Athletics
Sample Taken Before Sydney Win: Peres Jepchirchir Faces EPO Charge as Athletics Integrity Unit Provisionally Suspends Olympic and World Marathon Champion
Three Minutes Ahead, One Sample Behind: Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Seventh Major's Reckoning
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Clinic on the Prescription Did Not Exist
32:32.40 and the Empty Columns: What Sindh's First Gold Actually Measures
Nine Columns, Nine Blanks: The Athletics File That Came Back Without a Single Number
Nine Columns, Nine Blanks: The Athletics File That Came Back Without a Single NumberIn August 2026 I was the only woman on the overnight sports desk of a Singapo...
Sample Taken Before Sydney Win: Peres Jepchirchir Faces EPO Charge as Athletics Integrity Unit Provisionally Suspends Olympic and World Marathon ChampionWhen I opened the Sydney Marathon results sheet, my eye went first to the...
Three Minutes Ahead, One Sample Behind: Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Seventh Major's ReckoningThe Sydney Marathon tape is dated 30 August 2026. Peres Jepchirchir comes off...
The Sample Filled Before Sydney: In the Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is Timing30 August 2026, Sydney. The clock stopped at 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir beat...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Injection Was Legal, the Forged Prescription Was NotThe clinic on the prescription never existed. She won a half marathon in Chin...
Ruti Aga: The Six-Year Ban Came From a Forged Prescription, Not the Drug — the Arithmetic of 2 + 4 = 6A May afternoon in 2026 is still lodged in me: a 400m hurdles heat at the...
Sydney's Title, Kenya's Sample: Peres Jepchirchir and EPO's Narrow WindowThirty August, 2026, the streets of Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir crosses the lin...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Blank Line on the Results Sheet Nobody Asked AboutLet me start where the room went quiet. The results sheet from the 54th...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample Filled First: The Page in Peres Jepchirchir's FileOn the evening of 30 August 2026 in Sydney, the results sheet carried one nam...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Clinic on the Prescription Did Not ExistThe number to read first in the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement on...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and a Time That Reaches No International StandardThe results sheet had three columns: name, unit, time. Mahnoor. Sindh....
One Empty Column, One Incomplete Record: Why Missing Athletics Data Is Not a Clean ChitLast week a report landed on my desk with the headline field blank, the sourc...
32:32.40 and the Empty Columns: What Sindh's First Gold Actually MeasuresThe results sheet had exactly one column filled: Mahnoor, Sindh, women's 5,00...
The Testimony of an Empty File: In Women's Athletics, the Most Important Story Is the One Nobody FiledThe file on my desk had nine fields. Eight were blank. No athlete's name, no...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, an Empty Clinic and the Arithmetic of 2+4The thing that stung in the first paragraph of the press release was not the...
The Empty Column: When an Athletics Sheet Has No Name, No Mark and No VenueOn Thursday afternoon in Delhi a nine-section analysis sheet sat on my desk....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Prescription That Named a Clinic That Never ExistedThere was a prescription. A clinic's name at the top, a doctor's name below i...