Athletics
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: A Knee Injection, a Forged Prescription, and the Defence That Destroyed Itself2026-10-26There was a half marathon on a road in China in March, and the athlete who wo...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: a forged prescription, a clinic that never existed, and a glucocorticoid every headline called a 'steroid'2026-10-25The urine sample was collected after Ruti Aga won a half marathon in China in...
Sindh's first gold at 32:32.40: what Pakistan's race walk measured, and what went unrecorded2026-10-2532 minutes 32.40 seconds. That was the winning time in the women's 5,000m rac...
Three Minutes, One Sample and an Untested Page: Reading the Peres Jepchirchir File2026-10-25Thirty August 2026, Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir's marathon finished in two hour...
2:18:31 and the Sample That Came Before It: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO, and the Paper Economy of the Marathon2026-10-24There is a date on a form, and the date precedes 30 August 2026. On that Sund...
2:18:31 and a Vial: The Peres Jepchirchir Case Is About the Part of the Marathon No Camera CoversThe sample was taken in Kenya. Before the race. Weeks before anyone reached t...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: A Knee Injection, a Forged Prescription, and the Defence That Destroyed ItselfThere was a half marathon on a road in China in March, and the athlete who wo...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Sample, Four for the PaperLast Thursday the Athletics Integrity Unit published a decision, and the...
The Empty Evidence Base: When 'N/A' Is Honesty and When It Is Institutional Cover in Athletics ReportingMay 2026. The track at Eastern Illinois University. The Illinois High School...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: a forged prescription, a clinic that never existed, and a glucocorticoid every headline called a 'steroid'The urine sample was collected after Ruti Aga won a half marathon in China in...
Ruti Aga: The Six-Year Ban, and the Substance Every Report MisnamedSeptember 10 appears twice in this story. Once as the date Ruti Aga was...
The Price of a Prescription: Ruti Aga, a Six-Year Ban, and East African Road Running's Unseen Medical CrisisThree things did not add up. First, a prescription. Second, a clinic that...
The Empty Ledger: In Indian Athletics, What Was Never Written Down Was Treated as Never HappenedA file opened on my desk in Pune last week. The title slot was blank. The...
Sindh's First Gold Arrived at 32:32.40; the Paperwork Stayed BehindThere was one line in the results list: Mahnoor, Sindh, women's 5,000m race...
The Empty Ledger: When the Results Page Returns NothingThe ticket cost twelve pounds and the last entry in the notebook closed at...
The Sample Was Filled Before Sydney: Peres Jepchirchir Faces EPO Charge and the 2:18:31 Certificate Is Now a Document Under ReviewThe clock at the Sydney Marathon read 2:18:31, and behind Peres Jepchirchir h...
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir provisionally suspended in EPO doping caseOlympic and World Championships marathon gold medallist Peres Jepchirchir's...
Wind Reading, Receipt and the Empty Cell: An Honest Audit of Athletics DataI opened the Federation Cup results sheet three times that evening. The men's...
Sindh's first gold at 32:32.40: what Pakistan's race walk measured, and what went unrecorded32 minutes 32.40 seconds. That was the winning time in the women's 5,000m rac...
The Empty Spreadsheet: Reading an Athletics Data Vacuum as 'No Risk'11:40 p.m., Los Angeles. I opened the file and there was nothing in it. Title...
Sample Before the Win, Notice After It: In the Jepchirchir File, the Dates Are the Real WitnessesThe first line of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) notice is a date: an...
Three Minutes, One Sample and an Untested Page: Reading the Peres Jepchirchir FileThirty August 2026, Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir's marathon finished in two hour...