Athletics
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: A Knee Injection, a Forged Prescription and the End of a Marathon Career
The Ledger of Conditions: The Account of Indian Women's Athletics That No Medal Table Ever Shows
Ruti Aga's Six Years: One Glucocorticoid, One Forged Prescription, and the Clinic That Never Existed
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Time Nobody Recorded
2:18:31 and a Positive Sample: Sydney's Results Sheet Still Carries Peres Jepchirchir's Name
2:18:31 and a Positive Sample: Sydney's Results Sheet Still Carries Peres Jepchirchir's Name30 August 2026, Sydney. A few minutes after the finish, the provisional resul...
The Sydney Medal and the Kenya Sample: The Missing Date in Peres Jepchirchir's FileThe Sydney finish-line camera recorded a moment on the night of 30 August 202...
Jepchirchir's EPO Case: Sydney's 2:18:31 Is Now a QuestionThree minutes and change. 30 August 2026, Sydney Marathon, women's elite race...
Jepchirchir's EPO case: a sample taken before the tape, and a file that splits cannot solve30 August 2026, Sydney. The first line of the results sheet was clean —...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: A Forged Prescription, a Clinic That Never Existed, and the Technical Error That Shut Her Only DefenceThe prescription was written on the letterhead of a clinic that does not exis...
Sydney's Three-Minute Win, and the Sample Collected in KenyaThe clock at the Sydney Marathon stopped at 2:18:31 on the morning of 30 Augu...
The Blank Cell on the Results Sheet: In Indian Athletics, N/A Is Not a Clean ChitLast week a file came back to my desk. It had nine fields — athlete name,...
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Ban: A Knee Injection, a Forged Prescription and the End of a Marathon CareerThe statement that landed in my inbox on Thursday afternoon had no stadium in...
The Column Left Blank: The Undocumented Ledger of Indian Women's AthleticsOn the evening of 11 October 2026, the discus final was running at Jawaharlal...
The Ledger of Conditions: The Account of Indian Women's Athletics That No Medal Table Ever ShowsAugust 2026, Athens. The mixed zone at the Olympic stadium was packed that...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: One Glucocorticoid, One Forged Prescription, and the Clinic That Never ExistedA clinic was named. An address was given. And the verification found that the...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Time Nobody RecordedThirty-two minutes, thirty-two seconds and forty hundredths. That is the time...
