Mo Thread

[Cycle Chic]

If Mo Farah were put on a bike and sent up Ventoux - how do we think he would do ? seriously - would he ride up there like Froome ?

 

[zalacain]

Aunty Beeb says Mo and Usain Bolt are not on the list
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33749208

 

[Texeng]

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Aunty Beeb says Mo and Usain Bolt are not on the list
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33749208

Looks like further confirmation that Mo's blood results are within normal limits and are now released to the public domain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...blic-double-Olympic-champion-prove-clean.html

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Re: Re:

Aunty Beeb says Mo and Usain Bolt are not on the list
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33749208

Looks like further confirmation that Mo's blood results are within normal limits and are now released to the public domain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...blic-double-Olympic-champion-prove-clean.html

Explain normal limits.

 

[veganrob]

Re: Re:

Aunty Beeb says Mo and Usain Bolt are not on the list
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33749208

Looks like further confirmation that Mo's blood results are within normal limits and are now released to the public domain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...blic-double-Olympic-champion-prove-clean.html

That article confirms nothing.

 

[Texeng]

Re: Re:

Aunty Beeb says Mo and Usain Bolt are not on the list
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33749208

Looks like further confirmation that Mo's blood results are within normal limits and are now released to the public domain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...blic-double-Olympic-champion-prove-clean.html

That article confirms nothing.

Ah, my mistake. I thought that the Sunday Times quote "The newspaper reports a total of 20 of Farah's blood test results held on the IAAF's database - covering from June 2005 to May 2012 - are within the normal range." would have been from the two "experts" that are commenting on all of the other IAAF leaked results. While I agree that this does not confirm that Mo is clean, that is not what I claimed

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Re:

If Mo Farah were put on a bike and sent up Ventoux - how do we think he would do ? seriously - would he ride up there like Froome ?

No. What do you think? and do you think Shaolin Monks on pot of EPO would be incredible cyclist?

 

[Cycle Chic]

wow !! really good comparison

 

[SeriousSam]

Looks like the Mo's measurements are not serially independent, and instead look like it's more likely to get a value above the trend if the preceding value was below the trend and the other way around. Can someone comment on why that is?

 

[Catwhoorg]

Hard to say without dates to correlate to. That is another big issue here, no dates.

Peaks and troughs of some sort are normal within a training cycle.
If he is only tested for blood say twice a year, and each time around the same sort of period, that could just be related to the timing.

 

[hondated]

Have I missed something, as this thread as gone very quiet given Mo's recent wins.

 

[The Carrot]

Knives are still out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3346433/Mo-Farah-trained-one-Italian-athletes-facing-two-year-doping-ban-Alberto-Salazar-run-Nike-Oregon-Project.html

 

[Dazed and Confused]

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Knives are still out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3346433/Mo-Farah-trained-one-Italian-athletes-facing-two-year-doping-ban-Alberto-Salazar-run-Nike-Oregon-Project.html

Off topic ofcourse, but the destination reminds me of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/nov/05/wayne-rooney-nike-town-manchester-united

 

[Jacques (7 ch)]

So in the Times Mo says to Matthew Syed 'I published my blood data' and Syed appends 'Farah's results were in the normal range'. Really, just like that?

Times magazine 12 Dec

 

[Cycle Chic]

Farah looked very uncomfortable on Sports Personality last night.

 

[sniper]

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Farah looked very uncomfortable on Sports Personality last night.

you think something's coming?


you do wonder, as soon as the Kenya scandal expands in full glory if/how that will change public perception of Farah.
i think there's hardly been a race where he didn't beat some doped up Kenyan, or a couple of them.

 

[Jacques (7 ch)]

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Farah looked very uncomfortable on Sports Personality last night.

you think something's coming?


you do wonder, as soon as the Kenya scandal expands in full glory if/how that will change public perception of Farah.
i think there's hardly been a race where he didn't beat some doped up Kenyan, or a couple of them.

He trains in Kenya too.

 

[Freddythefrog]

This is interesting on Mo. Apparently the USADA report on Salhazar will be out in January sometime. No wonder he was looking despondent ! A pity it can't all be left to British Athletics and UKAD, they are so nice when they investigate British sporting icons.

And a nice point to note, Mo's company recorded a profit of £1.96 million last year.

And they really do need to get some decent door bells fitted in the Nike Oregon Project accommodation, - apparently fellow Salhazar protege Danielle Meucci was very unfairly caught out three times and now has a two year ban. Just how rotten is that ? I bet he dreams of the days of them calling on Lance and "I'll be with you in a minute" as they waltz the saline solution and drip equipment past the nice kindly , waiting testers and hook it up.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/at-home-in-oregon-mo-farah-still-lives-under-a-dubious-haze-of-unanswered-questions-a6781031.html

 

[thehog]

Poor Mo, coincidence strikes again! :lol:

Mo Farah’s training set-up is under urgent review after it emerged he was training alongside a convicted doper.

British Athletics have admitted to The Mail On Sunday that they have been using a coach heavily connected with a drugs cheat to organise the double Olympic champion’s trip to Ethiopia and provide running partners for his sessions.

Jama Aden, described as an ‘unofficial facilitator’ to the governing body during Farah’s seven-week stay in the high altitude town of Sululta earlier this year, provided athletes, including former world junior 1500m champion Hamza Driouch, to train with Farah.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2973872/Mo-Farah-training-set-urgent-review-emerged-training-alongside-convicted-doper-Hamza-Driouch.html#ixzz4C8MtsZmR

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The coach of World 1500m champion Genzebe Dibaba and other long-distance runners was arrested near Barcelona after Spanish police raided his hotel room and found traces of EPO and other banned substances on Monday.

Jama Aden, a Somalian, was detained along with one of his unnamed trainers from Morocco, as the IAAF tested 30 athletes who were also guests at the Sabadell hotel, about 25 kilometers from Barcelona, where the coach has established annual training camps since 2013.

Police confirmed Aden and his trainer were under arrest on charges of administering and distributing doping substances and endangering public health. After questioning by law enforcement, both detainees should face prosecution within 72 hours.

http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/06/20/genzebe-dibaba-coach-jama-aden-doping-raid-arrest-track-and-field-olympics/

 

[sniper]

Great opportunity for UKAD to do absolutely nothing again.

 

[thehog]

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Great opportunity for UKAD to do absolutely nothing again.

UKAD can send out a tweet for British athletes to lay off the sauce for a day or two.

 

[thehog]

LoL!

British Athletics’ performance director Neil Black and head of endurance Barry Fudge were with Farah in Ethiopia but also deny knowing who Driouch was

 

[TomLPC]

This is almost as great as rasmussens "I was having an affair" excuse

"Meanwhile, British Athletics has rushed to clarify Farah’s relationship with Aden, saying it extended only to shouting out times as Farah did laps around the track in the Ethiopian town of Sululta in 2015. Despite this, Farah was also photographed with Aden in February when he trained alongside some of the Somali’s athletes at another camp in Ethiopia."

 

[Ricco']

Several pictures later emerged showing them running, travelling back from the track and dining together but a source close to Farah said: ‘He is so focused on his training that he often doesn’t know the identity of other athletes around him.’

This is the best part for me. :lol:

 

[thehog]

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Several pictures later emerged showing them running, travelling back from the track and dining together but a source close to Farah said: ‘He is so focused on his training that he often doesn’t know the identity of other athletes around him.’

This is the best part for me. :lol:

Just taking lap times, anyone could have done it