Athletics | Mo Farah Missed Drug Tests Before Olympics 2012
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And so it begins...
This is going to be horrible if/when it turns out the way I have a feeling that it will.
This is going to be horrible if/when it turns out the way I have a feeling that it will.
Everyone's juicing.
If Bolt ever gets done, athletics might as well just give up.
The media have been fiending for something like this on Mo since the Salazar claims came out.
Won't change the fact that he has serious explaining to do now. The doorbell excuse is lame and was most likely rightly dismissed.
Why was he able to compete if he had missed drug tests?
Seems like you can miss up to three.
Aa far as I'm aware you can miss a max of 2 in a 12 month timescale
but if you are clean , why would you miss any test ?
Not that I saying Mo is not clean, just why miss a test and with a lame excuse that you did not hear the door bell.
Not that I saying Mo is not clean, just why miss a test and with a lame excuse that you did not hear the door bell.
According to the panel when he appealed it, there is no good excuse. Intent doesn't matter, its the athlete's total obligation
Rio Ferdinand is confused by this post.
As someone who has missed deliveries after waiting in all day due to not hearing the doorbell I can empathise with him.
The headline makes it sound like he missed them right before the Olympics.
If he's missed them a year before I'm sure he'll have been tested closer to the event and passed?
If he's missed them a year before I'm sure he'll have been tested closer to the event and passed?
Yes, no doubt. I'm pretty sure he took the tests even after missing them, it's just the tabloids looking for stories.
So long as he was clean when he beat the cube.
What a joke Athletics is, the sport where doping is mostly widespread, along with cycling and yet you can miss 3 tests a year??
If it turns out he's been doping, which I expect he has, it should come as no surprise, back in the mid 00's he was only an average runner who would be just happy to make the final of the 5000 metres!
If it turns out he's been doping, which I expect he has, it should come as no surprise, back in the mid 00's he was only an average runner who would be just happy to make the final of the 5000 metres!
it's impossible to beat the cube without being totally off your tits on roids.
I just can't believe he would be doping. I don't know why, he just seems like an honest man to me. I'd be very disappointed if he wasn't clean.
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He probably missed them due to the way the testing works.
You have to nominate a time and a place every single day that you will be for months in advance.
They can turn up at any point at that time and if you are sleeping then you would still count as a missed test.
That's why you are allowed to miss a couple but I think you get a proper ban for missing three.
Dreading if this thread gets moved to current events.
You have to nominate a time and a place every single day that you will be for months in advance.
They can turn up at any point at that time and if you are sleeping then you would still count as a missed test.
That's why you are allowed to miss a couple but I think you get a proper ban for missing three.
Dreading if this thread gets moved to current events.
Same, I really really liked him. Would probably give up on athletics if he's found guilty.
But the thing is you haven't signed up to an agreement to be available at that time every day to accept that delivery. He has and he should always expect it. His argument about the doorbell was thrown out for that reason.
This basically.
I hope he's clean, otherwise it's going to kill British interest in Athletics which has been rejuvenated quite a bit after 2012.
Sadly, when you've got people like the twice banned Justin Gatlin sprinting faster than ever at the age of 33, it makes me wonder why they have an anti doping procedure at all!
Sadly, when you've got people like the twice banned Justin Gatlin sprinting faster than ever at the age of 33, it makes me wonder why they have an anti doping procedure at all!
Yes I did! They sent me a text and everything.
Was Rio clean though ?
cheers, did not know it worked like that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33182207
Sounds like the system is stupid before everyone shouts doping. Doesn't necessarily mean that. The system sounds beyond stupid. 'Please tell me where you will be at 1:30pm in 3 months time?'
Sounds like the system is stupid before everyone shouts doping. Doesn't necessarily mean that. The system sounds beyond stupid. 'Please tell me where you will be at 1:30pm in 3 months time?'
Farah's rapid rise and quicker times were somewhat unexpected at the time, that's all I'll say.
Yeah, I agree.
A lot of people don't even think Gatlin should be allowed to compete in athletics. The first one was under some strange circumstances to do with medication for ADHD or something and he managed to get the ban shortened.
So how legally binding and vital to your career was that text?
You ain't much fun at parties are you?
There needs to be longer bans for doping end of, 5 years at least, it needs to be not worth the risk. Gatlin is an absolute stain on the sport.
Class put down.
Heard David Walsh speaking about this earlier.
He didn't seem too bothered by the two missed tests, said that on their own they just mean we should be slightly more suspicious of Farah.
His general point was that because athletes can miss a couple of tests without repercussions (and because they know they can miss a couple of tests without repercussions) it isn't that uncommon for them to miss one or two and then become more careful at that point. He said that obviously we have no way of knowing if it was deliberate or not but that this isn't actually all that big a story and is only of minor interest compared the Salazar story itself.
In fact he seemed more critical of Farah for not doing more to distance himself from Salazar than for the actual missed tests.
He didn't seem too bothered by the two missed tests, said that on their own they just mean we should be slightly more suspicious of Farah.
His general point was that because athletes can miss a couple of tests without repercussions (and because they know they can miss a couple of tests without repercussions) it isn't that uncommon for them to miss one or two and then become more careful at that point. He said that obviously we have no way of knowing if it was deliberate or not but that this isn't actually all that big a story and is only of minor interest compared the Salazar story itself.
In fact he seemed more critical of Farah for not doing more to distance himself from Salazar than for the actual missed tests.
So no rules broken, no validated source of information, no real understanding of the process, and yet Mo's name is dragged through the mud. I'd like to see some clear evidence of wrongdoing before binning Mo, and British Athletics.
What a stupid system. Having to predict where you are going to be for 3 months in advance. Bugger that. They should just take the person's number and ring them to request the location and then go there straight away.
They need the element of surprise a little bit though http://www.news.com.au/sport/michel...story-never-told/story-fndpv1cc-1226431290041
There were rules broken and he lost an appeal against it too. It's all validated as it went through an appeals process. I like Mo and I hope he's not a doper but there's more than enough messing around here and association to at least have some doubts about him.
I'd say being called and asked where you are, with a drug test being taken as soon as the testers traveled across to you (30 minutes or so) would be plenty surprising. The same miss three issue would still be in place to cover times when the person isn't available. I doubt there is much you can do in 30 minutes to get whatever drugs out of your system, without creating another symptom that shows up instead.