Athletics
Where Is the Wind for the 9.91? Nagoya's Semifinal, an Unratified Record, and Thailand's Single-Point Sprint Sample
In the Samba-Mayela Case, the Real Witness Is the Number 3: No Time, Only a Date
Samba-Mayela's Case: Three File Dates Will Decide the 100m Hurdles
The Empty Box Next to 9.91: What Boonson's Record Says — and What It Quietly Buries
In the Samba-Mayela Case, the Real Witness Is the Number 3: No Time, Only a DateI learned one thing sitting in a timing booth: the clock never lies, but the...
Where Is the Wind for the 9.91? Nagoya's Semifinal, an Unratified Record, and Thailand's Single-Point Sprint SampleSeptember 25, 2026, Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya. Men's 100 m, semifinal one...
Samba-Mayela's Case: Three File Dates Will Decide the 100m HurdlesSeptember 18. The date belongs to a file, not a track. Cyrena Samba-Mayela — ...
The Empty Box Next to 9.91: What Boonson's Record Says — and What It Quietly BuriesHook When 9.91 lit up the board at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, evening was falling...
The Case of the Missing Address: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Timestamp and Track and Field's Unfinished ArchiveSeptember 18. Five digits, one comma, no decimal point. A season in the 100m...
9.91 in Nagoya: Thailand's New Frontier, and the Empty Box Next to ItPaloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, the last evening of September. The board reads...
9.91 in Nagoya: The Record's Clock and the Missing Wind ReadingThe Rangpur ledger began the day the clock disagreed with the crowd. In Nagoy...
The 9.91 Ledger: An Empty Wind-Gauge Cell and the Asian Games 'Record' ClaimThe Empty Cell in the Timing Sheet I opened the results file from Paloma Mizu...
Nagoya's 9.91 Seconds: A Blank Wind Box, a Teenager's Record, and Asia's Redrawn Sprint MapThe results sheet in my hand comes in two pieces today. One piece says: men's...
The 9.91 Stratum: A Nagoya Semifinal Record With an Empty Wind CellAt 12:40 a.m. on my desk in Mymensingh the laptop was showing the Nagoya feed...
The 0.08-Second Bronze: What Vietnam's Mixed 4×400m National Record in Nagoya Also Wrote Down About Its Own CeilingAt Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Vietnam still led the mixed 4×400m relay...
The 9.91 in Nagoya: A Record Still Waiting for the Wind to TestifyTime on the scoreboard, a gap in the ledger When 9.91 flashed on the scoreboa...
Zero Point Zero Eight: A Frame-by-Frame Autopsy of Vietnam's Relay BronzeThe final exchange was already complete at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya....