Athletics
When the Clock Disagreed With the Crowd: Puripol Boonson's 9.91 and the Unclosed Record Ledger of the Asian Games
The 9.91-second Ledger: Puripol Boonson, the Asian Games Record, and the Wind Reading Nobody Reported
Thai Teen Boonson's 9.91s: A New Ledger Entry in Asian Games Records, But the Sum Is Not Yet Settled
The Gap Between a Whereabouts Failure and Doping: Samba-Mayela's September 18, and What the Ledger Does Not Say
AthleticsThe Results Sheet That Left the Clock Blank: Reading Asian Games Day Six AthleticsLast Wednesday, close to eleven at night, I was arranging numbers on a notebo...
AthleticsThe Eighteenth of September: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Clock, and an Incomplete Entry ListThe Eighteenth of September: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Clock, and ...
AthleticsWhen the Clock Disagreed With the Crowd: Puripol Boonson's 9.91 and the Unclosed Record Ledger of the Asian GamesNagoya in September. The Paloma Mizuho Stadium track is warm; the anemometer...
AthleticsThe 9.91-second Ledger: Puripol Boonson, the Asian Games Record, and the Wind Reading Nobody ReportedThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. O...
AthleticsThai Teen Boonson's 9.91s: A New Ledger Entry in Asian Games Records, But the Sum Is Not Yet SettledDuring my younger days, Shah Alam's hand-timed 10.35 seconds in the 100m...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: In the Whereabouts Case, the Number That Matters Is Three, Not TwoThere is a date in my ledger and no year next to it. September 18. On that da...
AthleticsSeptember 18, and a Word Called WhereaboutsThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
AthleticsThe Gap Between a Whereabouts Failure and Doping: Samba-Mayela's September 18, and What the Ledger Does Not SayAt the Stade de France on the night of 10 August 2026, I wrote three numbers...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Suspension: A File With No Timing, Only One Date and Several Empty CellsThere is a file on my laptop called SAMBA-MAYELA. Column one is the athlete's...
AthleticsThe Obligation to Write Your Address: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Geography Where Bangladesh Has No LaneSeptember 18. The date sits in the file, and beside it a name — Cyrena...
AthleticsThe Time On No Clock: A Frame-by-Frame Reading of Cyrena Samba-Mayela's SuspensionThere is no time in this file. No 12.31. No reaction time, no wind reading, n...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Ledger: A Record Still Waiting for Its Wind Signature2026 Asian Games. Nagoya, Japan, Paloma Mizuho Stadium. The board after the...
AthleticsThe Question Hidden Inside 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Record Claim and the Missing Wind ReadingThe stadium spent the evening arguing about a number. Almost nobody asked wha...
AthleticsNagoya's 9.91: The Record Whose Wind Was Never MeasuredThe light was folding over Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya when a 19-year-old...
AthleticsThe Eighteenth of September: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Clock, and an Incomplete Entry ListThe Eighteenth of September: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case, the Clock, and ...
AthleticsWhen the Clock Disagreed With the Crowd: Puripol Boonson's 9.91 and the Unclosed Record Ledger of the Asian GamesNagoya in September. The Paloma Mizuho Stadium track is warm; the anemometer...
AthleticsThe 9.91-second Ledger: Puripol Boonson, the Asian Games Record, and the Wind Reading Nobody ReportedThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had. O...
AthleticsThai Teen Boonson's 9.91s: A New Ledger Entry in Asian Games Records, But the Sum Is Not Yet SettledDuring my younger days, Shah Alam's hand-timed 10.35 seconds in the 100m...
AthleticsCyrena Samba-Mayela: In the Whereabouts Case, the Number That Matters Is Three, Not TwoThere is a date in my ledger and no year next to it. September 18. On that da...
AthleticsSeptember 18, and a Word Called WhereaboutsThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
AthleticsThe Gap Between a Whereabouts Failure and Doping: Samba-Mayela's September 18, and What the Ledger Does Not SayAt the Stade de France on the night of 10 August 2026, I wrote three numbers...
AthleticsSamba-Mayela's Suspension: A File With No Timing, Only One Date and Several Empty CellsThere is a file on my laptop called SAMBA-MAYELA. Column one is the athlete's...
AthleticsThe Obligation to Write Your Address: Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension and the Geography Where Bangladesh Has No LaneSeptember 18. The date sits in the file, and beside it a name — Cyrena...
AthleticsThe Time On No Clock: A Frame-by-Frame Reading of Cyrena Samba-Mayela's SuspensionThere is no time in this file. No 12.31. No reaction time, no wind reading, n...
AthleticsThe 9.91 Ledger: A Record Still Waiting for Its Wind Signature2026 Asian Games. Nagoya, Japan, Paloma Mizuho Stadium. The board after the...
AthleticsThe Question Hidden Inside 9.91 Seconds: Puripol Boonson's Record Claim and the Missing Wind ReadingThe stadium spent the evening arguing about a number. Almost nobody asked wha...
AthleticsNagoya's 9.91: The Record Whose Wind Was Never MeasuredThe light was folding over Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya when a 19-year-old...