Just to be clear....
Mo Farah is the 8th fastest man in history over 1500m. He's a 5/10k runner.
In the entire history of track, including a decade where EPO was widely available but was completely untestable, a total of 7 1500m specialists have run faster than him.
And this is from a guy who up until the age of 28, was finishing mid-pack in his speciality of 5k
Just to be clear wrote:
Just to be clear....
Mo Farah is the 8th fastest man in history over 1500m. He's a 5/10k runner.
In the entire history of track, including a decade where EPO was widely available but was completely untestable, a total of 7 1500m specialists have run faster than him.
And this is from a guy who up until the age of 28, was finishing mid-pack in his speciality of 5k
Maybe he picked the wrong speciality.
A top 10 1500m runner with high-mileage training is apparently a good bet to win 5/10km titles in an era of relatively slow sit and kick races.
So just to be clear again......
What you're saying is Farah was running at the top level for well over a decade, including multiple 1500m, without having any inkling he should have been a 1500m specialist. Then at the age of 30, without training specifically for the event, it all suddenly becomes clear that he is actually one of the fastest 1500m runners in history all along.
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Just to be clear wrote:Just to be clear....
Mo Farah is the 8th fastest man in history over 1500m. He's a 5/10k runner.
In the entire history of track, including a decade where EPO was widely available but was completely untestable, a total of 7 1500m specialists have run faster than him.
And this is from a guy who up until the age of 28, was finishing mid-pack in his speciality of 5k
Maybe he picked the wrong speciality.
A top 10 1500m runner with high-mileage training is apparently a good bet to win 5/10km titles in an era of relatively slow sit and kick races.
I look forward to reading your history of all those "top 10 1500m" runners that were also world and Olympic champion at 10000m.
Give it up trolls, Mo is clean. Accept that he is the greatest distance runner in history. Lots insinuations and suggestions that Mo is doping, but once again, without a shred of evidence.
"But...but...but Lance never failed a test"
(incomplete post) Big difference is that Lance was accused of doping by ex team mates, journalists and ex staffs from his team. Ignoring the fact that Mo has never failed a test and his blood data is normal, has Mo ever been accused of doping by a journalist, athlete or a coach?
bobgob wrote:
(incomplete post) Big difference is that Lance was accused of doping by ex team mates, journalists and ex staffs from his team. Ignoring the fact that Mo has never failed a test and his blood data is normal, has Mo ever been accused of doping by a journalist, athlete or a coach?
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There's never been so much of a whiff of doping around Mo
I mean it's not like Mo's missed multiple drug tests and has a coach under investigation by USADA or anything
Too Right wrote:
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There's never been so much of a whiff of doping around Mo
I mean it's not like Mo's missed multiple drug tests and has a coach under investigation by USADA or anything
Or a training partner who was busted for EPO.....
Too Right wrote:
bobgob wrote:(incomplete post) Big difference is that Lance was accused of doping by ex team mates, journalists and ex staffs from his team. Ignoring the fact that Mo has never failed a test and his blood data is normal, has Mo ever been accused of doping by a journalist, athlete or a coach?
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There's never been so much of a whiff of doping around Mo
I mean it's not like Mo's missed multiple drug tests and has a coach under investigation by USADA or anything
I ask again, has Mo ever been accused of doping by a coach, journalist or an athlete? Just one one would be enough. Lance had accusations, Mo has none. Zero, Zilch. Not a single allegation to his name.
Since you seem to believe the BBC documentary and the accusation made against Salazar (which he refuted) as absolute fact. Why can't you also believe the same BBC who have stated multiple times that there is no suggestion Mo Farah has done anything wrong. They keep stressing that in all their articles.
By the way, he missed two tests, in his entire career. He's been tested over a 150 times since 2010. Missing 2 drug tests in an entire career seems average at the best, especially when the UK doping agency is one of the strictest and the best in the world. I doubt his rivals in Kenya or Ethiopia have been tested anywhere near the same. Which is why a number of British athletes came out in support and revealed that they too missed tests, in some cases, twice.
He's away from ooc testing most of the time in East Africa- no blood testing whatsoever
He also flies in from altitude to meets- no blood tests recorded for ABP due to recent altitude exposure
It is no surprise that his test results are normal as he is gaming the system in his favor
You may may enjoy this article from 2001
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/jul/30/cycling.cycling1
Dominant athlete working with trainer that's under suspicion.
Journalists questioning why athlete would work with said trainer but no accusations against the athlete himself.
Statements that the athlete had never tested positive despite undergoing many doping tests.
All sounds so strangely familiar....
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks so.