Athletics
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Apex Still Sits More Than 20 Minutes Off the Global Standard
Vietnamese Athletics in the Regular Season: Reading Performance Through a Data Gap
After the Jakarta 2026 Golden Era: Quach Thi Lan, Nguyen Thi Oanh and the Generational Void in Vietnamese Athletics
The Empty Zone of Vietnamese Athletics: As Lan and Oanh Past Their Prime, a New Generation Yet to Emerge
AthleticsThe Empty Wind Column: Vietnamese Athletics Is Reading Its Own Results With Half the DataThe results sheet went up on the concrete wall of stand B at 16:40, after the...
AthleticsThe Empty Load Log: When an Injury Report Has No Data, That Is the Most Serious Injury of AllI once sat in front of a completely empty injury file for fourteen months, an...
AthleticsUnsourced Metrics and the Cost of Hasty Conclusions in Vietnam's V-LeagueA graphic surfaced on social media after the latest V-League round: a central...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Apex Still Sits More Than 20 Minutes Off the Global StandardAt 01:30 on race morning, Nguyen Du Street was dark enough that people...
Athletics2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Hanoi Race Record Is Not an Athletics RecordThat morning I stood at the foot of Long Bien Bridge at 4:30, after the 42km...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 course record and the 20-minute gap to global standardsAt 01:30, the 42.195 km group left the start line beside Hoan Kiem Lake in th...
AthleticsVietnamese Athletics and the Data Void: If You Can't Measure It, Don't Write ItOn 12 May 2026, I sat in my office in Nha Trang and opened a performance file...
AthleticsNine Dimensions of Athletics Analysis: The Discipline of Silence Before an Empty Data GridIn Osaka, I open the spreadsheet before I open the news feed. That morning, t...
AthleticsKipchoge wins Melbourne Marathon 2026 in 2:09:10: two seconds of record, eight and a half minutes of distanceBetween kilometres 25 and 30, Eliud Kipchoge's split flashed a number that ma...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: Decoding Seven World Records and the Trap of a Flat CourseThe clock at the finish line in Grant Park stopped at 2:09:56, and in that...
AthleticsThe 20th Mile of the Portland Marathon and the Cardiac Screening Gap in Mass Road RacingAt mile 18, his wife leaned down and kissed him. Two miles later, at mile 20,...
AthleticsA 25-Year-Old Marathoner Collapsed at Mile 20: The Screening Gap in Mass-Participation MarathonsAt mile 18, his wife stood on the roadside and kissed him. Two miles later, a...
AthleticsTrey Lara's Mile 20: The Cardiac Screening Gap Mass Marathons Cannot MeasureAt mile 18, Trey Lara stopped to kiss his wife. Two miles later, at mile 20,...
AthleticsThe Empty Load Log: When an Injury Report Has No Data, That Is the Most Serious Injury of AllI once sat in front of a completely empty injury file for fourteen months, an...
AthleticsUnsourced Metrics and the Cost of Hasty Conclusions in Vietnam's V-LeagueA graphic surfaced on social media after the latest V-League round: a central...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Breaks the Course Record, but Vietnam's Marathon Apex Still Sits More Than 20 Minutes Off the Global StandardAt 01:30 on race morning, Nguyen Du Street was dark enough that people...
Athletics2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When a Hanoi Race Record Is Not an Athletics RecordThat morning I stood at the foot of Long Bien Bridge at 4:30, after the 42km...
AthleticsVPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 course record and the 20-minute gap to global standardsAt 01:30, the 42.195 km group left the start line beside Hoan Kiem Lake in th...
AthleticsVietnamese Athletics and the Data Void: If You Can't Measure It, Don't Write ItOn 12 May 2026, I sat in my office in Nha Trang and opened a performance file...
AthleticsNine Dimensions of Athletics Analysis: The Discipline of Silence Before an Empty Data GridIn Osaka, I open the spreadsheet before I open the news feed. That morning, t...
AthleticsKipchoge wins Melbourne Marathon 2026 in 2:09:10: two seconds of record, eight and a half minutes of distanceBetween kilometres 25 and 30, Eliud Kipchoge's split flashed a number that ma...
AthleticsChicago Marathon: Decoding Seven World Records and the Trap of a Flat CourseThe clock at the finish line in Grant Park stopped at 2:09:56, and in that...
AthleticsThe 20th Mile of the Portland Marathon and the Cardiac Screening Gap in Mass Road RacingAt mile 18, his wife leaned down and kissed him. Two miles later, at mile 20,...
AthleticsA 25-Year-Old Marathoner Collapsed at Mile 20: The Screening Gap in Mass-Participation MarathonsAt mile 18, his wife stood on the roadside and kissed him. Two miles later, a...
AthleticsTrey Lara's Mile 20: The Cardiac Screening Gap Mass Marathons Cannot MeasureAt mile 18, Trey Lara stopped to kiss his wife. Two miles later, at mile 20,...