Athletics
The Blank Form: Indian Athletics' Most Honest Document
The Sample Before Sydney's 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO and the Silence in the Ledger
Sindh's First Gold, 32:32.40, and the Question Nobody Asked in Karachi
The Truth in 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold in Karachi, Mahnoor's Gait and Race Walking's Thin Bench
The 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO Positive
Sindh's First Gold, 32:32.40, and the Question Nobody Asked in KarachiThe results sheet out of Karachi carried one usable line: women's 5,000m race...
The Truth in 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold in Karachi, Mahnoor's Gait and Race Walking's Thin BenchIn Karachi, the 5pm inauguration and the women's 5,000m race walk. The Expres...
The 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO PositiveThe results sheet out of Sydney on 30 August 2026 carried two numbers. The...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40 and the Blank Column on the Results Sheet: Auditing Sindh's First GoldThe first line of the results sheet out of Karachi on Thursday was complete:...
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case: The Sample Taken Before 2:18:31, and the Arithmetic of a Testing Window30 August 2026, Sydney. The clock stopped at 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir beat...
Six-Year Ban: Ruti Aga's Case Shows How a Forged Prescription Destroyed a Legitimate DefenseSeptember 10 left a permanent mark on Ruti Aga's career. On that date, the...
Ruti Aga: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the PaperThree verification checks appear in the Athletics Integrity Unit's (AIU)...
The Blank Form: Indian Athletics' Most Honest DocumentA sheet landed on my desk last week. A deconstruction format for an athletics...
Auditing an Empty File: When Athletics' Own Record Refuses to TestifyA file landed on my desk last week. It had nine sections, and all nine carrie...
2:18:31 and the Gap After It: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case Begins With a Sample Collected in Kenya, Not in SydneyI kept the Sydney Marathon live feed open all night in Chennai. Thirty...
Peres Jepchirchir and EPO: the story is where and when the sample was taken, not the verdictSydney, 30 August 2026. Peres Jepchirchir crossed the line in 2:18:31. Irene...
Sindh's first gold at 32:32.40: Mahnoor's 5,000m race walk and the three things missing from the results sheetThe first thing that caught my eye on the results sheet was a single line wit...
Zero Information Points: Where the Athletics Coverage Pipeline BreaksIt was eleven at night. Nine fields were open on the screen and every one of...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and a Race Whose Judging Cards Were Never FiledThe clock stopped at 32 minutes, 32 seconds and 40 hundredths. The results...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: The Forged Prescription Destroyed the Defence a Real Prescription Could Have SavedThe Athletics Integrity Unit's statement on 10 September contained two number...
The Sample Before Sydney's 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO and the Silence in the LedgerOn the evening of 30 August 2026, on the roads of Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir...
The Truth in 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold in Karachi, Mahnoor's Gait and Race Walking's Thin BenchIn Karachi, the 5pm inauguration and the women's 5,000m race walk. The Expres...
The 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO PositiveThe results sheet out of Sydney on 30 August 2026 carried two numbers. The...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40 and the Blank Column on the Results Sheet: Auditing Sindh's First GoldThe first line of the results sheet out of Karachi on Thursday was complete:...
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case: The Sample Taken Before 2:18:31, and the Arithmetic of a Testing Window30 August 2026, Sydney. The clock stopped at 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir beat...
Six-Year Ban: Ruti Aga's Case Shows How a Forged Prescription Destroyed a Legitimate DefenseSeptember 10 left a permanent mark on Ruti Aga's career. On that date, the...
Ruti Aga: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the PaperThree verification checks appear in the Athletics Integrity Unit's (AIU)...
The Blank Form: Indian Athletics' Most Honest DocumentA sheet landed on my desk last week. A deconstruction format for an athletics...
Auditing an Empty File: When Athletics' Own Record Refuses to TestifyA file landed on my desk last week. It had nine sections, and all nine carrie...
2:18:31 and the Gap After It: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case Begins With a Sample Collected in Kenya, Not in SydneyI kept the Sydney Marathon live feed open all night in Chennai. Thirty...
Peres Jepchirchir and EPO: the story is where and when the sample was taken, not the verdictSydney, 30 August 2026. Peres Jepchirchir crossed the line in 2:18:31. Irene...
Sindh's first gold at 32:32.40: Mahnoor's 5,000m race walk and the three things missing from the results sheetThe first thing that caught my eye on the results sheet was a single line wit...
Zero Information Points: Where the Athletics Coverage Pipeline BreaksIt was eleven at night. Nine fields were open on the screen and every one of...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and a Race Whose Judging Cards Were Never FiledThe clock stopped at 32 minutes, 32 seconds and 40 hundredths. The results...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: The Forged Prescription Destroyed the Defence a Real Prescription Could Have SavedThe Athletics Integrity Unit's statement on 10 September contained two number...
The Sample Before Sydney's 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO and the Silence in the LedgerOn the evening of 30 August 2026, on the roads of Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir...