Athletics
Puripol Boonson's 9.91: An Asian Games Record Whose Ledger Is Still Open
9.91 Seconds, One Empty Cell, and the Asian Games' Biggest Unfinished Ledger
Not the Stopwatch, the Filing Form: What Is Actually Being Measured in Samba-Mayela's Suspension
9.91 in Nagoya: The Clock Has Signed, the Wind Has Not
ASIAD 2026: Vietnam's 3:14.54 National Record, and the 1.67 Seconds Surrendered on the Anchor Leg
AthleticsThe Results Sheet With No Times: India's Athletics on Day Six at Aichi-NagoyaAt the press tribune in Aichi-Nagoya, the first thing I looked for on the Day...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Number Nobody Printed Is the One That MattersThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why nobody else had. T...
AthleticsThe Record Hanging in the Gap of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Semifinal and the Unwritten Page of WindThe Record Hanging in the Gap of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Semifinal an...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson's 9.91: An Asian Games Record Whose Ledger Is Still OpenI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. At Paloma Mizuho Stadi...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: Where Time Is Measured by a Calendar, Not a StopwatchThe Paris final still sits on its own page in my notebook. In the 2026 Olympi...
Athletics9.91 Seconds: A Nagoya Teenager and the Old Question in Dhaka's LedgerHook: A headline with no witness for the wind When the board flashed 9.91, th...
Athletics9.91 Seconds, One Empty Cell, and the Asian Games' Biggest Unfinished LedgerThe clock flashed 9.91 in the first semifinal, and Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho...
AthleticsNot the Stopwatch, the Filing Form: What Is Actually Being Measured in Samba-Mayela's SuspensionSeptember 18. On my desk calendar that date starts two clocks at once. One is...
AthleticsOne Missing Line in the Ledger: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension, the Date, and the Arithmetic of the ClockHook September 18. No starting pistol fired at any stadium that day, no...
Athletics9.91 in Nagoya: The Clock Has Signed, the Wind Has NotSeptember 24, 2026. Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, Japan. In the qualifying...
Athletics9.91 Seconds and One Empty Cell: The Asian Games 'Record' Is Still HangingThe Paloma Mizuho Stadium scoreboard read 9.91 at the end of the semifinal. O...
AthleticsThe Missing Wind Reading: How Much of Puripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds Is Evidence, and How Much Is SouvenirThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium said 9.91, and Thailand's...
AthleticsThe 0.08-Second Ledger: Vietnam's Anchor Leg in Nagoya and the Arithmetic of a Fragile RelayThe camera caught only a couple of seconds of the fourth leg at Paloma Mizuho...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Ledger: Where Boonson's Asian Games Record StopsThe number I went looking for after the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium...
AthleticsASIAD 2026: Vietnam's 3:14.54 National Record, and the 1.67 Seconds Surrendered on the Anchor LegI went looking for an athlete and found a ledger instead. The result sheet th...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: The Number Nobody Printed Is the One That MattersThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why nobody else had. T...
AthleticsThe Record Hanging in the Gap of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Semifinal and the Unwritten Page of WindThe Record Hanging in the Gap of 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Semifinal an...
AthleticsPuripol Boonson's 9.91: An Asian Games Record Whose Ledger Is Still OpenI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. At Paloma Mizuho Stadi...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: Where Time Is Measured by a Calendar, Not a StopwatchThe Paris final still sits on its own page in my notebook. In the 2026 Olympi...
Athletics9.91 Seconds: A Nagoya Teenager and the Old Question in Dhaka's LedgerHook: A headline with no witness for the wind When the board flashed 9.91, th...
Athletics9.91 Seconds, One Empty Cell, and the Asian Games' Biggest Unfinished LedgerThe clock flashed 9.91 in the first semifinal, and Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho...
AthleticsNot the Stopwatch, the Filing Form: What Is Actually Being Measured in Samba-Mayela's SuspensionSeptember 18. On my desk calendar that date starts two clocks at once. One is...
AthleticsOne Missing Line in the Ledger: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension, the Date, and the Arithmetic of the ClockHook September 18. No starting pistol fired at any stadium that day, no...
Athletics9.91 in Nagoya: The Clock Has Signed, the Wind Has NotSeptember 24, 2026. Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, Japan. In the qualifying...
Athletics9.91 Seconds and One Empty Cell: The Asian Games 'Record' Is Still HangingThe Paloma Mizuho Stadium scoreboard read 9.91 at the end of the semifinal. O...
AthleticsThe Missing Wind Reading: How Much of Puripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds Is Evidence, and How Much Is SouvenirThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium said 9.91, and Thailand's...
AthleticsThe 0.08-Second Ledger: Vietnam's Anchor Leg in Nagoya and the Arithmetic of a Fragile RelayThe camera caught only a couple of seconds of the fourth leg at Paloma Mizuho...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Ledger: Where Boonson's Asian Games Record StopsThe number I went looking for after the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium...
AthleticsASIAD 2026: Vietnam's 3:14.54 National Record, and the 1.67 Seconds Surrendered on the Anchor LegI went looking for an athlete and found a ledger instead. The result sheet th...