UKAD is ready to fight any attempt by WADA to seize its stock of Sir Mo Farah’s urine and blood samples

Is anyone really surprised? This is the same UKAD that covered up the positive doping tests of Team Sky and Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins.

I don't understand - why is UKAD not releasing the samples to WADA for retesting? I would think releasing the samples would only help erase any suspicions surrounding Farah. What are they worried about?

Something I don't understand here and maybe someone can explain it to me. If UKAD doesn't want to release Farah's samples, then why did RUSADA release all those samples of their athletes that are currently being retested with many coming back positive? These Russian samples are from Daegu & the London Olympics - so is that a different situation because testing is done at Olympic & WC events by WADA? If that's the case, wouldn't WADA have Farah's samples stored from both Dague & London?

This is most confusing wrote:

Something I don't understand here and maybe someone can explain it to me. If UKAD doesn't want to release Farah's samples, then why did RUSADA release all those samples of their athletes that are currently being retested with many coming back positive? These Russian samples are from Daegu & the London Olympics - so is that a different situation because testing is done at Olympic & WC events by WADA? If that's the case, wouldn't WADA have Farah's samples stored from both Dague & London?

The article doesn't clarify what the samples are but I suspect they want to test the Out Of Competition samples. They should already have access to Olympic and World Championship samples.

The chief executive of Ukad, Nicole Sapstead, said she would block the release of samples stored for future retesting unless there was “credible evidence” to suggest they contained banned substances.

What, like his coach being banned for drug offences?

His samples are the credible evidence for christ's sake. UKAD are terrified that they might come back with anomalies or positive results. They have built their reputation vicariously on Farah's success and couldn't cope with the damage done if the glass tower they have perched on comes crashing down around them. Their holier-than-thou moralising over Russia, Salazar, etc would simply prove their rank hypocrisy.

Nicole Sapstead should be ashamed of herself. Anyone working in the sports doping industry should have a responsibility that supports the fact that no individual can be worth more than the sport. Armstrong proved that.

Shoe must be joking wrote:

The chief executive of Ukad, Nicole Sapstead, said she would block the release of samples stored for future retesting unless there was “credible evidence” to suggest they contained banned substances.

What, like his coach being banned for drug offences?

His samples are the credible evidence for christ's sake. UKAD are terrified that they might come back with anomalies or positive results. They have built their reputation vicariously on Farah's success and couldn't cope with the damage done if the glass tower they have perched on comes crashing down around them. Their holier-than-thou moralising over Russia, Salazar, etc would simply prove their rank hypocrisy.

Nicole Sapstead should be ashamed of herself. Anyone working in the sports doping industry should have a responsibility that supports the fact that no individual can be worth more than the sport. Armstrong proved that.

It is more than just UKAD. It is the whole of Great Britain. A dirty sample and/or anomoly would undermine the whole Knighthood system. The British Govt. is pulling the strings on this one.

Nah.

The establishment would love to revoke his knighthood. It must have been pretty sickening for them to actually have to give it out.

Hmm... remember this? ?

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9470331

The only reason for UKAD to not release the samples is if they know/highly suspect that Doorbell Mo will test positive.

LoneStarXC wrote:

Hmm... remember this? ?

The only reason for UKAD to not release the samples is if they know/highly suspect that Doorbell Mo will test positive.

+1

Remember Farah on the likely doping list? Sounded like three samples in 2016 alone that raised suspicion.

Lol ?

British Are Dirty wrote:

Is anyone really surprised? This is the same UKAD that covered up the positive doping tests of Team Sky and Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins.

With a net haul of zero, UKAD is still more trusted on this site than ADAK, the best performing national anti-doping agency in the world right now.

El Keniano wrote:

British Are Dirty wrote:

Is anyone really surprised? This is the same UKAD that covered up the positive doping tests of Team Sky and Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins.

With a net haul of zero, UKAD is still more trusted on this site than ADAK, the best performing national anti-doping agency in the world right now.

Yeah, and Russia is second, and Morocco is third.

Especially when you consider the tea money conversion rate.

As for UKAD and Bradley Wiggins, they couldn't find the parcel and Sky didn't keep their medical records. The government has called for UKAD to be given more powers. They did the best they could. And nobody is claiming that the package contained EPO or anything other than possibly another 'grey area' TUE medication.

In Kenya, and in fact most countries, they would never have even bothered investigating it.

WADA should threaten to suspend UK from world championship and olympics of all sports until the UK agency give the samples of Mo Farah.

This kind of cover up can't be accepted.

This is why the out and out condemnations by Brits of foreign nationals are so disingenuous. When it comes to your own country, doping is condoned and covered up. There were no real investigations. Preventing WADA from re-testing British samples just shows that the the British doping protection agency is nothing but a fraud.

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I don't understand - why is UKAD not releasing the samples to WADA for retesting? I would think releasing the samples would only help erase any suspicions surrounding Farah. What are they worried about?

The new testing is much better, and able to pick up smaller doses taken. UKAD and Duh Mobot cannot claim they were clean when tested years ago, so no new testing. But, the WADA rules do allow for retesting, and a ban can be imposed and made retroactive. Ask Lance A. about how that works.

retroactive wrote:

The new testing is much better, and able to pick up smaller doses taken. UKAD and Duh Mobot cannot claim they were clean when tested years ago, so no new testing. But, the WADA rules do allow for retesting, and a ban can be imposed and made retroactive. Ask Lance A. about how that works.

I bet you the UKAD already tampered with Mo Farah's samples to make sure that WADA cannot ever test them. This makes the Kenyans look like saints.

Doorbell mo is a doping cheater. That is a fact and anyone who is honest and intelligent knows this. Little lord coe has been driving the brit state sponsored doping program and will fight to the death to keep the guilty parties from being banned.

This is a national image issue. Britain is a third world country which is desperate to take the mind of the population away from its miseries. The entire brit Olympic team and cycling teams are filthy. They will never give up the doping cheaters bobblehead paula, doorbell mo, froome, wiggins, and the various brits who dubiously come out of nowhere to win Olympic medals.

I think it's more than just Mo. If the pattern is similar to cycling we could be talking about all their best (mediocre as they may be).

Mo just got lucky that UKAD was so naive in 2011/12: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/mo-farah/11683785/Mo-Farah-explanation-for-missing-drugs-test-called-into-question.html

director of legal Graham Arthur said:

"They include ringing the doorbell every 10-15 minutes or so, knocking and staying there for the full hour. We often ask them to stay a little bit past the hour in order as well."

"A missed test doesn’t mean that somebody has deliberately not opened the door, or has hidden in the bathroom for an hour," Arthur added. " If we thought that had happened, we would take action against them for evasion and ban them for trying to hide from the testers."

In other words, the Mo show would never have started if UKAD wouldn't have "trusted" him...

Mo Farah is UK Athletics. He’s the reason they have jobs and and funding. Without him, athletics in the U.K. becomes recreational, just a tier above hopscotch.