Athletics
Three Dates, Two Surfaces, One Incomplete Ledger: Auditing Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case
4.15 Metres and an Incomplete Results Sheet: Auditing Athletics on Day Six in Aichi-Nagoya
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Ban Length Is the Real Unknown
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: In a Whereabouts Case, the Real Risk Isn't the Ban — It's the Calendar
9.91 and the Empty Wind Column: Puripol Boonson's Asian Games Record and the Debt of VerificationThe number is 9.91, and beside it sits an empty cell Minutes after the men's...
The Ledger Entry Dated September 18: Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case and the Testimony of an Empty ColumnThere is a column in my ledger called "Whereabouts." I created it in 2026, at...
Three Dates, Two Surfaces, One Incomplete Ledger: Auditing Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts CaseThe night of the 2026 Dhaka SAF Games, sitting in the BTV commentary box, the...
4.15 Metres and an Incomplete Results Sheet: Auditing Athletics on Day Six in Aichi-NagoyaAt three in the morning Dhaka time I opened the Day Six athletics sheet from...
The Time Column Is Empty: Four Athletics Results From Asian Games Day 6, and a Ledger That Doesn't Add UpThe first thing I did was count. The second was wonder why no one else had....
9.91 in Nagoya: The Empty Column Beside the RecordThe scoreboard at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium read 9.91. My eye went to th...
The 9.91 Clock and the Anemometer: The Question Nobody Is Asking in NagoyaThe Rangpur audit began the day the clock disagreed with the crowd. June 2026...
The Ledger of 9.91 Seconds: How to Read a Record When the Anemometer Stays SilentI began with the ledger, and the legend arrived later. By the time the men's...
The Results Sheet With No Time On It: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, the AIU, and the Arithmetic of Two YearsMy files still hold photocopies of the hand-written results sheets from the...
9.91 Seconds and One Empty Cell: Where Puripol Boonson's Games Record Stays UnfinishedWhen the board at Nagoya's Paloma Mizuho Stadium flashed 9.91, nobody in the...
Puripol Boonson's 9.91 Seconds: An Asian Games Record, an Empty Wind Cell, and Thailand's One-Man LoadThe number that lit the scoreboard at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya after t...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Suspension: The Count of Failures, Not the Silver Medal, Is the StoryThe date first, the name second Three kinds of documents land on my desk: ent...
Cyrena Samba-Mayela's Whereabouts Case: The Ban Length Is the Real UnknownHook The withdrawal from August's European Championships was filed under...
The September 18 Ledger Entry: Cyrena Samba-Mayela, Whereabouts Failures and the Arithmetic of a Lost SeasonI was sitting at my table in Dhaka, logging the split times of the Paris 2026...
Three in Twelve: In Samba-Mayela's Case, the Calendar, Not the Clock, Is the EvidenceSeptember 18. No track was built that day, no lane was painted, no starter...
Samba-Mayela's Provisional Suspension: In a Whereabouts Case, the Real Risk Isn't the Ban — It's the CalendarA Friday confirmation and an 18 September stamp. Put the two dates side by si...