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.
Mo Farah Wanted To Triple: 1500, 5000 and 10,000
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thats what they all say
new coach new training
it's always peds -
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. -
he crossed over to the dark side when he realized that was his only shot at world glory
he isn't the first and he won't be the last -
maliceious wrote:
The schedule makes it not feasible, but one has to ask: how can he be this confident if he is not doping?
It's not even remotely possible; none of the (moderm era) greats in their prime even contemplated this. There is a big difference between running one great 1500m versus how it feels to run rounds. In spite of Mo's new found speed, the 5000m will not be a cakewalk, the Africans have a good game plan to beat him that I have seen work before.
Keep in mind that Ethiopia & Kenya have 3 legit distance runners and GB only has one. If someone 'legit' goes out in 12:30x pace, Mo can't let him get too far away and/or since Mo like to run near the back in the early stages of the race, they can have someone shift the pace. Both of these have worked effectively before against great athletes like Mo.
