Athletics
The 400m record that stood for forty years is on watch
Two runners have gone under 43.5 this season. The track, the shoes and the schedule all say why.
Tennis
Serve speed is up four percent. Rally length is down nine
The balls changed in March. The tour has been arguing about it since.
Reportage
The last terrace: a season standing up
Twenty-five clubs, one pilot licence and a generation of fans who never stood at a match. Nine months in the safe-standing sections — and…
Athletics
Pacing lights are rewriting the marathon, one lap at a time
A green line on the kerb has changed how the last ten kilometres are run.
Athletics
Sub-3:30 at nineteen: the last 400m
The bell lap of the fastest 1500m by a teenager this century, with the splits.
Athletics
Pole vault’s quiet arms race
Carbon, resin and a rulebook that has not caught up: inside the pole that added ten centimetres.
Athletics
What a month at altitude actually does
Red cells, sleep and the two weeks after coming down, measured on twelve distance runners.
Watch
The last terrace: a season standing up
Twenty-five clubs, one pilot licence and a generation of fans who never stood at a match. Filmed across nine months in the safe-standing sections.
Essays
Sport has a memory problem, and the archives are being deleted
The tapes are decaying, the rights are contested, and nobody is paid to care.
Interviews
Sofia Lindqvist on eleven months of a body built for eight
The tour asks for eleven months of a body that was built for eight.
