You guys are seeing ghosts.
How does it work at these tracks in Ethiopia (or in Kenya)? Does Mo get to call ahead and reserve the track for two hours while he does private workouts exclusively with the group he's "training with"?
I've seen pictures of tracks in Kenya and there are hundreds of local hopefuls who run together with elites.
I bet it's really not unusual for other unassociated athletes to be training on the same track at the same time.
exactly
isn't the story that kimetto was farming & noticed runners going past him most days & he decided to join in
then geoffrey mutai saw how good he was running alongside him & asked him to formally join their camp
in africa, there are no interviews for joining camps
you just run & if your good enough, someone will sign you up
Andres Espinoza
ventolin^3 wrote:
exactly
isn't the story that kimetto was farming & noticed runners going past him most days & he decided to join in
then geoffrey mutai saw how good he was running alongside him & asked him to formally join their camp
in africa, there are no interviews for joining camps
you just run & if your good enough, someone will sign you up
Sure, and this is nothing new. But this isn't the case with Driouch and Farah. They've been on social media together, posed for pictures over a meal too. They clearly know each other
Driouch "photobombed" Mo on the track.What picture did they pose over a meal?
buddy wrote:
ventolin^3 wrote:exactly
isn't the story that kimetto was farming & noticed runners going past him most days & he decided to join in
then geoffrey mutai saw how good he was running alongside him & asked him to formally join their camp
in africa, there are no interviews for joining camps
you just run & if your good enough, someone will sign you up
Sure, and this is nothing new. But this isn't the case with Driouch and Farah. They've been on social media together, posed for pictures over a meal too. They clearly know each other
Here you go. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/28/2628E9AB00000578-0-image-a-16_1425082008715.jpg
rekrunner wrote:
Driouch "photobombed" Mo on the track.
What picture did they pose over a meal?
buddy wrote:Sure, and this is nothing new. But this isn't the case with Driouch and Farah. They've been on social media together, posed for pictures over a meal too. They clearly know each other
Network Engie wrote:
Here you go.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/28/2628E9AB00000578-0-image-a-16_1425082008715.jpg
rekrunner = ventolin^3 = idiot
Not Cool Bro wrote:
I thought it was suspicious in the first place that Farah was in Ethiopia training all of a sudden when in the past he's always gone to Kenya. I figured it had to do with the fact that they're actually getting testing in Kenya now.
Testing is equally available in Ethiopia as it is in Kenya. Been that way for some time now.
adsfasfd wrote:
haha yeah okay...there "just so happened" to be a doper DOING A WORKOUT WITH HIM. Alright.
Hmm. Who is his coach? Who has he trained with for most of the last few years? So, if we are now going to assign guilt by association, how can you not question the involvement of the coach and most frequent training partner?
Just a heads up if you haven’t seen it…. Coach Jama Aden’s facebook page has photos of him and Mo together and of him and Head of British Athletics’ Endurance set up Barry Fudge (refered to as Coach Berry) all in Ethiopia.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coach-JAMA-ADEN-KARAIIN/79590682344?fref=ts
Are you sure that is Mo in the pictures? Looks different to me.
adsfasfd wrote:
haha yeah okay...there "just so happened" to be a doper DOING A WORKOUT WITH HIM. Alright*.
* All right, not alright.
Well he actually might have reserved the track for a few hours considering its Kenenisa Bekeles private track. So it definitely wouldn't be absurd to think someone with Mo's resources wouldn't reserve it for only him and his team.
TrackCoach wrote:
This does not look good at all.
I can't imagine going on a run and not knowing who I am running with, especially a 19 year old athlete with a 3:50x mile PR. I would like to assume after finding out one his former training partners was doping, to disassociate himself, Mo choose to deny training with this athlete.
Exactly, it definitely seems fishy that Mo would be hanging out with someone like Hamza and "not know" who he is. This does not seem to be playing out well for Farah and I am surprised that he hasn't tried to give more information on all of this. The blatant lies are also very bad and suspicious.
With this new story, it is seeming that Mo might not be clean after all. If he is a doper, I highly doubt he will get caught. Since he probably still has some connection to Al Sal it doesn't seem all to possible that he will get caught.
NOP needs to get ahead of this debacle and cut ties with Mo.
ventolin^3 wrote:
isn't the story that kimetto was farming & noticed runners going past him most days & he decided to join in
then geoffrey mutai saw how good he was running alongside him & asked him to formally join their camp
At that point, Hamza Driouch was not a farmer. He won World Junior Championships, he also competed in the Olympics, Diamond League meets, etc. Plus, Driouch trained with well-known coaches like Jama Aden and Abdelkader Kada.
It's crazy to think that Driouch simply was running alongside with Mo, without a formal invitation to join that training camp.
We all know how it goes. Where there's smoke there's fire.
Perhaps Mo did not recognize him as Driouch until later. If that is the case, then understandable.
But what's suspicious is that Mo's camp denied that he had associated with Driouch, when it's pretty obvious that he was associating with Driouch. That's what makes me think.
Anyways, incidents like these are why I don't care too much about what goes on the pro ranks anymore.
Random runner dude wrote:
But do they have an Airport Hilton Pharmacy in Ethiopia?
Moron.
For the 100th time, there is not even an Airport Hilton in Nairobi, let alone the famous "Airport Hilton Pharmacy."
Network Engie wrote:
Here you go.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/28/2628E9AB00000578-0-image-a-16_1425082008715.jpgrekrunner wrote:Driouch "photobombed" Mo on the track.
What picture did they pose over a meal?
rekrunner so burned.
Yep, it's not the fact that he was training alongside a cheater for several weeks, it's the fact he now claims he didn't know who the guy was that is very telling.
The first rule of lying is to only lie about things you must, and then only lie about things that would be hard to disprove. Mo is an idiot. Nike needs to get away from this guy.
