When Mo Farah was my age, all my PB's were better than his and I'm not very good.

Mohammaed

I will leave it at this, the British have complete controm of the sport right now.

Mo is their big star.

You think they will bust him?

No, he had his rise via doping, but they let him have it due to the decline of Bekele, theh needed a new star.

Ever since he burst out, I had my doubts, and I never liked him, but I remember the 2015 400m when he followed Ndiku's kick from 600m outs, and with 200 meters to go spead by Ndiku as if the previous 400m was just a jog. It was at that moment it was so painfully obvious he was doping. Don't get me wrong. The Ethopians and Kenyans definitely did and still do alot of doping, but their best are still huge natural talents. Any professional runner is (with the exception of Semenya) undoubtedly extremely talented, however, Farah is merely above average, not exceptional. Farahs talent stretches no more beyond his several 40th-20th places at the international stage back when Bekele was in his prime. Salazar and Aden hooked him up with some high class drugs, and made him into BBCs pet.

troll, only losers call it PB

He ran sub 14 while high school aged.

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

Soprano wrote:

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

So OP is not very good???

OP you can run 1:48 and 13:38? And Farah's 8:05 indoor 3k was when he was just 19.

Lying OP wrote:

Soprano wrote:

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

So OP is not very good???

OP you can run 1:48 and 13:38? And Farah's 8:05 indoor 3k was when he was just 19.

You can be as good as you like on the internet.

Maybe the question should be why you've been such a let-down as a senior?

All He Does Is Win wrote:

Lying OP wrote:

So OP is not very good???

OP you can run 1:48 and 13:38? And Farah's 8:05 indoor 3k was when he was just 19.

You can be as good as you like on the internet.

I ran a 1:39 800 on the information highway last night

Yeah...sure...right... aha. Get off the weed bro.

Farah's late career improvement is very suspicious, but I'm still calling BS on OPs claims. Outside of east Africans, how many 20 year olds can go 13:38? Surely it can't be more than a few dozen?

Mohamed Muktar Jama from GBR was 6th in the 3000m at world youth in 1999 (12 seconds behind Bekele who was 2nd, who himself was behind Pius Muli from Kenya. Sergio Sanchez was 16th).

Coincidently, Jama has the same birth date as Mo Farah.

Anyway, he was pretty good. Then, in his early/mid 20s, he became a B level international runner, like some of the luckiest youth runners in that race...

The rest is history.

Uejejsjjsjs wrote:

Mohamed Muktar Jama from GBR was 6th in the 3000m at world youth in 1999 (12 seconds behind Bekele who was 2nd, who himself was behind Pius Muli from Kenya. Sergio Sanchez was 16th).

Coincidently, Jama has the same birth date as Mo Farah.

Anyway, he was pretty good. Then, in his early/mid 20s, he became a B level international runner, like some of the luckiest youth runners in that race...

The rest is history.

Very well stated.

Soprano wrote:

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

Mo was always a good runner and super talented. What was his training like back then compared to with Salazar? I've heard him say he didn't train properly or eat right until he made the switch. Perhaps this is an exaggeration by Mo to explain his incredible jump in performance. I'd believe it though if there is proof that his training before Salazar was not up to scratch. There's a huge difference between training hard and training smart. For me, he is more likely to be clean than Bolt.

I had the honour to train with Mo a couple times back in 2008. We ran together in Flag with some other fast runners and college kids and for example we would get dropped back with some college girls at like 6:40 pace after a hard workout day. So unlike Salazar's training style he ran pretty easy on his normal days it seemed to me. For me this was perfectly ok, as it was my first altitude stint and I was just a 14ish 5k runner. But that's part of the reason why I hope he's clean. With faster and higher mileage of course you run faster races than when you jog around with the college girls and a slow, young Pikachu. I have to admit, it was nice w/ the girls... but I guess you better run 5:30ish miles like Salazar advises when you wanna be an Olympic champion, haha...

Popopopop wrote:

Soprano wrote:

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

Mo was always a good runner and super talented. What was his training like back then compared to with Salazar? I've heard him say he didn't train properly or eat right until he made the switch. Perhaps this is an exaggeration by Mo to explain his incredible jump in performance. I'd believe it though if there is proof that his training before Salazar was not up to scratch. There's a huge difference between training hard and training smart. For me, he is more likely to be clean than Bolt.

Ya, gotta agree here. There is a lot suspicion with Mo but I'd bet on him to be clean before Bolt. A lot of the pros and guys he's trained with in Flag seem to really like him and vouch for him - for whatever that's worth...

FYI: When you hear people talk about juice, they don't mean orange juice.

Soprano wrote:

Just so everyone is on the same page, these are Mo Farah's PBs in 2003 (when he was 20) according to Tilastopaja.org:

800: 1:48.69

1500: 3:43.17

3000: 8:05.58 (indoors)

5000: 13:38.41

I have no doubt whatsoever that Mo doped, but plenty of doubt that those are the OP's PRs.

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Mohammaed

Mohamed, fool.