Farah sounds very genuine. He is clearly speaking off the cuff, no speaking points, no notes. He is actually willing to sit down for a real interview.
Same with Goucher.
Salazar and Rupp, not so much. Just stage-managed PR moments reciting prepared lines.
The big question I can't answer is WHY? Is there something that only Rupp and Salazar are in on?
Farah was carefully prepped by the Freud PR firm. The responses to questions to Mo were attributed to Freud. Farah's giveaway that he was uncomfortable were his numerous looks to the side at key-points of his talk.
Farah also says: "If I am a cheat prove I am a cheat, or leave me alone. Prove I am crossing the line." Avoiding crossing the line is what gray-zone is all about.
Rupp is about as genuine as a $3 bill. He has virtually been engineered in a lab since childhood with every possible medication, supplement, altitude tents, IVs, elite coaching methods, and whatever else. Even if none of it turns out to ever have broken an actual rule, it is so far removed from what most runners - even good ones, even very good ones - have access to that it's hard to ever apply the word "genuine" to it.
But hey, 26:44.
It's just too bad the Nike/Salazar machine picked this sickly, asthmatic kid with a dysfunctional thyroid to be their lab rat. Just think what the AR - nay, WR - could be if a healthy kid were given all those advantages.
Who cares they're nearly all doped at that level.
Even Wejo happily paced a female doper to world record. Radcliffe had the doctors believe me.
The whole sport is lost at that level. And it has been for a long time. It's basically an arms race.
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Even Wejo happily paced a female doper to world record. Radcliffe had the doctors believe me.
The whole sport is lost at that level. And it has been for a long time. It's basically an arms race.
A female being paced by a male is cheating in of itself.
Female coach having affair with male runner. Should I report it?
Post about women banditing Brooklyn half marathon going viral on X
If Daniel's and Pfitz are outdated..then where do I look for modern training plans?
Colin Sahlman runs 1:45 and Nico Young runs 1:47 in the 800m tonight at the Desert Heat Classic