Athletics
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and the Prescription That Turned Two Into Six
The Gold at 32:32.40: Sindh's First, and a Time the Record Book Will Not Keep
An Empty Column Is Not a Clean Bill: Reading Absence in Athletics Medical Reporting
The Blank Page and the Full Stadium: The Half of Indian Athletics No Camera Ever Filmed
The Sample Was Taken Before the Win: Jepchirchir's EPO Case and Marathon's Incomplete Measurement SystemOn the morning of 30 August 2026 in Sydney, Peres Jepchirchir finished in two...
Sindh's First Gold and 32:32.40 — What the Karachi Clock Said, and What the Report Left OutOn the track in Karachi that evening, the women's 5,000m race walk was being...
The Blank Page as Evidence: How Indian Athletics Reads 'Not Assessed' as 'Safe'Bhubaneswar, July 2026. On the press bench at Kalinga Stadium I had a borrowe...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and the Prescription That Turned Two Into Six10 September. In the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) statement released on...
2:18:31 and a Sample Taken Before It: What a Split Table Can and Cannot Say About Jepchirchir's EPO CaseWhen the clock stopped at 2:18:31 at the Sydney Marathon finish, I was on my...
The Gold at 32:32.40: Sindh's First, and a Time the Record Book Will Not KeepOne line on a results sheet, and no commentary attached to it: 'Women's 5,000...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Splits the Report Never PrintedKarachi, a Thursday evening, and the women's 5,000m race walk at the 54th...
The Blank Ledger: When the Athlete, the Event and the Mark Were All MissingThe chai had gone cold by seven on a Sunday morning on the Pune rooftop, and...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and a Prescription From a Clinic That Never ExistedThe heaviest part of the Athletics Integrity Unit's statement on Thursday was...
Sindh's First Gold and the 32:32.40 Question: Where Did the Women's 20km Go?The clock at the finish read 32:32.40. Mahnoor crossed the line, and Sindh ha...
An Empty Column Is Not a Clean Bill: Reading Absence in Athletics Medical ReportingEleven pages. Twenty-nine tables. And in nearly every box, the same word — N/...
The Blank Page and the Full Stadium: The Half of Indian Athletics No Camera Ever FilmedBhubaneswar, July 2026. I was standing at the Kalinga Stadium gate with a...
Mahnoor's 32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold, and the Four Things the Results Sheet Never SaidThere was a name on the Karachi results sheet, an event, and a time. Women's...
A Sanction Written on a Prescription Pad: Ruti Aga's Six Years and the Clinic That Never ExistedBegin with the paper, because this case travelled through paper, not through ...