The real Mo Farah (or not...)

I can't say I was a fan of his but that may have been the silly hand on the head thing he does. Maybe it means "send me south of the border" ;)

Anyway the whole representing your nation aspect in sport seems to have lost its meaning for a while. For example Chris Froome, born in Kenya and grew up in South Africa yet somehow represents Britain. Also Mark Cavendish from Isle of Man.

Then you have athletes training in another country. The notion of disparate countries competing against each other is long gone - may as well have a tombola to decide people's sporting nation.
 
Chris Wilson said:
You're kidding me, I have not the slightest interest in getting involved, the athletics and similar international level sports are seemingly so corrupt they're probably beyond redemption. When you have blokes in frocks competing in competitive sport as "women" it's a hopeless cause :) I don't even consider Farah to be English, in my own mind :)
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You don't even attempt to hide it do you :cry: So you have no evidence of him cheating, as if you did with you're clear distaste for the man you'd probably take great joy in supplying said evidence. Instead you try and hide behind "trans women" argument even though anti doping has nothing to do with sporting organisations deciding if trans women can compete in their sport. And he's British, not English. You are probably English but I really wish you weren't.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Having, to my misfortune, a family member at the very heart of supplying illegal performance enhancing substances to international level competitive cyclists I am probably in a better position than many to make an informed guess as to whether Farah, or whatever his real birth name is, is likely to have been guilty or not ;) I think a lot of these rewards are really due the pharmaceutical companies and the imagination of their corrupt stooges ;)
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Let's hear more, genuinely interested.
 
shifty_uk said:
What's everyones beef with Mo? Can't say I've seen much of him outside of sport.
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He was training with a coach in the USA (Salazar) that was caught doping some of his athletes. He got much faster while training with that coach than he was before. However, there is no tangible evidence that Mo himself was doping and Mo says he was clean.

The training group he was part of was linked to the Oregon Project which was heavily funded by Nike, and had a high level of influence to senior members of International Athletics (for example Seb Coe), whose response to the doping scandal wasn't exactly confidence inspiring.

You have to essentially go off trust that he was clean, despite others he trained with not being so, and how relatively easy it is to abuse the testing systems in place.

There were also claims he hit a woman in a fight in a hotel in Ethiopia (alleged not proven).
 
OK so he was never a refugee as such, he was kidnapped and held as a slave, meanwhile his family was in somaliland running a small farm.
So he has told us that what he told us was a lie, but apart from that he's still a national hero.

However, firstly why should I believe what he says now, did he ever go back to visit his mother.

So on the face of it he's conned his way into British athletics and must have had a lot of financial and other support that could have gone to some other poor kid.

Also, under what status did he apply for a marriage license and hence citizenship, was it as a refugee? Because he wasn't one.
If he had told the truth I could have accepted it, but the fact that he's admitted lying, how do we know he was trafficked at all?
Presumably someone was about to blow his cover so he thought he better come clean, or at least have a plausible sob story that no one would ever be able to disprove.
So was he just a plain old illegal immigrant?
All we know for sure I think is he is here and is not a refugee.
 
Drollic said:
Let's hear more, genuinely interested.
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I am certainly not going to post private conversations with family verbatim, but it was apparent to me such jobs would almost certainly entail expectations of "creativity" with prescription drugs issuing. You know, things like testosterone prescribed and obtained, not for the riders of course, but the team coach who allegedly had the ignomy of suffereing erectile dysfunction, and didn't want to approach his own GP for "reasons" ;) I was also led to believe doping was almost the norm, in high level athletics, and an eleventh commandment of "Thou shalt not get caught" was de rigueur amongst international sports medics. He wrote a book after the extensive and hugely expensive trial, and the court transcript will also be available, read both and form your own conclusions as to what to believe. Down to you what to believe, but "funny goings on" seem to surround some of the more noted sports players :)

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They should just do away with the rules around doping and let them crack on. I'd love to see the 100m done in 5s and then settle back to see the state of the long distance athletes as they cross the line after doing a marathon in 1:10. Imagine the Tour de France with cyclists powering up the steepest inclines at 70kph. :D
 
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