Mo Farah's charity was a fraud- spent more on glitzy balls than helping African Children

ukathleticscoach wrote:

doot doot wrote:

Spent most of his career as an "also ran."

Nothing wrong with "sit n kick" as one of several tactics... Mo's a one trick pony.

This isn't Twitter.

Going from 3 laps out is not kicking so he has 2 tricks. The rest have one which they are 2nd best at.

Bekele waited for El G to outkick him why didn't he just run WR pace and burn him off. He gave Lagat the same chance and only just came out on top. What happened to his front running at WR pace there

Everyone here also likes to forget the 10k in Beijing where he won in 27:01 and it was hot and humid. The opening kilometre was slow then a very fair pace was run for the rest of the race. Farah does have one tactic but it isn't AIT and kick; it is to do the minimum to win. If his competitors ran faster, then he would still just hang in until he final 100m. This is what he did as Pre also winning in 26:53.

Maybe people here will start to realise he is just much better than his competition, like Kiprop in the 1500m, and doesn't need to exert himself to win. If Kamworor runs 26:40 in Rio I think Farah will just hang on and pass him to win in a PB. There is nobody fast enough to shake off Farah. You need 26:30 in my opinion.

We know now that beating Farah in a final 400m sprint is unlikely unless he gets boxed in, but how fast do his competititors need to run to kill off Farah before the end? If anyone here thinks the answer is just quicker than Farah's 26:46 PB then you are a fool. Same goes for the 5k, 12:52 does not beat Farah.

Amen brother

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Going from 3 laps out is not kicking so he has 2 tricks. The rest have one which they are 2nd best at.

Bekele waited for El G to outkick him why didn't he just run WR pace and burn him off. He gave Lagat the same chance and only just came out on top. What happened to his front running at WR pace there

Going from 3 laps out is still sit and kick. Even if it wasn't, that was ONE time. That's not a variety of tactics.

Bekele liked to compete. He wasn't a coward. He was such a competitor that he would challenge people at their own strengths (Lagat and El G's speed). That takes balls.

odok wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Going from 3 laps out is not kicking so he has 2 tricks. The rest have one which they are 2nd best at.

Bekele waited for El G to outkick him why didn't he just run WR pace and burn him off. He gave Lagat the same chance and only just came out on top. What happened to his front running at WR pace there

Going from 3 laps out is still sit and kick. Even if it wasn't, that was ONE time. That's not a variety of tactics.

Bekele liked to compete. He wasn't a coward. He was such a competitor that he would challenge people at their own strengths (Lagat and El G's speed). That takes balls.

Balls don't win medals. Smarts do. Tactical ability is about playing to your own strengths. If Farah thought he would lose a race by taking it out early, being the pacemaker for everyone to feed off and pass in the final straight then he'd be an idiot to do it.

Write Off wrote:

Maths fail? wrote:

Article claims the charity spent £80k on a fundraising ball. Doesn't mention how much this ball made.

The article also says the Farah Foundation is giving £400k when it closes, to charity.

Giving to 'another' charity. Not giving money to the intended groups. What that means is 100% write off for Mo's charity, and added administration costs for the charity getting the money. Neat trick; doubling the cost of admin fees.

I think people are making too much of this. It's hard to run a small charity effectively unless you have a volunteer running it as you still have over head costs.

I'm glad they are dissolving and giving the £400k away now. instead of blowing more on overhead/parties. Wish they'd give some of it to the school for desks though.

Mo Farah shuts his charity after it spent more on marketing and a glitzy ball at exclusive club than on helping African children

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7181968/Mo-Farah-shuts-charity-after-it-spent-more-on-parties-and-marketing-than-helping-African-kids.html

The bottom line is that however he does it, he gets from the start line to the finish line faster than anyone else in the race. I believe that is what is knowing as "winning". He doesn't get a piggy back on Galen Rupp's shoulders, he doesn't grab the Segway from the cameraman and ride that instead of running. He runs the same distance as everyone else, and (since London 2012) he's done that smarter than anyone else, consistently.

If any of his rivals (and perhaps Kamworor is the one) wants to head out at 26:20 pace, let them. The last time anyone (anyone, this isn't just Mo) ran sub 26:40 was in 2006. In this current decade, only Bekele (2011), Rotich (2011) and Rupp (2014) have run faster than Mo (2011). If someone can run low 26:30s and destroy Mo, they'll deserve the title and the plaudits.

But there's no guarantee anybody will achieve that. No-one has shown the slightest hint of being in that good form, perhaps with the exception of Kamworor who *may* be able to time trial himself from the front perhaps with some teammate assistance.

But it's of no consequence - if GK does that, if Mo sticks on the back of that fast group and then Mo still comes across the line first, he'll still be derided as "not as good as Bekele", as someone who's late development can only be explained by PEDs in the NOP stable, as someone that enough LR posters seem to want to hate. And if GK wins that? He'll be a hero, without the hate that Mo seems to get. Not quite sure why...

It's difficult to know who I should hate the most. Dopey Mo or those dopey Kenyans?

rojo wrote:

Write Off wrote:

Giving to 'another' charity. Not giving money to the intended groups. What that means is 100% write off for Mo's charity, and added administration costs for the charity getting the money. Neat trick; doubling the cost of admin fees.

I think people are making too much of this. It's hard to run a small charity effectively unless you have a volunteer running it as you still have over head costs.

I'm glad they are dissolving and giving the £400k away now. instead of blowing more on overhead/parties. Wish they'd give some of it to the school for desks though.

Agreed with the last part. They should have given the money directly to schools for equipment. That said, it is still likely a lot of the money would have gone to other school purposes.

letsracer wrote:

he had the balls to let us know and shut it down instead of keeping it around like another komen

Did HE have the balls or did his top tier PR company tell him he needed to do it, against the wishes of people close to him?

Was the only donation from the charity really just a few pairs of socks? It's almost hilarious, if it weren't so sad.

I completely agree. I know of several 'non-profits' who accepted money as charity and it never saw the light of day. Ie. Scott Simmons & American Distance Running Project grant that went to fund his taproom in Colorado Springs! He's still operating under the guise of a non-profit and is a fraud.

Snake oil salesman.

Maths fail? wrote:

You've made that up too. Why do people like making stuff up here?

You don't get out much, do you? The skimming that takes place under the guise of a charity is pretty amazing.