starmiler wrote:
If you read about how much differently Farah has worked under Salazar, you would not make baseless innuendos about Mo being a doper. He's cross-trained. He's lifted weights -- Salazar said he was outrageously weak in the upper body (I think he said upper body.) So there have been ample reasons, and sound explanations, for why he has become the runner he is. Legitimately.
Think about it - if you started cheating and your performances improved dramatically, how would you explain it to the press? You'd probably do the same thing everybody does - say something about changes in diet, and then list some things you are doing different in your training that nobody can really say whether they helped or not.
Personally, I'm kind of skeptical about the "Mo was incredibly weak" thing. It's been made out that Mo could only do like 5 pushups or something when he started with Salazar. I don't see how anybody could be able to have run as fast as he had already run without at least a little bit of upper body strength. Plus, it's not like Salazar is the only coach in the world who has his athletes do strength exercises. Farah had a competent coach before Salazar - I don't think he would have allowed him to be so weak that he could only do five pushups. The whole thing seems to me to be either grossly exaggerated or else a smokescreen to help cover up his suspicious improvement.