Athletics
Ruti Aga: The six-year ban came from a prescription no clinic ever wrote, not from the injection
Sindh's First Gold and the Arithmetic of 32:32.40: Pace, Distance and the Gap in Pakistan's Race Walk
Sample Taken Before Sydney Marathon Tests Positive for EPO: Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended, and What the File Does Not Say
Sydney's Win, Nairobi's Sample: The Ledger Test on Peres Jepchirchir
Peres Jepchirchir's Sydney Win and the Kenyan Sample: The Gap Between a Test and a Headline
Sample Taken Before Sydney Marathon Tests Positive for EPO: Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended, and What the File Does Not SayIn this file, the paperwork runs backwards from the race. Peres Jepchirchir w...
Sydney's Win, Nairobi's Sample: The Ledger Test on Peres JepchirchirHook The clock stopped at 2:18:31 on 30 August 2026 in Sydney, and Peres...
Peres Jepchirchir's Sydney Win and the Kenyan Sample: The Gap Between a Test and a HeadlineThe women's race in Sydney was over somewhere past thirty kilometres. On the...
The Truth of the Empty Column: What Never Gets Recorded in Women's AthleticsOn an August evening in 2026 I stood in the London Stadium concourse and aske...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Four Columns That Never Made the Record32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Four Columns That Never Made the Recor...
The Blank Ledger: The Injury Paper Indian Athletics Never WroteA report landed on my desk. Its title was “athletics”. That was all of it....
Ruti Aga: The six-year ban came from a prescription no clinic ever wrote, not from the injectionA half marathon in March. In China. No name in the source, no time, no weathe...
The Sample Came Before the Win: Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO FindingI watched the last ten kilometres of the Sydney Marathon twice. Once live, in...
Ruti Aga and the Prescription That Was Never Written: In a Six-Year Ban, the Paperwork Lost, Not the DrugThe Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) statement released on Thursday contains a...
Sindh's First Gold and the Arithmetic of 32:32.40: Pace, Distance and the Gap in Pakistan's Race WalkThe results sheet carries one line: women's 5,000m race walk, first place,...
Karachi's Long Walk: Mahnoor's 32:32.40, Sindh's First Gold, and the Twelve Minutes Nobody FiledThe evening in Karachi began with a 5pm inauguration ceremony. The timing was...