Breaking News: Salazar and Mo Farah Split

Good luck to him!

Bizarre!!! wrote:

So a high profile figure on the IAAF anti doping panel's husband is now coaching an athlete at the centre of a long running drug investigation regarding his previous coach. Seriously you could not make this up! The common denominator in all of this is Nike and their overbearing presence in the sport.

+1 for this.

By the way, maybe I am missing something but doesn't the charming Mr Lough live in Monaco? I suppose you can hollow out a few books and send them over the channel.

Bit of a trip wrote:

Bizarre!!! wrote:

So a high profile figure on the IAAF anti doping panel's husband is now coaching an athlete at the centre of a long running drug investigation regarding his previous coach. Seriously you could not make this up! The common denominator in all of this is Nike and their overbearing presence in the sport.

+1 for this.

By the way, maybe I am missing something but doesn't the charming Mr Lough live in Monaco? I suppose you can hollow out a few books and send them over the channel.

He does. Legal tax evasion.

Surely, you jest. wrote:

no evidence wrote:

That explains why Gary aka rekrunnr is so active again on letsrun.

There's no way that rekrunner is Gary Lough. Though, I suppose that anything is possible in this day and age.

I wondered about this as there was whispers but my good friend Rekrunner claims to have 15 & 10/12 year old daughters while Paula has a 10 year old daughter and a 7 year old son.

xcvxcvxcv wrote:

Because Paula's coach could not possibly be involved in doping.

How dare you besmirch the name of Paula Radcliffe!

Just because she cannot possibly keep the lies straight and has the IAAF making stuff up for her erratic and extraordinary performances doesn't mean she's doping.

Just like Lance, she's never tested positive, so she never doped.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

xcvxcvxcv wrote:

Because Paula's coach could not possibly be involved in doping.

How dare you besmirch the name of Paula Radcliffe!

Just because she cannot possibly keep the lies straight and has the IAAF making stuff up for her erratic and extraordinary performances doesn't mean she's doping.

Just like Lance, she's never tested positive, so she never doped.

^This! Also, UKAD also didn't want to ban her, and they are really tough and against doping, which proves her cleanliness.

By going to the UK now, he insures that he'll be apart from the family for months until they can join him and then he's headed to Kenya/Ethiopia for training anyway. Being in England is better for him in terms of being close to the majority of lucrative road races, closer to the time zone of where he trains, and near his fan base. Even if he doesn't nail a marathon, he should be able to pick up major cash from half marathons, 15k's, and 10k's.

I used to run with Gary Lough, back twenty some years ago when he was at Iowa State. Nice guy.

WIth all his "ums" and uhhs", he is like a caricature of a guilty-as-F weasel.

The upside of this breakup is that when they get back together, the sex will be amazing!

Karl Hungus wrote:

The upside of this breakup is that when they get back together, the sex will be amazing!

???⤴

From sharing hot tubs to barely speaking, Mo and galen, what went wrong?

Hopefully uncle Jama was a shoulder to cry on until Uncle Gary and Paula came along.

Will Mo be seeking comfort with Dr Wolfhart in Germany now too?

Yeah, the Gary joke is always funny every time. I've already lost two screens. I said I had two daughters 15 and 10/12? I do have an older son, and a younger daughter. But wonder no more. I'm an American living in Europe (not Monaco -- but I've been there and gambled with French Francs), with a Macbook that sometimes auto-corrects to British spellings if I don't go back and fix it. My coaching these days is now limited to me. My son showed interest once, but then lost it, preferring soccer and tennis. Sorry for Mo, I'm not taking on any new athletes, so he had to settle for Gary.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Surely, you jest. wrote:

There's no way that rekrunner is Gary Lough. Though, I suppose that anything is possible in this day and age.

I wondered about this as there was whispers but my good friend Rekrunner claims to have 15 & 10/12 year old daughters while Paula has a 10 year old daughter and a 7 year old son.

Are you sure it isn't all made up? Is Paula on an IAAF anti-doping panel too? Because I'm only aware that she was elected vice-chairwoman of the IAAF athletes' commission. Regarding Salazar's "long running" investigation, it will only stop if they actually find something, and find him guilty. Last statement I heard from USADA was that they were still trying to determine if an anti-doping violation occurred. And the leak looks like their best lead are infusions which exceeded 50ml within a 6 hour limit, something WADA just relaxed to 100ml in 12 hours to make these kinds of infusions easier.

Bizarre!!! wrote:

So a high profile figure on the IAAF anti doping panel's husband is now coaching an athlete at the centre of a long running drug investigation regarding his previous coach. Seriously you could not make this up! The common denominator in all of this is Nike and their overbearing presence in the sport.

I guess Farah was speaking for himself from his own personal experience, that he had no reason to doubt, despite "plenty of allegations", because he is able to talk firsthand to the accused, and could ask for proof that has not been made public. The leaked USADA document looked like USADA was desperate to find something.

casual obsever wrote:

Cool statement from Mo on your homepage, rojo, well done:

"If Alberto had crossed the line I would be out the door but USADA (US Anti Doping) has not charged him with anything. If I had ever had any reason to doubt Alberto, I would not have stood by him all this time."

No reason to even doubt Alberto because he hasn't been charged (yet)? Plenty of allegations, but no reason to doubt Alberto. ROFL.

Like he was 'out the door' when Jama was linked to doping and busted?

"Good for Lough getting another big gig."

As a coach? Since when was he a coach? I thought Paula was coached by alex Stanton(?) throughout her career.

Mr Paula acts as an agent to some athletes, although there was some fuss last year about him not being acredited or something yet spending a lot of time hanging around British athletes at altitude camps etc.

Brianruns10 wrote:

It is axiomatic that when you begin a statement denying something is the cause of you breaking ties with a person or group, that something IS in fact the cause of you breaking ties with that person or group.

And you know this conclusively how?

It's sinful that people don't mind being associated with a drug cheat.