Farah had been reluctant to criticize Salazar in Chicago but went further with the BBC today.
"Had I had known the news, what Salazar did, it's taken four years, had I known that sooner I would have been the first one out," Farah, 36, said.
"That's the bit that's kind of annoying, I wish I'd known quicker.
"I haven't been part of Salazar for the last two years and I believe me and my coach Gary Lough are going to go out there and do the best that we can."
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/51054440
This dance between Farah and the media is absurd. It seems like grandstanding from both sides. If I was the media, I'd ask a followup and ask Farah to explain what did Salazar actually do that so troubles you now.
Remember, Salazar wasn't banned for doping his athletes.
If I was Farah, i'd take the Hasay approach and say something like this. "I'm not ashamed to say I was coached by Alberto Salazar. He coached me to greatness and multiple gold medals. He was obsessed with winning and was a great help to my career. He was someone that was looking for every legal way to make us faster. In the end, they said the violated the rules but I'm not ashamed to have worked for a coach that was testing to see if a legal supplement might make us way faster or to see if someone might be able to sabotage our drug tests. I'm just sorry that he didn't carry out those tests in a technically legal way."
Instead, Farah, who has associated with both Salazar and Aden, acts like he's some choir boy and it comes off as disingenuous.
Mo Farah throws Salazar under the bus - "Had I had known.. what Salazar did.. sooner I would have been the first one out"
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Farah has a legacy to protect, and as such, I wouldn't trust a single word that he says regarding PEDs or grey areas.
Salazar gets banned, Olympics getting closer? Gotta muddy the waters. Lance would do the same.
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Farah knew about all of the specific allegations and likely himself had a hand in it. He's simply not intelligent enough or has no self awareness to realize how bad he looks making these comments and the situation as a whole. I'm glad his retirement is rapidly approaching.
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Nah man he's like Gatlin and will run WL times forever just like Gatlin...
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I’d place a bet that Mo is shadier than Galen if there was a way to measure inherent ‘shadiness.’
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Aden and Lough are shadier than Salazar
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Ahh the good old "crooks code of ethics" - like the Mafia - you are all best buddies and have each others backs until the operation gets stung then it's every man for himself.
This is about the least surprising development in this saga really - Mo Farah throwing somebody under the bus - the same guy that runs a ramshackle "charitable trust" in the UK in order to circumvent all sorts of fiscal responsibility. The modern day Somalian Sopranos.
Put it this way, I think I would trust Bernie Madoff with a dollar bill more than I would trust Mohammed Farah - same goes for anything that comes out of his mouth -
It had been known for years that Sleazy Sal was sketchy... the first Propublica article dropped in 2015. If Doorbell Mo really cared about not being associated with a questionable coach, he could have left then. But, then again, he worked with Aden as well.
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I think what Farrah was getting at was that he expected Salazar to be much dirtier and provide more “supplements”. Had he known the worst thing he would do is rub some testosterone cream on his kids, he would have been out much sooner.
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He better shut up ... Farah's comeback reminds me of Lance's greediness and invincibility attitude aka 2.0 comeback. It didn't end well.
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LoneStarXC wrote:
It had been known for years that Sleazy Sal was sketchy... the first Propublica article dropped in 2015. If Doorbell Mo really cared about not being associated with a questionable coach, he could have left then. But, then again, he worked with Aden as well.
ok, salazar is under the microscope.
but most of the coaches out there are either criminally blind to what their athletes are doing or are involved in the PED business.
just go down the medal lists and look at the coaches.
then you got your list of prime suspects.
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Without enlisting in Salazar's Cult, no one would have ever heard of Mo Farah.
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Without enlisting in Salazar's Cult, no one would have ever heard of Mo Farah.
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Farah owes his success to dope , pure and simple .
british imperialism got him to oregon and the best dope of era .
but as a sir now wont go near him and will get the best of press to cover tracks.
The brits are absolute filthy for past decade with
The speed peptide IGF-1 lr3 being the base of many of their starlets
from london 2012 to saracens to cycling to other former empire countries
like jamaica and south africa in athletics .
Doping whole teams with Leicester fc in football doing the impossible and winning league
but if know how done then not so .
if dont remember they were 15 points from survival one year to 15 points at top the next
with almost same squad , this doesnt happen in top sports without shenanigans.
just look at bayern and the german team that beat brazil in 2014
all thanks to a certain team doctor and doctor to stars .
now we have liverpool doing same as leicester after their project was scrapped .
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aduck2022 wrote:
Farah owes his success to dope , pure and simple .british imperialism got him to oregon and the best dope of era . but as a sir now wont go near him and will get the best of press to cover tracks.The brits are absolute filthy for past decade with The speed peptide IGF-1 lr3 being the base of many of their starletsfrom london 2012 to saracens to cycling to other former empire countrieslike jamaica and south africa in athletics .Doping whole teams with Leicester fc in football doing the impossible and winning leaguebut if know how done then not so .if dont remember they were 15 points from survival one year to 15 points at top the nextwith almost same squad , this doesnt happen in top sports without shenanigans.just look at bayern and the german team that beat brazil in 2014all thanks to a certain team doctor and doctor to stars .now we have liverpool doing same as leicester after their project was scrapped .the brits are as filthy but liverpool fc is not very english anyway .
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Farah is a joke.
He was a journeyman for all his career, then suddenly, at age 28, start to win everything.
He was getting destroyed by the fiel before 2011, where he joined Salazar at NOP. He is the Lance Armstrong of distance running, a pure product of industrial doping.
Just look at the 2009 final championship, a slow race, at the last lap, he just explose and disappear far far away. He then developped an extraordinary kick out of nowhere. -
OP took a sound bite from the whole quote and now it's out of context. Whole quote was:
"Had I had known the news, what Salazar did, it's taken four years, had I known that sooner I would have been the first one out .... there in Houston, getting those infusions, then back on the massage table getting my daily massages from Salazar." -
It's really amazing that Mo Farah can run at all, let alone run fast, without a backbone. Truly amazing.
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He's saying that because his sponsors told him to finally say something about it. It's no wonder it's been a almost two months and he just spoke about it. Perhaps Salazar is settled in after the scandal and this is okay between the two of them now.
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Anyone else find it odd that we all seemed to know Salazar was pushing the boundaries, but Mo had no clue?
