Athletics
Ciara Mageean: From Camogie Stick to the 1500m Track, Portaferry to European Gold in Rome
Arshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start, but the Question Is Not Just About Medals: Coach Bukhari
Ruti Aga and the Six-Year Arithmetic: One Glucocorticoid, One Forged Prescription, and a Defence That Destroyed Itself
Counting Before the Medal Table: The Real Scoreboard of Indian Women's Athletics
Ciara Mageean: The Testimony of 2:31.06, and a Middle-Distance Career Split by Injuries
Six-Year Ban for Ruti Aga: A Forged Prescription Signed by a Family Member Ends a Marathon Career
AthleticsCiara Mageean: From Camogie Stick to the 1500m Track, Portaferry to European Gold in RomeStarting from a Harbour Town Portaferry, in County Down, is not an athletics...
AthleticsCiara Mageean: The Testimony of 2:31.06, and a Middle-Distance Career Split by InjuriesThe time was 6.30am on a Sunday. It is not a split, not a finishing time. It ...
AthleticsArshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start, but the Question Is Not Just About Medals: Coach BukhariPakistan’s Olympic champion javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem needs a fresh start...
AthleticsSix-Year Ban for Ruti Aga: A Forged Prescription Signed by a Family Member Ends a Marathon CareerThe AIU Decision: How Two Years Became Six The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)...
AthleticsRuti Aga and the Six-Year Arithmetic: One Glucocorticoid, One Forged Prescription, and a Defence That Destroyed ItselfSix years. The Athletics Integrity Unit's statement writes it in two...
AthleticsArshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start, but Questions Remain Between the Coach’s Advice and the Media ReportLAHORE: A new debate has started around Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Morning in Kenya: Jepchirchir's EPO Case Began Before the Race We Called a WinSydney, 30 August 2026. For the last six kilometres the camera had nothing to...
AthleticsCounting Before the Medal Table: The Real Scoreboard of Indian Women's AthleticsBhubaneswar, July 2026. The press box at Kalinga Stadium, final day of the 22...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir provisionally suspended: the EPO sample was taken before she won SydneySydney, 30 August 2026. The clock read 2:18:31 and Peres Jepchirchir was more...
AthleticsRuti Aga and the six-year ban: how one forged prescription erased a defence that could have workedThe prescription carried methylprednisolone. The patient was Ruti Aga, the...
AthleticsThe Record of the Blank Column: What Indian Women's Athletics Never LoggedPUNE — Last week an audit sheet landed on my desk. Nine columns: athlete,...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Drug, and the Knee Nobody ReportedThere was a clinic name on the paper, an address, a stamp, and a doctor's...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Sample Sealed in Kenya: The Jepchirchir File Where the Verdict Is Still UnwrittenOn the evening of the Sydney Marathon I had two sheets of paper in front of m...
AthleticsSix Years, and a Drug the Headlines Misnamed: What the Ruti Aga Case Is Actually Built OnLet me start where the room went quiet. A half marathon in China, in March. T...
AthleticsThe Sheet Came Back Blank: In Indian Athletics, What Isn't Filed Never HappenedA sheet with ten columns lay in front of me. Column one, athlete's name:...
AthleticsThe Sample Arrived Before the Medal: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO, and the Ledger of Sydney's 2:18:31One Date, Two Columns August 30, 2026. Sydney Marathon. Peres Jepchirchir, 33...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Bottle Filled in Kenya: In the Peres Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Testing CalendarThe live feed of the Sydney Marathon came on in my Ahmedabad room at about ha...
AthleticsCiara Mageean: The Testimony of 2:31.06, and a Middle-Distance Career Split by InjuriesThe time was 6.30am on a Sunday. It is not a split, not a finishing time. It ...
AthleticsArshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start, but the Question Is Not Just About Medals: Coach BukhariPakistan’s Olympic champion javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem needs a fresh start...
AthleticsSix-Year Ban for Ruti Aga: A Forged Prescription Signed by a Family Member Ends a Marathon CareerThe AIU Decision: How Two Years Became Six The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)...
AthleticsRuti Aga and the Six-Year Arithmetic: One Glucocorticoid, One Forged Prescription, and a Defence That Destroyed ItselfSix years. The Athletics Integrity Unit's statement writes it in two...
AthleticsArshad Nadeem Needs a Fresh Start, but Questions Remain Between the Coach’s Advice and the Media ReportLAHORE: A new debate has started around Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Morning in Kenya: Jepchirchir's EPO Case Began Before the Race We Called a WinSydney, 30 August 2026. For the last six kilometres the camera had nothing to...
AthleticsCounting Before the Medal Table: The Real Scoreboard of Indian Women's AthleticsBhubaneswar, July 2026. The press box at Kalinga Stadium, final day of the 22...
AthleticsPeres Jepchirchir provisionally suspended: the EPO sample was taken before she won SydneySydney, 30 August 2026. The clock read 2:18:31 and Peres Jepchirchir was more...
AthleticsRuti Aga and the six-year ban: how one forged prescription erased a defence that could have workedThe prescription carried methylprednisolone. The patient was Ruti Aga, the...
AthleticsThe Record of the Blank Column: What Indian Women's Athletics Never LoggedPUNE — Last week an audit sheet landed on my desk. Nine columns: athlete,...
AthleticsRuti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Drug, and the Knee Nobody ReportedThere was a clinic name on the paper, an address, a stamp, and a doctor's...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Sample Sealed in Kenya: The Jepchirchir File Where the Verdict Is Still UnwrittenOn the evening of the Sydney Marathon I had two sheets of paper in front of m...
AthleticsSix Years, and a Drug the Headlines Misnamed: What the Ruti Aga Case Is Actually Built OnLet me start where the room went quiet. A half marathon in China, in March. T...
AthleticsThe Sheet Came Back Blank: In Indian Athletics, What Isn't Filed Never HappenedA sheet with ten columns lay in front of me. Column one, athlete's name:...
AthleticsThe Sample Arrived Before the Medal: Peres Jepchirchir, EPO, and the Ledger of Sydney's 2:18:31One Date, Two Columns August 30, 2026. Sydney Marathon. Peres Jepchirchir, 33...
AthleticsSydney's 2:18:31 and a Bottle Filled in Kenya: In the Peres Jepchirchir EPO Case, the Real Question Is the Testing CalendarThe live feed of the Sydney Marathon came on in my Ahmedabad room at about ha...