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Amendments

Where we change something we have already published, and why.

How this works

Every amendment is listed here, newest first, one entry each: date, piece, section and issue, the words before and the words after, and one sentence on how it got through. Nothing is ever removed from this index, and the amended words are quoted in full, not described, so a reader can see what was on the page without taking our word for it. On the affected piece, a dated amendment note sits at the foot, and the copy above it is changed openly rather than swapped in silence.

A factual error is always amended, whatever its size and whoever noticed it, and so is an over-precision, where our copy is more specific than the source it rests on. A matter of interpretation is not an amendment, and neither is a judgement a reader disagrees with. Typographical and house-style fixes go unrecorded.

The record

Amendment 002 · 24 August 2026

The Circuit, Edition №4

The Circuit · 17 August 2026

The words before
"Taranto comes next. Padel enters the Mediterranean Games programme as a medal sport for the first time, with competition running from 22 to 28 August: 136 athletes from 18 Mediterranean national federations, in men's, women's and mixed events."
The words after
"Taranto comes next. Padel enters the Mediterranean Games programme as a medal sport for the first time, with competition running from 22 to 28 August: 136 total participants from 18 Mediterranean national federations, in men's, women's and mixed events."
How it got through
FIP's release of 16 July gives the figure as "136 total participants". Our copy said athletes, which is more specific than the source it rested on, and this policy treats an over-precision as an amendment. FIP has since published a different figure again, 88 athletes from 18 nations, in its releases of 15 and 19 August. We cannot reconcile the two from the releases alone and have not guessed at which count includes coaches and officials; Edition №5 sets both out. The dates, the federation count and Athletica Vaticana's status as a guest are unchanged.

Amendment 001 · 16 August 2026

The year it became an institution

The Archive · Issue Two

The words before
"Three national associations sat down that day in the clubhouse of the Club de Golf La Moraleja and agreed to invent a rulebook and a champion for a game that had been getting along without either for twenty years."
The words after
"Three national associations sat down that day at the Club de Golf La Moraleja and agreed to invent a rulebook and a champion for a game that had been getting along without either for twenty years."
How it got through
FIP's own account says only that they met at the club, and which building they sat in is documented nowhere we could find. The date, the city, the club and the three founding associations are unchanged.