Mo Farah Panorama tonight

What has always puzzled me about all this is regardless of guilt or innocence surely mo realises that his close association to a known doper (not libel as it’s a proven fact) is going to tarnish his own reputation.
Why the hell would a clean athlete risk that for a dirty coach and why did british athletics allow it as well.
it’s all very odd very odd
Was salozar really that good to be worth all that.
 
It doesn't look good, but the injections in question are related to a permitted supplement as far as I can see. Unless the doses contravened current WADA limits then the only thing that this serves to do is to cast suspicion on Farah and not provide any actual evidence of wrongdoing.

I think there's a very important larger conversation needed about the use of supplements and the use of actual PEDs because to those outside sport, there doesn't seem to be enough distinction as to what is legal, what is illegal and what is possibly pushing the rules to their limit.
 
Zorro - lots of evidence to support athletes are susceptible to asthma. Cyclists, for instance, spend a lot of their early years guzzling up exhaust fumes whilst out training.

Dood - it does look as though it was within permitted levels. I'm more interested, if the reports are true, on him being evasive with the investigators. As the saying goes 'if you have nothing to hide.....why hide something'
 
Mo Farah is a liar. This much is fact. He was caught out re. the L Carnitine injections (why lie to USADA?) and he was caught out when he denied knowing the doping coach Jama Aden (caught with 19 ready loaded doses of EPO in Spain) when he had been photographed training with him in Etheopia... or Eth -epo ...pia as it's known in cynical cirlcles. He lied about his knowledge of the investigations into Salazar too. Why anyone would believe a word he says is beyond me.
Oh ... "I couldn't hear the doorbell" ... when drug testers called at his flat at an inconvenient time.

He's a liar and a ... you do the rest.
 
What has always puzzled me about all this is regardless of guilt or innocence surely mo realises that his close association to a known doper (not libel as it’s a proven fact) is going to tarnish his own reputation.
Why the hell would a clean athlete risk that for a dirty coach and why did british athletics allow it as well.
it’s all very odd very odd
Was salozar really that good to be worth all that.
Good question, just as is a fat Jamaican bloke really capable of producing a production line of world class sprinters putting the sporting super powers with all their sports scientists to shame?
 
I am glad that Zorro asked the question though as it sort of links nicely into the questions I posed in my opening post.
The perception that an athlete that has asthma medication is only using it as a PED is a dangerous one.
 
I am glad that Zorro asked the question though as it sort of links nicely into the questions I posed in my opening post.
The perception that an athlete that has asthma medication is only using it as a PED is a dangerous one.

Thyroid medication on the other hand ....
 
I accept pro Footballers take PED, as in athletics and cycling if the bloke who comes 47th is on them the top has to be.
 
Professional sport is rife with EPO's, football included. The difference between football and some other sports, such as cycling or athletics, is that it doesn't want to turn over the rock, for fear of 'damaging the brand'.
 
What we don’t know is wether the injections were within accepted levels, no records were kept, how could the doctor know? Mo couldn’t remember getting the injection so how could he remember the quantity?

salazaar was experimenting with micro dosing, he was checking to see how long it took for substances to be clear of the body so tests could be passed.
The ‘he is one of the most tested athletes in the world and has never failed a test’ doesn’t wash either after Lance.
 
Its then difficult for the local athletics clubs to give examples of playing fair and staying clean.

Is staying clean and just competing enough ? The local coaches wouldn't have it any other way I would imagine, so at what stage does it go wrong?

Is it manipulated by Govt sports ministry's like Russia have done?

London we seemed to have had lots and lots of winners and dominated cycling...all of a sudden!
 
They barely test in football when you compare it to how many tests are done in cycling.

What worries me about Mo is that he lied about the injections, they weren't on his medical records and he didn't declare them on his doping control form. But we have to believe his word when he says it was below the specified amount. He can't prove he didn't break the rules but we (at the moment) can't prove he did.

I think there is more to come out, especially as he is a current runner. And he's rocking the Lance cover story - 'never failed a test'.
 
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