Mo Farah worried about his brand?

Despite his bravado he's sh1tting bricks imo.

Agree he looked like a worried man.

I'd be worried if everytime i looked in the mirror i saw Achmed The Dead looking back at me..

Dropped out of today's diamond league meeting in Birmingham


Went from a half decent runner to world's best under Salazar....

Is Mo thinking he may have been micro-doped without him knowing?

The quorn mince adverts must pay well
Why would a second rate athlete who since joining salahzar has made astonishing improvements to become a double olympics champ be worried?

if justin gatlin and dwane chambers were coming on and saying this is nonsense ,then he would have reason to be worried.

bbc circling wagons around Mo

It was the BBC that effectively accused him. The sh1t will stick whatever happens now.
I think he should have run today and then told the BBC interviewer to fook off.

The career of Michelle Smith de Bruin, the Irish swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics, appeared to end in disgrace yesterday when swimming's world governing body banned her from competition for four years after finding that she had manipulated a drug test by spiking her urine sample with alcohol.

The ruling landed a shattering blow in Ireland, where de Bruin, who competed as Michelle Smith in the Atlanta Games, had become a heroine as the country's first woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Now she has become one of the most accomplished athletes to be banned in a drug scandal.


I remember Clinton supporting her for the Irish vote when he was running for president

The quorn mince adverts must pay well

Makes more money from the trousers

Can't believe anyone still believes the athletics myth

Project Oregons high altitude rooms and cryogenic chambers clearly show the days of training hard and  eating pasta/chicken  are long gone.

this fred is rascist - I have apologised for slavery - have any of you???

No i am not guilty of the sins of my father my forefathers or any politician.

Emperor  Zheng ?

'days of training hard and eating pasta/chicken  are long gone.'

He runs 100-120 miles a week.

I'd say he works pretty hard.

But he never gets tired

clare balding still taking credit for the mobot

how many families with children ripped off by the non show, should be given refunds imo.

guinness2dear   
07 Jun 15 00:35 
I'd be worried if everytime i looked in the mirror i saw Achmed The Dead looking back at me..

For those who have never seen it.

Achmed the dead terrorist.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpvvnOHC1U

how many families with children ripped off by the non show, should be given refunds imo.

I went to Perry Barr today and there was certainly a lot of traffic heading in the direction of the stadium. So yes, many people were going to be disappointed.

I would be more interested in the times he clocks a few months after the coach has gone. (if he goes)

I think mo is worried about that too, hence not wanting to get rid of him with all the allegations surrounding him.

Perry Barr
i'd rather go Sparkhill Park

Went to the Boars Head for lunch Capt'n, good range of food, all you can eat. Just at the back of Perry Park.
I would rather not go to Sparkhill Park thank you, been there, done that!

scared for life Fion grew up in Sparkhil they were going to hang me by my Will Hill tie one sat afternoon

Why, what were you doing?
I live just down the road in Hall Green and used to go to Sparkhill quite often to buy fruit and veg. Never had any problems from the "locals".

  I went to Perry Barr today and there was certainly a lot of traffic heading in the direction of the stadium. So yes, many people were going to be disappointed.

foinavon, i just thought that the event organisers might have given some sort of compo to the racegoers, who were mostly there to watch mo.

seems wrong to me.

1st lie


The double Olympic champion appeared to say that he found out about the allegations only “three to four days” before the airing of the BBC Panorama documentary in which Salazar was accused of plying the Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Galen Rupp with drugs. However, the Daily Telegraph has learnt that, while not being told full details of specific allegations, Farah was informed that Salazar may have committed doping offences when he was sent a letter four weeks before the programme aired.


Salazar and Rupp were also issued letters notifying them of drug offences at the same time.

One enormous cultural difference between Perry Barr and Sparkhill but while I'm not saying it I feel much safer in Sparkhill.

Farah is fooked now whatever evidence or refutation is produced. Many people have already made up their minds. If he wins in August they will say he's on drugs. If he doesn't win they'll say he's come off the drugs because of the allegations.

He's an athlete therefore his reputation is tarnished in many peoples eyes anyway.

Apparently he's gone from being 'half-decent' to the worlds best (implicitly because of drugs use0.

Whereas of course, if he'd come from nowhere and won everything immediately, that would have been 'because of drugs use' too.

Coe and Cram awaiting a 'robost' defence from their long friend Alberto (First name terms i see)

Salazar ran in the ING New York Marathon in 2006, at age 48, serving as a pacesetter for cyclist Lance Armstrong, who was attempting his first marathon. Salazar was primarily responsible for guiding Armstrong for the first 10 miles (16 km) of the race, while Joan Benoit Samuelson oversaw the next 10 miles (16 km), and Hicham El Guerrouj the final 6.2 miles (10.0 km). With their help, Armstrong met his goal of completing the race under three hours, finishing in 2:59:36.


How well did he get to know Lance Armstrong then?

starting to smell

In 1996, at the age of 37, as she qualified for the 5000 meters at the Atlanta Olympics, Decker became involved in controversy. A urine test taken in June at the Olympic Trials showed a testosterone to epitestosterone (T/E) ratio greater than the allowable maximum of six to one.[12] At the time of the positive test Decker was being coached by Alberto Salazar

Salazar will never really be able to prove a negative. He is not a doper. Mo has handled it badly should have dropped Salazar (pending the any evidence of either way coming forward) and ran on Sunday, hes just adding wood to the media fire at the moment

Athletics like most sports is very incestuous and particularly because of the club scene it's hard for anyone to operate under the radar. Whether or not Farrah was using drugs it would be unlikely that he was not aware of what his coach was up to.

I think theirs a code in athletic teams

if your caught-code of silence

it's about the money

Jamaica team has had plenty positives

Jun 8, 2015 -- 10:49AM, Angel Gabrial wrote:

Salazar ran in the ING New York Marathon in 2006, at age 48, serving as a pacesetter for cyclist Lance Armstrong, who was attempting his first marathon. Salazar was primarily responsible for guiding Armstrong for the first 10 miles (16 km) of the race, while Joan Benoit Samuelson oversaw the next 10 miles (16 km), and Hicham El Guerrouj the final 6.2 miles (10.0 km). With their help, Armstrong met his goal of completing the race under three hours, finishing in 2:59:36.How well did he get to know Lance Armstrong then?

I ran in that NY marathon in 2006.  Overtook Armstrong in the first mile (he started at the front), and managed to finish just over a minute in front of him.  Remember him saying afterwards on TV that it was harder than the hardest day he'd ever had in the Tour.  Was probably off the Contador cocktails that day

Farah's problem is that he has eroded a lot of good faith in him amongst athletes and fans.  People in the sport don't think he's a cheat, but that he is very badly advised and managed. Particularly in the vice-like grip that Nike have him, where like every other athlete they sponsor, they just make him toe the corporate line and sound detached from the sport (cf Tiger Wood's horribly stage-managed "apology" that made him sound like a corporate robot).  His tendency to drop out of events, only enter hand-picked canon-fodder races, plus his public row with Andy Vernon, didn't win him any friends.

I know the wife of someone senior at UK Athletics, who told me he never had any intention of attending the Commonwealth Games, but was happy to play along that he would whilst they marketed and sold the tickets on the back of his name (presumably for some reward), then he dropped out the day before the games started saying he wasn't fit enough to win.

he never had any intention of attending the Commonwealth Games

dont want to belittle your achievements Danno but Armstrong hadnt trained for the marathon hence why he said it was so hard. He's since gone on to run 2.46 after training for triathlons


I dont like Farah at all and have no idea why he is so adored.  No personality, Nike PR bore and general nobhead

Zazu - I know, but you've got to take these small victories when you can. I've done 2.44 this year so I've still got the better time and an equal number of Tour de France victories as of now too!!

Same amount of tour de France

If Farah is proven to be a juiced the Brits will no doubt have him down as a juiced up johnny foreigner

Kelly holmes how old was she when she won gold

Kelly Holmes also retired while peaking

So mo has lied already , I got slated on here 3 year ago by a few when I said he was juiced

kelly Holmes is she aClare Balding just noticed she used to be in the army

DANNO..how old are you?impressive times ,m8.
oi,u lot,stop having a po at our mo..a genuine brit
still can't find Mogadishu in the UK postcodes tho'..maybe i'm looking in the wrong places!

if I was juiced up steroids I could do the 100 metres in 5 mins

Mo Farah originally ran for ****** and Essex Beagles athletics club,

****** - the London borough we mustn't mention on here.

Just found you on power of 10 danno (how scaryily easy is stalking on the Internet!)

Did you only start running in 2006?

A sense of humour has returned to the forum..

Well done xmoneyx. Oh, and Danno..

Zazu - nah, been running since mid-90's but first mara in 2000 and first sub 3 in '06 (when Po10) started picking them up. Done about 50 marathons & 40-odd ultras. Still haven't taken any EPO yet. Didn't know how you'd get it until I saw it on that BBC doc

Johnny - 42 (as Zazu has discovered). Still knocking out PBs this year. Waiting for the BBC to pay me a visit!!

He needs to get a new doorbell