Mo Farah trained with Driouch in Ethiopia (UPDATED, title changed)

Hey there Ben. Ricky Simms would be the liar as he made the statement, not Mo. Perhaps Ricky thought he could bury the story with denial. None of this actually means Mo is doping, it maybe suspicious, but does not prove anything.

Mo is an idiot- just look at how he acts.

"First they made me king, then they made me Pope. Then they brought the rope"

This quote is now missing from the Telegraph story, "Ricky Simms, Farah’s agent, confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that Farah had no knowledge of Driouch’s apparent presence in Ethiopia and he is not associated with any other athletes who may have been on the track at the same time as him"

Without that quote no where would anyone be implying Farah didn't know he was training with Driouch which is pretty obvious.

We have reached out to the author for comment as there is no correction on the Daily Telegraph. We can assume Simms disputed implying that to Ben Bloom the author.

Our story on this posted last night is here:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/02/drug-cheat-hamza-driouch-training-mo-farah-ethiopia-supplied-17-year-old-doper/

It seems Farah knew who Drioch was and was working out with him, but Simms was just saying it doesn't mean anything that he was working out with a guy whose suspension had not hit the wires yet, even if it was dated to December 31st.

But ... You know that doping is not contagious!

I knew there was a good reason I didn't like farah, seems so fake... Cannot stand him!

I'll take quiet, awkward Rupp any day over the self loving Moshow! It's so annoying. Now he's a full blown liar... What a piece of shhhhxxxxit!

Here is to Caleb Ndiku! Please end the Moshow!!!

Lying... because that's what champions do.

Still awaiting a correction from the British press.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Still awaiting a correction from the British press.

Might not see one...

I have said this before, Mo is losing credibility with the British public. Listen to my words. There are way too many incidents already. Even the average club runner who is not a die hard fan of the sport is already sick of Mo.

It's only a matter of time before the press buys the concept that Mo is not athletics sweetheart. From that point on, his career will be sent to oblivion, no matter what he wins or accomplishes.

He is suspicious of everyone - because that's what champions are. No way he didn't know who he was with, associations etc etc. Liar and a ....... that how it goes . People are sick of this side show - next!

I should have checked my email first thing this morning. Ricky Simms wrote:

"I woke up to read the latest Mo story.

You are correct in your summary of the situation on letsrun.com – the journalist misattributed the statement and has now corrected it.

He did not talk to Mo yesterday, I had not spoken to Mo about it, therefore Mo did not ‘deny’ anything - the Telegraph story has been updated here –

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/11441027/Mo-Farah-pictured-running-with-Qatari-drug-cheat-Hamza-Driouch.html

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As I said I haven’t spoken to Mo about it but I expect it would have been hard for him to know anything about the Qatari kid being banned as his ban was only announced a few days ago when Mo was already back in Portland."

We have updated our article with Ricky's statement. I disagree that the journalist has corrected it. There should be a correction at the bottom or something to show the article has changed. I'm going to change the title of this thread as well as its clear Mo Farah didn't lie and didn't deny training with Driouch.

I'd be much more suspicious of Mo if the photos showed these guys training together in or before Summer 2012 (when Driouch was doped up and winning).

Ask yourself - if Mo Farah was doping together with Drouth, would he POST A PICURE OF THEM TRAINING ON HIS OWN INSTAGRAM?!?

No, he would not. Also, in the very first post of this thread, the OP says 'everyone knows Driouch is MOROCCAN and therefore not just a guy who was there.' He is not Moroccan, he runs for Qatar. All the Qataris train elsewhere because you can fry an egg on a track there. It's easy to believe he happened to be in Addis at the same time by chance. And if the OP obviously did not even know his nationality/details AFTER the fact, why is it so hard to believe that Mo didn't, if all they were doing was running a few laps and going to lunch after?

He says he didn't train in ethiopia during those years (see his recent interview)

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6343609

Is Driuoch in that group during the interview? I just cringed seeing the group doing the mobot at the start...

sc42 wrote:

And if the OP obviously did not even know his nationality/details AFTER the fact, why is it so hard to believe that Mo didn't, if all they were doing was running a few laps and going to lunch after?

You haven't seen that lunch picture posted on this thread, have you?

No, but I did see it on the instagram thread with the training shot, with about 6-8 other guys at both the track and the restaurant. In interviews with Mo in Kenya many times over the years it's been clear that he often trains with a few guys who are around and good enough to do the workout, without them being 'a training group' under the same agent etc.

I certainly agree Mo should be fined for training with a doper, but I don't think this incident means much in terms of suggesting that Mo doped. If Mo was doping with that guy, then posting those pictures would be about as iogical as a murderer posting a bunch of photos of the person they were going to kill. Nobody is that stupid.

Top runners don't necessarily know much about other good runners who are not quite at the top, so it would not surprise me that Mo did not know Driouch's history. Anyone remember when Ritz broke the US 5000 record right behind Bekele? In the interviews afterwards it was clear that Bekele had no clue who Ritz was, even though they'd been in Olympic finals together.

Lost in Europe wrote:

Mo is an idiot- just look at how he acts.

he's not an idiot, he's just not smart - he certainly can't think a step ahead.

He has without question the stupidest twitter feed of all the pro runners I follow - mostly lame soccer tweets.

I'm not a suspicious man, but Mo and Abdi seem...seem...wrong

Tha boss wrote:

"First they made me king, then they made me Pope. Then they brought the rope"

Then they bought the dope

"Anyone remember when Ritz broke the US 5000 record right behind Bekele? In the interviews afterwards it was clear that Bekele had no clue who Ritz was, even though they'd been in Olympic finals together."

Did Bekele have lunch with Ritz?