Athletics
EPO Stain: Jepchirchir's Sample Positive Before Sydney Marathon, Suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, Not the Substance, Wrote Four of Those Years
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and a Prescription No Clinic Ever Wrote
Sydney's 2:18:31 and a Vial Filled in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Suspension Opens the Two Economies of Women's Marathon Running
Sydney's 2:18:31 and a Vial Filled in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Suspension Opens the Two Economies of Women's Marathon RunningSydney, 30 August 2026. The wind came off the water and hit the last two...
EPO Stain: Jepchirchir's Sample Positive Before Sydney Marathon, Suspended by Athletics Integrity UnitAugust 30, 2026, Sydney. The time that flashed on the screen along the marath...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and a Sample from Kenya: The Peres Jepchirchir File Is Not ClosedThe sample was taken in Kenya, before 30 August 2026 — before the morning Per...
Peres Jepchirchir and Sydney's 2:18:31: The Results Sheet Was Never the Whole StoryThe finishing tape in Sydney on 30 August 2026 told half a story. Peres...
The Timestamp Before 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Economics of Marathon TestingSydney Marathon's start list carried the date 30 August 2026. By that afterno...
The Sample Before Sydney: Jepchirchir, EPO and the Marathon LedgerOn the evening of 30 August 2026 in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir crossed the lin...
The Sydney Crown and the Sample Taken Before It: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Charge, and the Blank Page for the Runner Three Minutes BehindOn the morning of 30 August 2026 in Sydney, the board read 2:18:31 as Peres...
Sindh's First Gold, 32:32.40, and the Scoresheet That Never Shows the Judges' CardsA Thursday evening at the 54th National Athletics Championship, women's 5,000...
32:32.40 and Four Missing Numbers: Mahnoor's Gold in Karachi, and a Medal With No Card CountKarachi. Women's 5,000m race walk. Gold to Sindh, to Mahnoor. Time: 32:32.40....
Ruti Aga: A Real Drug, a Forged Prescription, and Six Years of ArithmeticTwo plus four equals six. The sanction against Ruti Aga rests on that piece o...
Empty Columns, a Closed Door: The Evidence That Never Arrived in an Athletics AuditThat night in Ahmedabad two files sat open on my screen. On the left, the...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, Not the Substance, Wrote Four of Those YearsSix years. Two years, plus four. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) statement...
The 32:32.40 Ledger: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh, and a Mark I Cannot Yet RebuildOn a Thursday evening sometime after August 2026, a line appeared in the...
The Blank Column: Indian Athletics' Real Story Is in the Missing File, Not the MarkA file came back to my desk earlier this month. Blank where the title should...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and a Prescription No Clinic Ever WroteThe heaviest fact in the Ruti Aga case is not the six-year ban. It is that th...
The Price of a Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six Years and the Clinic That Never ExistedA Thursday statement from the Athletics Integrity Unit ran to a few hundred...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: The Ban Was for the Paper, Not the InjectionA March morning, a half marathon in China, and the first chest across the lin...