Athletics
When the Analysis Returns Empty, That Is the Story: Athletics and the Data Crisis
The Price of a Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six Years and the Unfilmed Medical Economy of Marathon Running
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample Bottle Filled Before It: In the Peres Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Timeline, Not the Tape
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Forged Prescription, the Glucocorticoid, and the End of a Marathon Career
Ruti Aga: The Price of a Forged Prescription Is Six Years — A Marathon Career's Medical-Governance Failure
Red Flag on a Blank Sheet: In Athletics Data, the Most Dangerous Number Is the One Never Recorded
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: The Forged Prescription, the Glucocorticoid, and the End of a Marathon CareerRuti Aga won a half marathon in China in March. The sample she gave after tha...
Ruti Aga: The Price of a Forged Prescription Is Six Years — A Marathon Career's Medical-Governance FailureThe Athletics Integrity Unit statement issued on Thursday should be read for...
When the Analysis Returns Empty, That Is the Story: Athletics and the Data CrisisThe report on my desk this morning had eighty-two fields, and every one of th...
Red Flag on a Blank Sheet: In Athletics Data, the Most Dangerous Number Is the One Never RecordedThe thread started with a number that did not exist. Last week an athletics...
Two Years Plus Four: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban Was Decided by Paperwork, Not PharmacologyTwo plus four equals six. That arithmetic is the first thing that surfaces in...
The Price of a Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six Years and the Unfilmed Medical Economy of Marathon RunningThat March afternoon in China, Ruti Aga won a half marathon. Her name sat at...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, an S9 Glucocorticoid and the Record-Sheet Error at the Centre of the CaseThe date 10 September appears twice in my source-of-truth file. Once as the...
That Evening in Karachi: Mahnoor's 32:32.40 and the Real Price of Sindh's 'First Gold'The inauguration was at five in the evening in Karachi, and that is where thi...
The Empty Table: When an Athletics Story Arrives With Zero Data PointsIt is a quarter past three in the morning in Chicago. The file opens onto the...
Peres Jepchirchir and EPO: The Sample Was Taken Before Sydney, and the Three-Minute Gap Is Still TrueAugust 30, 2026, Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir crosses the line in 2 hours, 18...
The Sample That Matters Was Filled in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO and a Very Short Detection WindowThe sample at the centre of this case was not collected in Sydney. According ...
A Sydney Win and a Sample from Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case Is Also a Story About the Testing CalendarOn 30 August 2026 the clock on the Sydney streets stopped at 2:18:31. Peres...
Jepchirchir and the EPO Positive: Sydney's 2:18:31, a Sample Taken Before the Race, and the Seventh Major's First Big TestOn the last four hundred metres of the Sydney road, only one shadow was...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample Bottle Filled Before It: In the Peres Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Timeline, Not the TapeThe clock above the finish line in Sydney stopped at 2:18:31, and Irene Chepe...
Ruti Aga: The Price of a Forged Prescription Is Six Years — A Marathon Career's Medical-Governance FailureThe Athletics Integrity Unit statement issued on Thursday should be read for...
When the Analysis Returns Empty, That Is the Story: Athletics and the Data CrisisThe report on my desk this morning had eighty-two fields, and every one of th...
Red Flag on a Blank Sheet: In Athletics Data, the Most Dangerous Number Is the One Never RecordedThe thread started with a number that did not exist. Last week an athletics...
Two Years Plus Four: Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban Was Decided by Paperwork, Not PharmacologyTwo plus four equals six. That arithmetic is the first thing that surfaces in...
The Price of a Prescription: Ruti Aga's Six Years and the Unfilmed Medical Economy of Marathon RunningThat March afternoon in China, Ruti Aga won a half marathon. Her name sat at...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, an S9 Glucocorticoid and the Record-Sheet Error at the Centre of the CaseThe date 10 September appears twice in my source-of-truth file. Once as the...
That Evening in Karachi: Mahnoor's 32:32.40 and the Real Price of Sindh's 'First Gold'The inauguration was at five in the evening in Karachi, and that is where thi...
The Empty Table: When an Athletics Story Arrives With Zero Data PointsIt is a quarter past three in the morning in Chicago. The file opens onto the...
Peres Jepchirchir and EPO: The Sample Was Taken Before Sydney, and the Three-Minute Gap Is Still TrueAugust 30, 2026, Sydney. Peres Jepchirchir crosses the line in 2 hours, 18...
The Sample That Matters Was Filled in Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO and a Very Short Detection WindowThe sample at the centre of this case was not collected in Sydney. According ...
A Sydney Win and a Sample from Kenya: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case Is Also a Story About the Testing CalendarOn 30 August 2026 the clock on the Sydney streets stopped at 2:18:31. Peres...
Jepchirchir and the EPO Positive: Sydney's 2:18:31, a Sample Taken Before the Race, and the Seventh Major's First Big TestOn the last four hundred metres of the Sydney road, only one shadow was...
Sydney's 2:18:31 and the Sample Bottle Filled Before It: In the Peres Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Timeline, Not the TapeThe clock above the finish line in Sydney stopped at 2:18:31, and Irene Chepe...