Athletics
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Drug, Four for a Prescription From a Clinic That Never Existed2026-10-25Start with the arithmetic, because everything else follows from it. Two years...
Ruti Aga, Six Years and a Forged Prescription: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the Paper2026-10-25The Arithmetic: 2 + 4 The most damning line in the Athletics Integrity Unit...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: The Women's Athletics Account India Never Kept2026-10-25Last week, at eleven at night, I opened this season's parity ledger. The...
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO case: an asterisk beside 2:18:31, and the accounting that is still open2026-10-24The results sheet from the Sydney Marathon of 30 August 2026 still sits in my...
The Empty Cell on the Mark Board: How Do You Report What Nobody Measured2026-10-24A two-page athletics report landed on my desk last week. Eleven columns in th...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold Is Real, But the Mark Demands an Audit Box[BOX 1 — Winning mark: 32:32.40] [BOX 2 — Pace: ~6:30.5 per km, ≈9.22 km/h]...
Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh, a 32:32.40 Clocking, and the Incomplete Picture of Pakistani Women's Race WalkingOn the track in Karachi, the women's 5,000m race walk result went up and the...
The Blank Column: Indian Athletics Produces the Data Every Meet — and Never Publishes ItOn a February 2026 morning I opened the official results sheet of a national...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Drug, Four for a Prescription From a Clinic That Never ExistedStart with the arithmetic, because everything else follows from it. Two years...
Ruti Aga, Six Years and a Forged Prescription: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the PaperThe Arithmetic: 2 + 4 The most damning line in the Athletics Integrity Unit...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: The Women's Athletics Account India Never KeptLast week, at eleven at night, I opened this season's parity ledger. The...
The Scan Was Clean, the Warm-Up Wasn't: The Injury Report Nobody Puts in a HeadlineSix in the morning in Patiala. A thrower, a short approach, a strapped right...
A Sample Before Sydney, a Win in 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir and a New Page in the LedgerSydney, 30 August 2026. The clock stopped at 2:18:31 and Irene Chepet Cheptai...
Peres Jepchirchir Faces EPO Charge: The Sample Was Taken in Kenya Before Sydney's 2:18:31The gap between first and second at the Sydney Marathon was more than three...
The 2:18:31 and the Sample Taken Before It: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO CaseThe camera kept finding empty road in the last ten kilometres of the Sydney...
The 2:18:31 File: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case Is About the Block Before Sydney, Not the WinOpen the Sydney Marathon results file. The first thing that hits you is not t...
Peres Jepchirchir Faces EPO Charge: Sample Was Taken in Kenya Before the Sydney Marathon Win, AIU Provisionally Suspends Her30 August 2026, Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir crossed the finish line and the clo...
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO case: an asterisk beside 2:18:31, and the accounting that is still openThe results sheet from the Sydney Marathon of 30 August 2026 still sits in my...
Excavating an Empty File: When Every Column in a Scouting Dossier Reads N/AThere are eleven columns in the file lying on my desk in Chennai. The first w...
The Empty Cell on the Mark Board: How Do You Report What Nobody MeasuredA two-page athletics report landed on my desk last week. Eleven columns in th...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: How One Forged Prescription Turned a Two-Year Sanction Into a Career's EndThe laptop was still playing the last five kilometres of the 2026 Tokyo...