Athletics
Mahnoor Snares Sindh's First Gold: Women's 5,000m Race Walk Title at 54th National Athletics Championship2026-10-26Karachi: Mahnoor of Sindh won the women's 5,000m race walk title at the 54th...
Sindh's First Gold in 32:32.40: The Part of the Race Walk the Results Sheet Never Prints2026-10-23Karachi. The 54th National Athletics Championship. The women's 5,000m race wa...
The Start List Came Back Blank: In Athletics, N/A Is Not a Clean Record2026-10-23A sheet printed out at the Chennai desk on Wednesday afternoon. The title fie...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Glucocorticoid and the End of a Marathon Career2026-10-23Six years from 10 September. In doping cases we usually read race time, split...
Mahnoor Snares Sindh's First Gold: Women's 5,000m Race Walk Title at 54th National Athletics ChampionshipKarachi: Mahnoor of Sindh won the women's 5,000m race walk title at the 54th...
Three Minutes Clear, Eleven Months of Ledger: The Peres Jepchirchir Sample That Was Taken Before the Finish LineThe clock at the Sydney Marathon finish line stopped at 2:18:31, and there wa...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Pre-Sydney Sample in Kenya Tests Positive for EPOOn 30 August 2026, the Sydney Marathon clock stopped at 2:18:31 and Peres...
The Chain That Broke: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the 2:18:31 Sydney Cannot KeepThe clock that stopped at the Sydney finish line did not lie. 2:18:31 is...
A First Gold at 32:32.40: Sindh's Medal and the Three Empty Columns Around ItThe result that reached my desk from Karachi had exactly one line worth readi...
Nine Columns, Forty-One Cells, Thirty-Eight N/As: Where the Data Chain in Athletics Reporting Actually BreaksNine columns, forty-one cells, and thirty-eight of them carried the same word...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and a Number That Arrived Without Its File32:32.40. That is the number that handed Sindh its first gold at the 54th...
N/A Is Not a Clean Record: A Nine-Dimension Data-Integrity Report on Indian AthleticsNine dimensions, and one entry in every cell: N/A. When the full assessment...
Sindh's First Gold in 32:32.40: The Part of the Race Walk the Results Sheet Never PrintsKarachi. The 54th National Athletics Championship. The women's 5,000m race wa...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Clean Record: Indian Athletics and the Data That Never Got LoggedThe wind column is the dullest column on any results sheet. Last week I opene...
2:18:31 and a Doping Control Form: Peres Jepchirchir's Sydney Title Now Sits Between Two DocumentsThe results sheet from the Sydney Marathon carries the date 30 August 2026....
The Start List Came Back Blank: In Athletics, N/A Is Not a Clean RecordA sheet printed out at the Chennai desk on Wednesday afternoon. The title fie...
Blank Cell, Loaded Claim: What 'N/A' Really Means in Athletics ReportingThere are nine columns on the sheet lying on my desk in Kolkata. Title blank....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Glucocorticoid and the End of a Marathon CareerSix years from 10 September. In doping cases we usually read race time, split...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Drug and the Medical Governance Gap in East African Road RacingIn March, an Ethiopian woman won a half marathon in China. I went looking for...
Three Minutes Clear, Eleven Months of Ledger: The Peres Jepchirchir Sample That Was Taken Before the Finish LineThe clock at the Sydney Marathon finish line stopped at 2:18:31, and there wa...
Peres Jepchirchir Provisionally Suspended: Pre-Sydney Sample in Kenya Tests Positive for EPOOn 30 August 2026, the Sydney Marathon clock stopped at 2:18:31 and Peres...
The Chain That Broke: Peres Jepchirchir's EPO Case and the 2:18:31 Sydney Cannot KeepThe clock that stopped at the Sydney finish line did not lie. 2:18:31 is...
A First Gold at 32:32.40: Sindh's Medal and the Three Empty Columns Around ItThe result that reached my desk from Karachi had exactly one line worth readi...
Nine Columns, Forty-One Cells, Thirty-Eight N/As: Where the Data Chain in Athletics Reporting Actually BreaksNine columns, forty-one cells, and thirty-eight of them carried the same word...
32:32.40 — Sindh's First Gold, and a Number That Arrived Without Its File32:32.40. That is the number that handed Sindh its first gold at the 54th...
N/A Is Not a Clean Record: A Nine-Dimension Data-Integrity Report on Indian AthleticsNine dimensions, and one entry in every cell: N/A. When the full assessment...
Sindh's First Gold in 32:32.40: The Part of the Race Walk the Results Sheet Never PrintsKarachi. The 54th National Athletics Championship. The women's 5,000m race wa...
An Empty Cell Is Not a Clean Record: Indian Athletics and the Data That Never Got LoggedThe wind column is the dullest column on any results sheet. Last week I opene...
2:18:31 and a Doping Control Form: Peres Jepchirchir's Sydney Title Now Sits Between Two DocumentsThe results sheet from the Sydney Marathon carries the date 30 August 2026....
The Start List Came Back Blank: In Athletics, N/A Is Not a Clean RecordA sheet printed out at the Chennai desk on Wednesday afternoon. The title fie...
Blank Cell, Loaded Claim: What 'N/A' Really Means in Athletics ReportingThere are nine columns on the sheet lying on my desk in Kolkata. Title blank....
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Glucocorticoid and the End of a Marathon CareerSix years from 10 September. In doping cases we usually read race time, split...
Ruti Aga's Six-Year Ban: A Forged Prescription, a Misclassified Drug and the Medical Governance Gap in East African Road RacingIn March, an Ethiopian woman won a half marathon in China. I went looking for...