Athletics
EPO Positive Sample: Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension and the Question Hanging Over Sydney
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the case was never about methylprednisolone, it was about a forged prescription
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Pre-Sydney Sample in Kenya Tests Positive for EPO
The 32:32.40 Audit: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh, and the Blank Where Second Place Should Be
The Price of an Empty Column: An Audit of Indian Athletics' Record Book
2:18:31 in Brackets: Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Arithmetic of the Seventh Major
Sydney's Win, Kenya's Sample: In Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Gap in TimeNear seven in the morning, above the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the commentary bo...
Zero Information Points: When the Athletics Beat Loses Its Own RecordLast week I opened a file while preparing for a commentary stint, and the fil...
EPO Positive Sample: Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension and the Question Hanging Over SydneyThe clock at the Sydney finish read 2:18:31, and Irene Chepet Cheptai, second...
The Sample Came Before the Race: In the Jepchirchir Case, the Calendar Will Decide, Not the LabWhen Peres Jepchirchir crossed the line in Sydney, the clock read 2:18:31 and...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the case was never about methylprednisolone, it was about a forged prescriptionThe prescription carried the stamp of a clinic that did not exist. The person...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Pre-Sydney Sample in Kenya Tests Positive for EPOThe results sheet for the Sydney Marathon records 2:18:31 against the date 30...
Sydney's Crown, EPO's Needle, and a Name the World Hasn't Learned to Say RightThree Minutes Fifty-One Seconds, and a Sample That Had Already Been Taken 30...
Mahnoor's Gold and the Empty Column Behind 32:32.40: What the Karachi Results Sheet Left OutMy habit, built over too many wire shifts, is to read a results sheet for the...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First National Gold and the Incomplete Arithmetic of Race WalkingThe inauguration wrapped at five on Thursday evening, the floodlights came on...
The 32:32.40 Ledger: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh and the Three Numbers Missing From the ReportThe clock stopped at 32:32.40. In a results sheet that is a winning time —...
The 32:32.40 Audit: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh, and the Blank Where Second Place Should BeThe results sheet carried one number — 32:32.40. Beside it, Mahnoor's name,...
The Price of an Empty Column: An Audit of Indian Athletics' Record BookNew Delhi, May 2026. An official result sheet from an AFI national ranking me...
Jepchirchir's EPO Sample: The Question Raised Before Sydney's 2:18:31, and a File That Is Not ClosedThe clock on the Sydney Marathon finish line stopped on the morning of 30...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and a Clinic That Never ExistedRuti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and a Clinic That Never Existed...
Sindh's First Gold in 32:32.40 — but Race Walking's Most Important Number Is MissingFive thousand metres, more than twelve laps of the track. Mahnoor crosses the...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the EPO Tube: Jepchirchir's Suspension Swapped the Measuring DeviceThe clock in Sydney logged 2 hours 18 minutes 31 seconds for 42.195 kilometre...
Zero Information Points: When the Athletics Beat Loses Its Own RecordLast week I opened a file while preparing for a commentary stint, and the fil...
EPO Positive Sample: Peres Jepchirchir's Provisional Suspension and the Question Hanging Over SydneyThe clock at the Sydney finish read 2:18:31, and Irene Chepet Cheptai, second...
The Sample Came Before the Race: In the Jepchirchir Case, the Calendar Will Decide, Not the LabWhen Peres Jepchirchir crossed the line in Sydney, the clock read 2:18:31 and...
Ruti Aga's six-year ban: the case was never about methylprednisolone, it was about a forged prescriptionThe prescription carried the stamp of a clinic that did not exist. The person...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Pre-Sydney Sample in Kenya Tests Positive for EPOThe results sheet for the Sydney Marathon records 2:18:31 against the date 30...
Sydney's Crown, EPO's Needle, and a Name the World Hasn't Learned to Say RightThree Minutes Fifty-One Seconds, and a Sample That Had Already Been Taken 30...
Mahnoor's Gold and the Empty Column Behind 32:32.40: What the Karachi Results Sheet Left OutMy habit, built over too many wire shifts, is to read a results sheet for the...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First National Gold and the Incomplete Arithmetic of Race WalkingThe inauguration wrapped at five on Thursday evening, the floodlights came on...
The 32:32.40 Ledger: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh and the Three Numbers Missing From the ReportThe clock stopped at 32:32.40. In a results sheet that is a winning time —...
The 32:32.40 Audit: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh, and the Blank Where Second Place Should BeThe results sheet carried one number — 32:32.40. Beside it, Mahnoor's name,...
The Price of an Empty Column: An Audit of Indian Athletics' Record BookNew Delhi, May 2026. An official result sheet from an AFI national ranking me...
Jepchirchir's EPO Sample: The Question Raised Before Sydney's 2:18:31, and a File That Is Not ClosedThe clock on the Sydney Marathon finish line stopped on the morning of 30...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and a Clinic That Never ExistedRuti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and a Clinic That Never Existed...
Sindh's First Gold in 32:32.40 — but Race Walking's Most Important Number Is MissingFive thousand metres, more than twelve laps of the track. Mahnoor crosses the...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the EPO Tube: Jepchirchir's Suspension Swapped the Measuring DeviceThe clock in Sydney logged 2 hours 18 minutes 31 seconds for 42.195 kilometre...