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AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Fake Prescription Weighed More Than the DrugRuti Aga is 32, Ethiopian, the 2026 Tokyo Marathon champion and a three-time...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: When 2:18:31 in Sydney Enters ReviewIn the Sydney Marathon results book, 2:18:31 sits beside the name Peres...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir and the Kenya Sample: Nine Years of Career Curve That Warned NothingOn 30 August, in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir finished more than three minutes...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Fake Prescription From a Clinic That Never ExistedThat March morning, the half marathon course sat on the edge of a Chinese cit...
VolleyballBrazil Beat Argentina 3-0 to Claim a 16th Straight South American Women's Volleyball TitleThe most memorable moment at Maracanãzinho was not the spike that ended the...
BilliardsOne Word 'Billiards', Five Rulebooks: The Classification Gap in the Most Misunderstood SportSix years calling snooker for VTC, I once described in full the finals of the...
International FootballIcardi, Five Million Euros and the Door Valencia ClosedThe meeting in Valencia ended in under an hour. Mauro Icardi's representative...
Domestic FootballEmpty Stadium, Full Hearts: Olaha Manh Duc and Vietnamese Football's Naturalization GambleA late afternoon training session at Longquanyi, I stood long enough to see...
EsportsVietnamese football does not lack emotion, it lacks dataIn the 32nd minute of the second leg of the 2026 ASEAN Championship final in...
International FootballGermany 0-1 Greece: The Low Block Exposes Klopp's Real Structural FlawIn the 74th minute in Augsburg, Christos Tzolis drove through the middle of...
BasketballNowitzki's Hand and the Clock Already Ticking in DallasNowitzki's Hand and the Clock Already Ticking in Dallas A late March evening,...
Table TennisThe First Three Shots and the Points-Defense Race: World Table Tennis Through the Lens of DataIn a deciding game, when the score climbs to 9-6 in favour of one player, mos...
International FootballLamine Yamal and the minute-60 deceleration: where does the spark live in mechanised football?In his post-World Cup final interview, Lamine Yamal did not talk about the...
BadmintonAshmita Chaliha Questions BWF: When Super 100 Playing Conditions Become a 'Double Standard'The scoreline of 10-21, 21-10, 21-17 against Goh Jin Wei in the Round of 16 a...
BadmintonThuy Linh Falls at Vietnam Open: When World No. 72 Awakens No. 32At Nguyen Du badminton stadium, when the electronic scoreboard showed 17-14 i...
Domestic FootballVietnam U16 Lose Opening Match at CFA Team China 2026: The Price of Positive Play and Three Goals from One MechanismVietnam's U16 national team lost its opening match at the CFA Team China 2026...
SwimmingMcEvoy Tests the 100m Free on the Asian Short-Course World Cup Swing: A Decade-Old Dataset and a Relay Berth That Is Not Automatic20.75. That was the first figure I pulled when word came that Cameron McEvoy...
Domestic FootballThe V.League Transfer Window: When Effort Data Is Sold as Quality DataI have read hundreds of V.League transfer announcements over more than a...
Table TennisFour Divisions, Sixteen Under-16 Players and a Trip to the Faroes: The Development Map of Isle of Wight Table TennisOn the evening of 4 September, at the annual presentation evening of the Isle...
International FootballBrentford 3-0 Chelsea: Deep Pockets Can't Save an Empty SystemThere was a moment at Gtech Community Stadium I will never forget. On 78...
