Athletics
Peres Jepchirchir and the EPO Charge: Sydney's 2:18:31, a Vial Sealed in Kenya, and a Calendar That Outruns Results
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Clock Nobody Announced
The Blank Record: Where 'Not Assessed' Is Not 'Cleared'
Ruti Aga and the Prescription: Six Years, and a Clinic That Never Existed
Peres Jepchirchir and the EPO Charge: Sydney's 2:18:31, a Vial Sealed in Kenya, and a Calendar That Outruns ResultsThe clock at the Sydney Marathon stopped at 2:18:31. On the morning of 30...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and the Clock Nobody AnnouncedThe first number I pulled out of the report wasn't the gold. It was 32:32.40....
The Blank Record: Where 'Not Assessed' Is Not 'Cleared'Nine dimensions came back empty. That was the story. A nine-dimension audit...
Ruti Aga and the Prescription: Six Years, and a Clinic That Never ExistedHook Two plus four equals six. The first readable figure in the Athletics...
Ruti Aga's Six Years: A Glucocorticoid Injection, a Forged Prescription and the Arithmetic of a SanctionSix years is not one number. It is two decisions added together, and that...
Six Years, One Forged Prescription, and the Clinic That Never ExistedEvery doping case begins with an envelope. Inside the envelope sits a sample...
The Incomplete Scorecard: In Athletics, the Conditions Behind a Mark Matter More Than the MarkTwo forty-seven at night. On the laptop screen in that spare room in Hackney,...
Peres Jepchirchir: A 2:18:31 Win in Sydney and a Notebook Between Silence and EPOI keep two notebooks — one for the score, one for the silence after it. When...
The EPO Envelope and the 2:18:31 Crown: Three Questions in the Peres Jepchirchir Case That Outweigh the Sydney ResultThe race in Sydney went off at six in the morning. In Chennai, my kitchen clo...