach's Prescription, Four Missing Voices and the Weight of 92.97mOn the night of August 8, 2026, the javelin runway at the Stade de France...
Arshad Nadeem's 'Fresh Start': A Coach's Advice and a Missing Medical FileA Lahore newspaper carries a coach's four-point prescription for Arshad Nadee...
An Empty File Is Not a Clean File: The Anatomy of a Data Failure in Athletics CoverageNine sections. Four or five lines in each. And in front of every line, the sa...
N/A Is Not a Clean Bill: Auditing the Empty Return in Indian Athletics' LedgerOn the last day of the 2026 National Games I typed 1,860 performances into a...
The Blank Cell Audit: An Athletics Report With No Date, No Wind Reading and No VenueThe results board went up on the press-room wall and half the room stopped...
Auditing 32:32.40: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh and the Empty Columns of Race WalkingThe result sheet had one bright line: Mahnoor, 32:32.40, Sindh's first gold a...
A Blank Cell Is Not a Clean Record: What 'N/A' Actually Means in Indian Athletics ReportingThe most talkative part of a results sheet is the column nobody filled in. Th...
32:32.40: Mahnoor's gold and the denominator Pakistan's race walking never publishedHook: one number on a results sheet, and the white space around it On Thursda...
Behind 89.45m: Indian athletics keeps its real scoreboard on recruitment forms8 August 2026, Stade de France. The men's javelin final. Arshad Nadeem's spea...
The Sample Filled Before Sydney: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Load Economy of the MarathonThe morning Peres Jepchirchir ran through Sydney, a sample bottle had already...
The Record That Came Back Blank: Inside Indian Athletics' Documentation GapLast week a report landed on my desk. Blank title. Blank source. No athlete, ...
The Audit of Zero: Data Provenance and the Crisis of Indian Athletics ReportingA JSON file sat open on my desk in Pune. It had nine fields — event and...
Sydney's Seventh Major and the Four Weeks Nobody CountedA urine sample was sealed in Kenya. The date on the tube was before the Sydne...
32:32.40 — Sindh’s First Gold, and a Result Sheet That Records a Time but No WitnessesEntry: One Number, and the Emptiness Around It On Thursday evening, a line wa...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold in Karachi, and the Blank Half of the Result SheetThirty-two minutes, thirty-two seconds and forty hundredths. That is the time...