Athletics
An Empty Ledger Is Also Testimony: In Athletics, What Was Never Recorded Is the Real Question
A Sample Taken Before the Sydney Win: Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO Positive
Auditing the Empty Results Sheet: The Six Checks a Javelin Mark Must Survive
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO suspension: the sample came before Sydney, but the date is on no page
The Sample Was Not Taken in Sydney: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Arithmetic of the Testing Calendar
An Empty Ledger Is Also Testimony: In Athletics, What Was Never Recorded Is the Real QuestionA sheet arrived on my desk on Monday morning. It had nine boxes. Eight of the...
A Sample Taken Before the Sydney Win: Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended After EPO PositiveOn the morning of 30 August 2026 in Sydney, the board read 2:18:31 and the ne...
Peres Jepchirchir's EPO suspension: the sample came before Sydney, but the date is on no page30 August 2026, Sydney. The clock read 2:18:31. Peres Jepchirchir won by more...
The Sample Was Not Taken in Sydney: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the Arithmetic of the Testing CalendarThe sample was not taken in Sydney. The sample that stopped Peres Jepchirchir...
The Empty Column: The Indian Athletics File That Never Recorded the WomanThere were nine boxes on the sheet. One, performance. Two, athlete condition....
Ruti Aga: Six Years, and the Prescription No Clinic Ever WroteTwo years for the substance. Four years for the paper. Reading the Athletics...
The Ledger of Zero: In Indian Athletics, the Blank Column Is the Most Honest NumberA file landed on my desk on Monday morning with nine columns in it. All nine...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and the Medical Governance Nobody AuditedThe Athletics Integrity Unit's statement on Thursday put the number six at th...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold and the Lap Splits Nobody Wrote DownAt five in the evening on Thursday the inauguration ended, the women's 5,000m...
Ruti Aga: Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and the Classification Nobody CorrectedThe mixed zone after the women's 400m heats at London 2026 was almost empty. ...
Auditing the Empty Results Sheet: The Six Checks a Javelin Mark Must SurviveAt 6:40 a.m. in Los Angeles I opened the file and the sheet was empty. No...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Drug, Four for a Prescription No Clinic Ever WroteSeptember 10 appears twice in this file. Once as the date Ruti Aga was...