Athletics
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the Prescription From a Clinic That Never Existed
Empty Columns, Heavy Questions: The Politics of the Unmade Record in Indian Athletics
The EPO Paper Ledger: Peres Jepchirchir's Suspension, the Sydney Win and the Marathon Calendar's Reckoning
A Three-Minute Win in Sydney, and a Sample Drawn in Kenya
The EPO Paper Ledger: Peres Jepchirchir's Suspension, the Sydney Win and the Marathon Calendar's ReckoningThe finish tape in Sydney read 2:18:31, and Peres Jepchirchir put more than...
A Three-Minute Win in Sydney, and a Sample Drawn in KenyaSydney, 30 August 2026. The part of the afternoon when the wind comes off the...
The Blank Column: Where Indian Athletics Loses Its Records at the Filing CabinetThe results sheet had the distance. The wind column was blank. That one empty...
Where the Wind Column Stays Blank: The Empty Field Inside Indian Athletics' Record BooksThere is a folder on my laptop called "Results." It holds roughly four hundre...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: Two Years for the Drug, Four for the Prescription From a Clinic That Never ExistedTwo numbers sit apart in the Athletics Integrity Unit statement, both anchore...
Auditing the Empty Sheet: The Cost of Reading N/A as a Number in Athletics ReportingThe file opened with eleven fields, and all eleven carried the same answer:...
32:32.40: Sindh's First Gold and a Result Sheet Missing Its Lap Splits32:32.40. That is the number that came out of the women's 5,000m race walk at...
Empty Columns, Heavy Questions: The Politics of the Unmade Record in Indian AthleticsA file was placed on my desk last week. Nine sections, forty-two tables, and ...