Those of you interested in drug cheats in sport might find this on Mo Farah
a nice and condemning summary of the massive tw@t. Copy and pasted from The Times on Friday.
July 2006 Mo Farah wins silver in the 5,000m at the European championships
August 2008 Fails to make the 5,000m Olympic final in Beijing
August 2009 Finishes seventh in the 5,000m at the world championships
Early 2010 Misses drugs test (reported in June 2015)
July 2010 Wins his first European titles, in the 5,000m and 10,000m, at the age of 27
February 2011 Begins training with Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project in Portland
Summer 2011 Misses second drug test after failing to answer the doorbell when testers rang it for an hour
September 2011 Wins his first world title, in the 5,000m, after taking silver in the 10,000m in Daegu, South Korea
August 2012 Wins his first Olympic gold medals, in London, in the 5,000m and 10,000m
March 2013 Trains with the disgraced sprint coach John Smith, who was named in documents connected to the Balco drugs scandal involving Britain’s Dwain Chambers and Marion Jones, of the United States
April 2014 Farah receives a legal L-carnitine injection before the London Marathon from the former chief medical officer of UK Athletics (not reported until 2017), under instruction from Salazar
July 2014 Farah tweets a photo saying he was in Font-Romeu, in France, when he was two hours away in Sabadell, Spain. This is where the Somali coach Jama Aden’s running group were training and where he was arrested two years later
Early 2015 Starts training block in Ethiopia and is pictured running with Hamza Driouch, one of Aden’s athletes who was serving a two-year ban
June 2015 BBC documentary alleges that Salazar gave Galen Rupp, Farah’s long-time training partner, a banned substance when Rupp was 16 in 2002. Rupp and Salazar deny this. Farah says he will stick by Salazar unless the accusations are proved to be true
September 2015 Farah admits taking the stimulant Khat in Somalia in 2003, five months before it was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned substance list
November 2015 Farah is flagged as “likely doping” on IAAF biological passport list, which was leaked by the Russian hackers Fancy Bears, before being “flagged as normal” in April 2016
Early 2016 Farah is pictured with Aden in Ethiopia, who has been present at some of his training sessions
June 2016 Aden is arrested in Spain after police find EPO and other banned products in the hotel where his running group were staying. British Athletics claims Aden had worked as an “unofficial facilitator” for Farah
August 2016 Farah wins two more Olympic gold medals, in Rio, in the 5,000m and 10,000m
February 2017 The Sunday Times reveals that a US Anti-Doping Agency report from 2016 shows Salazar was giving Farah and other Nike Oregon Project athletes prescription drugs with potentially harmful side-effects, including calcitonin (to attempt to prevent stress fractures) and thyroxine (to boost testosterone levels), and high doses of vitamin D and iron sulphate
October 2017 Farah cuts ties with Salazar and returns to London, saying he wants to spend more time with family and friends
April 2018 Finishes third at the London Marathon, setting a British record in the process.
