Athletics
The Three-Minute Lead in Sydney, and a Test Tube in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir Suspended for EPO
An Empty Split Sheet Is Not a Clean Record: In Indian Athletics, the Dangerous Number Is the One Nobody Entered
Ruti Aga: A Forged Prescription, a Six-Year Ban, and the Drug Class Almost Every Report Got Wrong
The Empty Ledger: Indian Athletics' Real Crisis Is the Numbers Nobody Ever Wrote Down
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: The Missing Page in Jepchirchir's File
AthleticsThe Three-Minute Lead in Sydney, and a Test Tube in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir Suspended for EPOPeres Jepchirchir, the Olympic and World Championships marathon gold medallis...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: The Missing Page in Jepchirchir's FileSydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample From Kenya: The Missing Page in Jepchirchir's...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir's EPO case: the 2:18:31 margin and the arithmetic of a testing windowThe official results sheet from the Sydney Marathon of 30 August 2026 carries...
AthleticsThe Blank Column: The Count of Indian Women's Athletics That Was Never RecordedLast month, in my room in Bengaluru, I added a fourteenth column to the ledge...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Substance, Four for the Forged PrescriptionOn 10 September, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) statement carried a numbe...
AthleticsAn Empty Split Sheet Is Not a Clean Record: In Indian Athletics, the Dangerous Number Is the One Nobody EnteredIn the spring of 2026, the Illinois high school track season ended on a blank...
AthleticsMahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and a Mark With an Incomplete Paper TrailThe results sheet from Karachi lands on my Miami desk in the morning. Pakista...
AthleticsRuti Aga: A Forged Prescription, a Six-Year Ban, and the Drug Class Almost Every Report Got WrongRuti Aga: A Forged Prescription, a Six-Year Ban, and the Drug Class Almost...
AthleticsMahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold and a Half-Filled File32 minutes, 32.40 seconds. That is the number on which Sindh's first gold at...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Knee Injection, a Forged Prescription, and the Error That Ended a CareerThe clinic had a name. The doctor had a name. The prescription carried a drug...
AthleticsThe Empty Ledger: Indian Athletics' Real Crisis Is the Numbers Nobody Ever Wrote DownIt was nearly one in the morning. I was alone on the Pune rooftop, the chai h...
Athletics32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Number That Raises More Questions Than the MedalKarachi, Thursday evening. Mahnoor completed the 5,000m race walk and put...
Athletics32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and a Mark Whose Start List Was Never PrintedOn a Thursday evening in Karachi the women's 5,000m race walk was decided and...
AthleticsA Forged Prescription, A Real Knee: The Six-Year Ledger of Ruti AgaA Forged Prescription, A Real Knee: The Six-Year Ledger of Ruti Aga The loude...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Substance, Four for the Forged PrescriptionA prescription. A family member who calls himself a doctor. An "old...
Athletics32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Ledger the Report Never KeptThe inauguration in Karachi was at five in the evening, and the same evening...
AthleticsZero Names, Zero Marks: What an Empty Athletics Report Actually Tells UsNine sections. Six risk categories. Zero information points. An athletics...
AthleticsIndia's Youth Athletics Records: Where the Score Sheet Is Missing, the Mark Is Only a ClaimThere is a scanned score sheet from 2026 in my folder. On the paper, in hand,...
AthleticsThe Empty Cell and the Full Stadium: India's Athletics Record That Was Never Written DownI froze the frame, and the story changed. Only this time there was nobody...
AthleticsThe Blank Column on the Result Sheet: Indian Athletics Isn't Short of Numbers, It's Short of WitnessesIn July 2026, in the mixed zone at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, I was...