Athletics
A Forged Prescription Ended a Career: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Truth Behind a Tokyo Marathon Champion
The Evidence Was the Prescription, Not the Drug: Ruti Aga and the New Frontier of Anti-Doping Enforcement
Empty Screen, Empty Start List: Where the Athletics Data Chain Breaks
Sindh's First Gold, and the Stopwatch That Tells More Truth Than the Medal Table
Empty Lane, Missing Name: Indian Athletics' Real Transfer Window Runs Through Filing Cabinets
The Sentence Was Written on the Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Clinic That Never Existed
AthleticsEmpty Screen, Empty Start List: Where the Athletics Data Chain BreaksAt 1:07 a.m. in a Doha flat, a start list is open on a laptop screen, and it ...
AthleticsSindh's First Gold, and the Stopwatch That Tells More Truth Than the Medal TableForty years of reading result sheets teaches you one thing: the story is neve...
AthleticsA Forged Prescription Ended a Career: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Truth Behind a Tokyo Marathon ChampionThe Numbers Behind a Fall: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Forgery That Ended...
AthleticsEmpty Lane, Missing Name: Indian Athletics' Real Transfer Window Runs Through Filing CabinetsLast week, in Ahmedabad, a departmental sports office intake register lay ope...
AthleticsThe Sentence Was Written on the Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Clinic That Never ExistedThe document arrives first; the medal comes later. In Ruti Aga's case, the...
AthleticsThe Empty Sheet, the Full Damage: In Sports Data, Never Read 'N/A' as a Clean RecordThe three-a.m. shift leaves a habit behind: the sheet that will look clean at...
AthleticsThe Evidence Was the Prescription, Not the Drug: Ruti Aga and the New Frontier of Anti-Doping EnforcementTwo years, plus four years, equals six. Everything readable in the Ruti Aga...
Athletics2:18:31 and an EPO Sample: The Kenyan Marathon System Behind Sydney's WinThe Sydney Marathon route climbs over the Harbour Bridge. On the morning of 3...
Athletics32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Arithmetic the Medal Ceremony Leaves Out32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Arithmetic the Medal Ceremony Leaves Ou...
AthleticsThe N/A Report: When a Nine-Dimension Athletics Audit Came Back EmptyThe file opened at two in the morning. Nine tabs — event and performance,...
AthleticsThe Sample Before 2:18:31: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO, and What Sydney's Newest Major Just LearnedSydney Marathon, 30 August 2026. Forty kilometres in, Peres Jepchirchir is...
AthleticsN/A Is Not Zero: The Audit of an Empty Athletics RecordOn Wednesday afternoon in the Liverpool office I put a printout face down, th...
Athletics2:18:31 and a Three-Minute Gap: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Charge and the New Economics of the Marathon MajorsThe timer at the Sydney Marathon finish read 2:18:31. A 33-year-old Kenyan,...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and an AIU Sample: In the Peres Jepchirchir Case, the Stopwatch Is Not a WitnessOn 30 August 2026, the first line of the Sydney Marathon women's result sheet...
AthleticsSindh's First Gold and the Arithmetic of 32:32.40: Auditing the Women's 5,000m Race Walk at Pakistan's 54th National Athletics ChampionshipThe name went up on the press-room board first — Mahnoor — and then the numbe...