Having just watched the Panorama programme about Farah and it really does not look good for Farah at all. It certainly looks to me like he has been economic with the truth at best and lied at worst. To my mind he has certainly at very least broken "the spirit of the sport" and has quite possibly broken many doping rules. Not mentioned is his missing of drug tests due to not hearing the door bell being rung!
I wonder when his medals will be stripped and his knighthood removed?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/51591701
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https://russellrunner.com/farah-and-salazar-the-definitive-guide/
I wonder if the way lottery funding is given out has driven these issues with UKA and British Cycling. To the rest of the world, UK sport doesn't look very clean.
Perhaps Farah will change his surname a la Lizzie Deignam, nee Armistead, did in the hope of deflecting culpability.
Mo Quorn could be an option (it'd keep his sponsors happy). Mo Money could also be an all encompassing moniker.
For me I can't get past the fact that Farah blatantly lied, then changed his statement saying he'd forgotten. What sort of life do you lead that you forget sitting in a hotel room, receiving 4 injections in 2 hours of unrecorded levels of substances that had been collected from the house of a contact of Salazar's.
So when he says he's clean and never taken drugs is that true or is it that he can't remember....
How will Farah react to the stigma? Will he defend his Olympic 10,000 title this Summer?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/athletics/olympic-hero-mo-farah-breaks-silence-on-cheat-accusations-that-made-him-depressed/ar-BB10zuEV?ocid=spartanntp
"It has made me question if I'm a bad person. Is it against me? Is it because of my colour? It makes you question everything and that's annoying and damaging."
Here we go now with the race card - this is about him missing drugs tests and lying about not having taken certain drugs when in fact he had. Skin colour has nothing to do with this, and it's a very cheap shot to allege racism because he's been criticised. That's the kind of nonsense Lewis Hamilton comes out with, TBH I expected better of Mo Farah.
I did question my dislike of him, whether, there is any racial element to it but I honestly think he just come across as a thoroughly unlikable guy. The whole thing with Gebreselassie's hotel before last year's London marathon pretty much sums him up I think.
One thing that really annoys me is that he always says how he gets criticism even though he's running for his country, trying to make the country proud, like we should be thankful to him somehow. What a load of BS. He's doing it for himself, all athletes are. Running is a completely selfish pastime. I'm sure competing for your country does mean an awful lot to nearly all competitors but the idea that he's doing it for us is rubbish.
Any injections of any substance other than for genuine medical reasons is not in the spirit of the rules, even if it falls short of illegal doping. I don’t know how the rest of you feel, but as far as I’m concerned if anything goes into an athletes body other than food and maybe a caffeine shot then it’s highly suspicious at best.
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9868537
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