Sabado Gigante wrote:
Metric Miler wrote:Extremely hilarious how Letsrun manages to find a way to channel it's hate for Mo Farah once again.
Farah, not involved at all in the story, is somehow being implicated for being within 100 miles from Aden at his time of arrest (despite being in a different country) and for having once apparently trained with Aden on (an) occasion.
Let me ask you this Letsrun, if Farah was indeed meeting Aden solely to use him as some kind of doping doctor, why on Earth would he hang out with Aden and his crew in public? Why wouldn't he just visit him in secret?
Another observation of this situation, where are the accusations of the athletes that have ACTUALLY worked with Aden in the past? Like Makhloufi? Or even his current athletes like Haroun?
This is a big story in it's own right, and attempts to pull Farah into it are weak at the moment. Why don't we add in that Aden and Rupp were probably both at World's last year, maybe they met up in Aden's room for some EPO shots!
Nonsense.
Huge holes in your starement here, MM; but major kudos for expressing readable and organized thought.
First off, the ENTIRE NOP is in Utah right now, yet Farah is completely solo in Font Romeu. FR is conveniently less than 2 hours drive from Aden's summer camp. That doesn't strike you as just a little odd?
Next, Farah has been with Aden on "more than just one occasion". In fact, he has trained with his group AT LEAST once a year since 2010, coincidentally(?) the beginning of his meteoric rise out of also ran status. If you spent 8 weeks (12 weeks twice) of the year with someone for 6 years, and that person was doping his athletes, think you'd know about it? So, let's just say for your argument's sake that he isn't doping. Is it ok to be with a group that does, or at least is trained by a coach that is now unequivocally a known doping coach?
Lastly, regarding Aden athletes that "he actually worked with in the past", look no further than Driouch (currently ending a 2 year ban):
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/02/translation-sp15-article-doping-hamza-driouch-blames-jama-aden/Or
Laila Traby, French athlete of Aden's positive for Epo, currently under suspension.
Firstly, thanks for your politeness.
It is entirely possible (and probable) that when Farah was altitute training in Ethiopia etc. he simply linked in with Aden's group at the track (there's only one main facility in Ethiopia) to have some fast runners to train with. This would involve no more than meeting up at the track, socialising with a few afterwards and then parting ways. I wouldn't expect him to know all the athlete's names, to go into their or Aden's rooms, or to trade doping tips.
Secondly, Farah trains with the NOP but he is a British athlete foremost. BA is running a training camp and has taken some athletes to Font Romeu ahead of Rio. I don't expect Farah has a lot of choice in whether he goes or not seeing as they give him £60k of funding each year as a 'podium level' athlete. If he wants to keep getting that, which he clearly does as he hasn't refused it as of yet, then he has to do what they say some of the year.
So yes, personally I do believe this to be a coincidence. Athletics is a small world. Many athletes can be found to have been training in the same place as Aden and some will currently be in Font Romeu. If anyone can be bothered to look. But they can't, and Farah is a big name, his activities are well publicised and he is disliked on the forums so it makes sense to leave the research there.
