10th Mtn Miler wrote:
What are the patterns of Mo, Hesch, Fagan that match other current elites?
Location? wrote:
mo farah
10th Mtn Miler wrote:
What are the patterns of Mo, Hesch, Fagan that match other current elites?
Location? wrote:
mo farah
rojo wrote:
curt kobaine wrote:Those questions had zero tact. Did you guys even discuss what questions to ask and how to ask them, or did you do that completely on a whim?
Why do I need to do tact? I want the truth.
When they first approached us, he said to me, "What do you guys want from us?" and I was like, "The truth."
The questions were direct and what anyone who is deeply involved in the sport as we are is thinking. I sent them exactly what I wanted to know.
I didn't want to do an email interview and was giving the questions I wanted to ask over the phone to them as a courtesy so they wouldn't come out of left field.
What do you want me to do. Do you want me to lie to him just to protect his feelings?
Should I lie and say "Given that USADA tested you more than 10 times in 2012 or 2013 (they really went after him one year it looks like when I looked at the testig data) and you never tested positive, this comes as a real shock?"
No, to me. All the test indicate they suspected something or had a tip. Now he gets caught.
Tone gets lost a bit on email, but basically, I wanted to know all of the details.
Seriously? You really know why you need tact? Because people won't answer your questions if you're rude. Sure, you want answers, but if you go about it in a confrontational way, people will say "fvck you" and shut down. Can't believe you really thought your approach would work.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
A good editor doesn't just proofread for typos. The questions themselves need to be edited. The questions are valid, but need to be reworded. There is an art to communication.
Yes.
However, for one thing, there's no reason to believe that rojo is even telling the truth about his material being reviewed by an editor. There are precedents for this -- he had admitted trolling his own board on multiple occasions.
Also, he is shady and dishonest as hell when it comes to this board -- he freely deletes posts that challenge the bubble he inhabits here, e.g., those calling for a registration requirement.
I love how you guys are piling on the brojos when the real story is that Mo Trafeh cheated.
The fact is, Letsrun is the PREMIER site for track and field news and discussion. They are obviously doing something right.
Harry Carey is on point. It looks like someone actually learned something while most people were going through their drunken haze self-discovery phase of their life. The questions should be blunt and relatively harsh, as I'm not one for tact but they need to be pointed to the broadest direction.
Mo wasn't going to answer any question besides repeat his little PR script his lawyer has given him. It just seems odd that every time someone busted it was their first time or they hadn't used it or I was just coming off injury. Save your little sob stories and your "but I've never tested positive" refutation.
He's been suspect for years by fans, competitors and the anti doping agencies. I'm not surprised but if Mo really cares about the running community he needs to open the door into the doping industry.
He doesn't have anything more to lose but could gain a lot of respect if he legitimately came clean and help take down the cheaters,wether they are other athletes, coaches, agents or doctors.
Tell the truth and do the right thing for the sport.
That something is not forcing user name registration.
Testy Testing wrote:
That something is not forcing user name registration.
Contrary what a lot of whiners believe, you are correct.
maybe they got the wrong mo?
maybe the suitcase belongs to farah and they nabbed the wrong guy
Honestly haha. I opened the page this morning and thought it said Mo Farah got caught... Then i was like who the hell is Mo Trafeh?
Collegemiler400 wrote:
Honestly haha. I opened the page this morning and thought it said Mo Farah got caught... Then i was like who the hell is Mo Trafeh?
Follow the sport.
how would you have asked that specific question?
rojo wrote:
disapponted wrote:So LaCour thinks "Your questions were understandably insulting to Mohamed", I wonder if LaCour and Mohamed think followers and those involved in running/T&F feel insulted.
Great post.
The whole time I just kept saying to myself, "This makes no sense. They are coming to us - not the other way around. They obviously are looking for sympathy but then putting out a statement that isn't going to generate any."
It's just hilarious to me that people here have offered you legitimate constructive criticism, and all you do is brush it off defensively while picking one of the few posts that agrees with you and congratulating it for being great. Wow you are hardheaded.
big-time writer wrote:
If you guys come to Letsrun for the amazing journalism, you are clueless. You clearly are all visiting the website regularly; they are laughing all the way to the bank, so just shut up and stop whining. He asked those questions like a regular guy, they are asked in a tone that makes the little dirtbags (Mo and his lawyer)cringe. They aren't going to answer ANY questions honestly, anyway, so who cares about the details? Also, most of you want the answers to those questions, AS THEY WERE ASKED. You guys come here for the "stirring of the soup," so let's leave the professionally-toned questions (yawn) to the NYTimes article. Those questions were asked by a track fan who wants answers, just like YOU. I liked the questions.
The fact of the matter is the brojos take a hard line on doping and when a golden opportunity presents itself, they totally flub it. They aren't uncovering anything here. A headline would have sufficed. If they actually want to help the sport and unearth something greater, they will have to start acting like journalists or hire someone that knows what they are doing.
I thought the questions were great, they asked just what I wanted to know in clear, declarative sentences. There was no ambiguity or wiggle room, just the fact Mo, just the facts.
I find it incredible that the would be journalists and pretend lawyers think that Mo was ever going to answer any real questions. He wasn't, and to believe otherwise is either naive or disingenuous. Letsrun cut to the chase and left the time-wasting questions out. Good job Brothers Johnson.
Gelindo wrote:
I thought the questions were great, they asked just what I wanted to know in clear, declarative sentences. There was no ambiguity or wiggle room, just the fact Mo, just the facts.
I find it incredible that the would be journalists and pretend lawyers think that Mo was ever going to answer any real questions. He wasn't, and to believe otherwise is either naive or disingenuous. Letsrun cut to the chase and left the time-wasting questions out. Good job Brothers Johnson.
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Gelindo wrote:
I thought the questions were great, they asked just what I wanted to know in clear, declarative sentences. There was no ambiguity or wiggle room, just the fact Mo, just the facts.
I find it incredible that the would be journalists and pretend lawyers think that Mo was ever going to answer any real questions. He wasn't, and to believe otherwise is either naive or disingenuous. Letsrun cut to the chase and left the time-wasting questions out. Good job Brothers Johnson.
The questions were terrible. To me that is the real story here. How some Ivy-league educated guy who takes a hardline stance on drugs was handed a story that screamed to him, rightfully so, as the story of the year, and how he botched whatever opportunity he might've had by coming across as incessant and accusatory - read both question 6s (why are there two question 6s) - they sound like a child at schoolyard bullying some kid.
I understand that Mo is in the wrong here. That is obvious. No one should spin what I say to make it seem like I don't think that. Mo is in the wrong. Getting him to be far more honest about his wrongdoings could help the sport tremendously. See? I believe this. But ROJO, why do you need tact? You need tact because you're a human being and so is Mo. Just because he did EPO doesn't mean he needs to be insulted by the most read source of news in track and field.
ROJO, You can use your authority to boss people like Mo around, to play god, to make yourself feel like you are doing something good for the sport, or you can bend your back a little bit and treat these drug cheats like people who made choices, people who have lives, people who messed up and could use forgiveness. I think you'd get more honest answers the second way of doing things. And to anyone who disagrees, remember what it was like when you messed up as a child and then someone yelled in your face about it. You still did wrong, right? But it still sucked, right? Just have a little more respect for people's humanity, ROJO & others. It's something I'm trying to work on, too.
wejo should be the one doing interviews. he's pretty much rojo's opposite.
Oh come on. The questions were objective and not insulting to anyone more mature than a 5-year-old.
If Mo wanted to talk, there was no way to avoid the issue while answering those questions.
"I was stopped before I was able to use EPO, I never previously used EPO and if I had the financial resources to fight this case, I am confident that I would prevail."
Yeah, ok. What a turd.
I want to be reading about Mo Farah and Galen Rupp getting caught - the Salazar group. Flotrtack is Nike whores as they know Mo F is dirty but they were bought off and now kiss that groups butt inside and out. So what a little guy got caught. How about catching the big really dirty fish now.