Mo Thread

[the sceptic]

Paula is outraged. Deeply.

Aimee Lewis
‏@aimee_lou_lewis
"His reputation, sadly, has already been damaged," says Paula Radcliffe on BBC Two on Farah. "People will not forget this."

 

[ray j willings]

 

[gillan1969]

Via twitter Mark Daly says Mo's had a month to come up with his story, get Alberto's side etc. Does not wash at all to be acting all shocked and surprised now.


Mark Daly ‏@BBCMarkDaly 1h1 hour ago
Mo Farah's agent was made aware of the BBC's allegations against Salazar and Rupp exactly a month ago.

yup..mo reckons the first he spoke to salazar about it was friday...he must have been confident the bbc wouldn't screen

 

[mrhender]

Meanwhile Slow-MO flies to US to "confront" Salazar with doping allegations..

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/07/mo-farah-flies-us-confront-alberto-salazar-doping-allegations?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[del1962]

Andy Vernon being diplomatic

https://audioboom.com/boos/3258802-andy-vernon-on-mo-farah

 

[the sceptic]

Re:

Meanwhile Slow-MO flies to US to "confront" Salazar with doping allegations..

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/07/mo-farah-flies-us-confront-alberto-salazar-doping-allegations?CMP=share_btn_tw

which doesn't make any sense since they both knew about this program long before it was on.

 

[mrhender]

Re: Re:

Meanwhile Slow-MO flies to US to "confront" Salazar with doping allegations..

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/07/mo-farah-flies-us-confront-alberto-salazar-doping-allegations?CMP=share_btn_tw

which doesn't make any sense since they both knew about this program long before it was on.

Makes plenty of sense... As show for the gallery...

Maybe half the fans believes that crap...

 

[mrhender]

LOL

 

[Benotti69]

Hope the Feds get involved in this one and we get some truth........but not gonna hold my breath....

 

[Freddythefrog]

Re:

LOL

+1

That is so funny.....and to think we used to imagine ours was the only sport with a bunch of self aggrandizing hypocritical plonkers at the top.

I just loved that quote from the IAAF about the journalists should have kept quiet and let us investigate it. What get them and the LTA together and the suppliers would sure be shaking in their boots.

 

[the sceptic]

and this guy is going to become the IAAF president soon.. jesus

 

[mrhender]

Re: Re:

LOL

snip

I just loved that quote from the IAAF about the journalists should have kept quiet and let us investigate it. What get them and the LTA together and the suppliers would sure be shaking in their boots.

Yes.. That was the icing on the cake....

It seems that everything is culminating these days...

Sports has this week been displayed for once for how *** they are... But the only ones in power to do something seems to be the very core of the problem....

 

[Nederick]

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Speaking of commentators, hypocrisy and mo, I remember Cram and plenty of others getting their panties in a twist about how Makhloufi must be doping to win the Olympics 1500m. The BBC discussion afterwards was speculation about when he will be stripped. They brought in some "veteran" daily mail journo who thought nothing about explicitly that Makhloufi will be stripped of his medal.

This was all purely on performance since TM has never been linked to doping or tested positive.

His performance was 3.34. Perfectly normal for a 1500m specialist. His personal best is 3:30.40, nothing special at all.

Mo Farah a year later run the 1500m in 3.28.80, the 6th fastest of all time. He is not even a middle distance runner. It was his first attempt at the distance in years. He wasn't even preparing for the distance, it was just a little distraction fun run while he was preparing for the 10 000m at the world championships.

No word of course from any of them. Kind of how like in cycling its more suspicious for a life long pro cyclist to win a stage at the Tour of Turkey than it is for a team pursuit rider to win the Tour de France.

Yeh I could buy into some of his major wins. Especially when the field would just play into his hands they way the race would unfold. But that 3.28 was pretty ridiculous. Alarm bells ringing loudly after that one.

 

[MartinGT]

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Mo's rise has always been very suspect, from almost nowhere to winning double golds at Olympics and Worlds.

Could never truly get behind the guy

Now where have I seen that before? Hmmmmm

 

[ray j willings]

Lets say by some chance that Mo gets caught.... then what?


We will get a bunch of well known athletes, commentators etc saying how shocked they are. Nothing is really going to be done because no one with any power or influence can do anything except keep pretending that most athletes are clean and pretend they are shocked again when the next big name gets busted. its a never ending circle of fallen hero's and money making.

You can't stop it ...

 

[ebandit]

.............in that unlikely scenario poor mo would be vindicated............innocent victim of an evil coach.........

..........after all a shocked mo wanted words following recent revelations

Mark L

 

[SeriousSam]

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Lets say by some chance that Mo gets caught.... then what?

Then that drug cheating Somali should have taken a page out of Paula's book.

 

[Chaddy]

Re: Re:

Mo's rise has always been very suspect, from almost nowhere to winning double golds at Olympics and Worlds.

Could never truly get behind the guy

Now where have I seen that before? Hmmmmm

I did wonder if someone would spot that

 

[London Hibs]

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LOL

The answer to 1 across is BULLSH!T

 

[Benotti69]

Re: Re:

LOL


The answer to 1 across is BULLSH!T

Across
1 MISHMASH

 

[Swifty's Cakes]

Alberto Salazar says he will show his accusers are "knowingly making false statements"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33063187

Is this a new one or just semantics?

 

[Freddythefrog]

Quite slow off the mark but the penny dropped. Next these professional sports journalists will spot that Rump and Mo's statements are identical and ask - where have we seen that before ? Lots of places including the pair of Welsh boys before the Glasgow CGs.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/10/mo-farah-alberto-salazar-panorama-bbc

 

[Benotti69]

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Quite slow off the mark but the penny dropped. Next these professional sports journalists will spot that Rump and Mo's statements are identical and ask - where have we seen that before ? Lots of places including the pair of Welsh boys before the Glasgow CGs.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/10/mo-farah-alberto-salazar-panorama-bbc

The last paragraph says it all. Guardian wanted facts and needed them stapled to their head before risking a libel case and Mo has a foundation to use as a shield..........seems every big time doper needs a foundation these days....

 

[The Carrot]

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Quite slow off the mark but the penny dropped. Next these professional sports journalists will spot that Rump and Mo's statements are identical and ask - where have we seen that before ? Lots of places including the pair of Welsh boys before the Glasgow CGs.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/10/mo-farah-alberto-salazar-panorama-bbc

Hi Freddy the Frog

The Guardian article you have linked states; 'Mo Farah faces questions over exactly when he knew the seriousness of the doping allegations being levelled against his coach Alberto Salazar', Farah is quoted as saying 'maybe three to four days (notice) before.

Yet here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/olympic-legend-mo-farah-stunned-2275353 in a Mirror article dated 15th Sept 2013! we have an article stating that 'The double gold medallist was left reeling after the BBC investigated "ridiculous" allegations centred on his trainer Alberto Salazar'. The article states that the investigation was shelved (temporarily it would seem). Also of note is the fact that Mo uses the 'I'm probably the most tested athlete in the world' quote!

Anyway, my point is that for Farah to state he had 3 or 4 days notice is 'a bit rich', that might be believable if he was talking about the notice he received of the actual broadcast of the programme, but that's not what the article says, it mentions Farah being informed that BBC was working on a 60-minute documentary, which he clearly already knew about (at least in it's initial form) in 2013. Shelved in 2013 or not, he has had a lot of notice as to the BBC's investigation into his coach, surprised the Guardian didn't pick up on this.

 

[gillan1969]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33096367

so..looks like some journos have a bit of self respect...look for the inconsistencies and engage brain....hopefully Froome next