Athletics
Ruti Aga Banned for Six Years: Two Years for the Substance, Four for the PaperworkThe arithmetic of a six-year ban does not open like a scandal. It opens like ...
The Truth Inside 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold and a Ledger With a Clean Column but Missing Rows32:32.40. That is the number with which Mahnoor of Sindh won the women's 5,00...
Peres Jepchirchir and the EPO Positive: A Sample Taken in Kenya, a Sydney Title in Doubt, and a Case That Will Be Decided on PaperI watched the last ten kilometres of the Sydney Marathon twice. The first tim...
Jepchirchir's EPO Case: The Sample Taken Before Sydney, and the Marathon Economy the Cameras Never ShowOn 30 August 2026, in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir ran 2 hours 18 minutes 31...
Sydney's Flat Rhythm, Kenya's Sealed Tube: In the Jepchirchir Case, We Are Auditing the Wrong ThingSydney, 30 August 2026. There was no drama in the last four kilometres on the...
Auditing the Blank Sheet: Why 'N/A' Is the Most Expensive Number in AthleticsMonday morning, the first-floor office off Smithdown Road, Liverpool, and I...
Mahnoor's Sindh Gold and 32:32.40: A Data Audit of Pakistan's 54th National Athletics ChampionshipOne sentence carried Mahnoor's name in The Express Tribune's report — Sindh's...
32:32.40: Mahnoor's First Gold for Sindh and the Empty Columns of a 5,000m Race WalkThe results sheet came out of Karachi on a Thursday evening, and against the...
The Results Sheet That Came Back Blank: Indian Athletics' Archive ProblemLast week a sheet came back to my desk. Nine columns, one word in each: N/A....
Two Years for the Sample, Four for the Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban and the Medical File That Never ExistedThe tenth of September, twice The Athletics Integrity Unit released its...
Sindh's first gold in 32:32.40: a data audit of Pakistan's 5,000m race walkThe results board went up in the Karachi press room and half the room stopped...
Karachi's 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Five Kilometres Nobody MeasuredThe results sheet carried one number — 32:32.40. That was the winning time in...
