Athletics
Rasselbock Backyard Ultra and the all-female podium: what the data says and what it does notThe loop is 4.16 miles, or 6.706 km. On the hour, every hour, everyone still ...
Blank Fields in Sports Dossiers: How the Data Industry Fills Gaps With GuessworkNagoya, 2:40 a.m. on 13 August. A result file had just been pushed through th...
Kaçkar by UTMB: Two Thousand Footsteps, Sixty Countries, and the Trade-Off of SportThe Ayder Plateau sits at more than 1,300 metres, in the Çamlıhemşin district...
The Empty Analysis and the Data Discipline of a Sports WriterIn the analysis room in Tokyo on an August morning, the screen displayed a da...
155 Hours and 30,000 Broad Jumps: Notes from the Sideline of Kevin Ociepka's Burpee Marathon RecordAround the 98th hour of the journey, Parkstadion Baunatal was almost empty. N...
10 Million Dollars, Two Burned Throws, and Who Really Profits from Athletics' Richest ShowThe opening night of the highest-prize athletics event in history closed in...
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Withdraws From the 1500m in Tokyo: An Achilles, Eleven Silent Months, and a Rivalry Deferred to 2027At 1:47 a.m. on 12 September 2026, in Nha Trang, I sat in front of a phone...
Y Ty 2026: Van Trang wins women's 42km, second overall, and a debate that never touched the trail11:26, Vietnam time, September 6, 2026. The final timing mat of the 42km cour...
Kaçkar by UTMB Second Edition: 2,000 Runners from 60 Countries and the Data Nobody Put on the BoardAt the Ayder plateau, about 1,350 metres above sea level, a banner is strung...
