Mo Farah--never heard doorbell--pre 2012 Olympics

Farah is alleged to have claimed he did not hear the doorbell when testers arrived and his agent Ricky Simms submitted video evidence filmed inside the house in which he tried to show that the bell could not be heard from the bedroom.

Sounds iffy but tbf I've missed the phone ringing when wearing headphones.

Serena Williams once hid in her panic room when a tester arrived - claiming she thought he was an intruder.

Miss 3 tests in 12 months and you're sanctioned - but after that 12 months the counter resets to zero.

Have a family member who is single and sometimes I worry about them when they don't answer the door. Start off knocking the door, then giving it a bit of harder knock. Then go round the back and try the back door. Then I give the downstairs windows a bit of a knock. If that doesn't work I shout through the letter box. Last option is to get a few wee stones and throw them up against the bedroom window where he might be sleeping off a drinking binge.

Just knocking the front door of what is probably a big house Farah lives in seems a bit easy for the athlete to say he missed the call.

why did they not go back next day all the medals england won in last olmpics and a lot of them retired after very dodgy

I have no idea whether Mo is a drugs cheat or not, nor do I care too much, but the way that the press can just constantly imply that he is a cheat without presenting any actual evidence and then stick in one line that says something like 'although there is no suggestion that Mo cheated' really p1sses me off.

If they think he did it (which they clearly do), then how about they present some evidence, instead of just slandering him constantly

If they think he did it (which they clearly do), then how about they present some evidence, instead of just slandering him constantly

I agree with you Ted. That's the forums duty.

According to the rules as I understand them.
The athlete has to tell the authorities where they will be for hour on a certain day.

The excuse that the athlete could not hear the doorbell from the bedroom cannot be used as an excuse. Because the athlete is obliged to make themselves available for the test.

By not answering the doorbell the athlete did not make themselves available for the test. Even if they couldn't hear the doorbell from the bedroom.
That's their problem, they knew exactly which hour the testers would be be coming. 
I'd mark that down as a failure to give a sample.

If they think he did it (which they clearly do), then how about they present some evidence

Failing to give an drugs test twice is evidence, how much more do you need?

If that is right about the prior warning then you're spot on DrC it should be viewed as a refusal.

it's the Rio Ferdinand scenario but didn't he miss 3?

As far as I remember, Ferdinand was told at the training ground to give a sample, but left without doing so. I think it was viewed as deliberately avoiding the test rather than for any other reason.

Athletes are required to tell testers where they will be for 1 hour each day. They do not know which day they will be tested and I don't think they are given any notice.
If what the Mail says is right, as it appears, then yes, Farah missed 2 tests, but that's not enough to warrant a ban under current rules.

It's handy too for Mo to be able to fly 'home' to America when the heat is on locally.

It's probably a bigger story in America, given US athletes are involved, and that country still has journalists who investigate stuff rather than just reprinting press releases.

Anyone who knows anything about track and field would have been suspicious of Farah's progress post-2011, given his improved times and the way he suddenly was able to see out his races a thousand times better than he had before. It beggars belief that he could train under Salazar and not be aware of the rumours which have been circulating for decades about his coach, not only during his coaching career but also when he was competing.

It is unlikely, just as it was with Florence Griffiths and just as it was with Ben Johnson and Linford Christie, that an athlete who has consistently fallen short at the highest level can suddenly - at 28 - find the improvement necessary to dominate an ultra-competitive discipline.

post-code lottery winners always hear the doorbell

Each national federation should publish a database of all missed tests, with given excuses, just as it does all doping positives. I'll wager there isn't a top Jamaican sprinter alive today, or even a Russian, who hasn't availed of the two-strikes loophole at least once during their careers.

I quite often don't answer the door, whether I hear it or not. Makes my missus mad, especially when she's outside trying to get in.

jed.davison - agree with all your comments.

He seems a nice genuine guy, but Mo Farah appears to be saying and doing the wrong things since these recent  allegations about his coach. And now this dodgy claim that he never heard the doorbell when the testers arrived. As the Americans might say, it doesn't pass the smell test !  BUT there is still no actual evidence that he is a drug cheat, and I hope he is innocent, but things don't look good at the moment.

"That's their problem, they knew exactly which hour the testers would be be coming."

Surely that defeats the whole purpose of a drugs test to let them know when you will be coming ???

TELL DEL 18 Jun 15 12:11 
"That's their problem, they knew exactly which hour the testers would be be coming."

Surely that defeats the whole purpose of a drugs test to let them know when you will be coming ???


That's not how the system works. An athlete can theoretically be tested at any time of the year with no warning given whatsoever. A missed test can only be called if the athlete isn't available at the times he specifies he will be available, which covers just one hour in any given day.

The battery in his doorbell might have ran out.

^ Thanks for that explanation. So presumably when Mo Farah missed a test because he 'never heard the doorbell' he would have been tested anyway soon after missing that test (?) And if he was tested and was clear then this is a non-story.

When you finish lap 24 of a 10000m race I'm pretty sure he hears that bell to tell you you've got one circuit to go. There's nothing wrong with his hearing then, even in a noisy stadium.

he's bound to fail with that Quorn sh1t he eats

I wouldn't exactly say its a non-story, but yes it's very likely Farah would have been tested anyway soon afterwards and several times each year. I dont know why the UK athletics doesn't give out the information but it would help if they did. Galen Rupp, the athlete at the centre of this storm, was tested a total of 40 times between 2010-2012. He was, of course, clean each time.

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Christine Hugayogiguru another Newham resident, like Farah was, also missed 3 drug tests.

If they miss 3 they should be stood down for a year.

If they fail one, they should be banned for life.

Make you wonder how many world records are genuine drug free performances.

Make you wonder how many world records are genuine drug free performances.

None of them.

I doubt Roger Bannister took drugs

jed.davison makes the most valid point at 10.59. When you see an athlete improving dramatically it's time to watch out. Personally, I've lost all interest in athletics having been a big fan over the years.

I doubt Roger Bannister took drugs.

well he was a doctor.

meaning of the current world records I doubt any of them havecbeen achieved without doping.

You'd be surprised burton. Dave Scott who is probably the greatest iron man triathlete in history spent his best years pursuing a vegan diet as he was sure this was beneficial to his athletic performance.

Who can say about Farah but his story is quite a bit different from someone like Christie who defied all logic. Sprinters tend to peak very early usually in their early to mid 20's. Christie started beating the best in the world in his 30's after knocking on the door for many years. Longer distance runners tend to peak in their late 20's. Farah had been posting world class performances since his early 20's but had lacked consistency. Even so the list of his achievements is a long one prior to him starting with Salazar and his win in the world championships of 2011 came after he'd only been with Salazar a short time and probably too soon for any shennanigans to take effect.

In short it is quite feasible that his prior quest for gradual improvements such as the benefits over time of moving to train at altitude following some of his breakthrough performances in his early 20's are what account for him proving to be the athlete he is.

it will be a shame if he is dodgy, Somalia's name will be mud again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wXz2Wj-SQ

hand back the medals farah

They might need to check the ingredients in his quorn meals

Off to the Jeremy Kyle show with him. Let's have a look at the 'all-important lie detector results'!! 

He nees to get a new doorbell

For naydam.

Jerry - we asked you why you didn't answer the door bell?

You answered.............. ''I didn't hear it.''

The lie detector test said........


You were lying.

Groans from the audience.


Jerry - we asked you if you had even taken drugs?

You answered.............. ''no!''

The lie detector test said..........


You were lying again.

More groans from the audience.

Jerry - if fact you are a cheat and a liar aren't you?

Cheers from the audience.

And Mo storms out.

Shudda smashed his back door in ...

He needs to get a new doorbell

oh god even the mong has turned up now

TBF though Burton he has refrained from his normal vile rancid etc etc etc comments.
Still a prize cant though.

I wouldn't know what he has put aka

Tbf to Mo, it can't be easy to hear a doorbell when some twát has his hand stuck up yer arse..

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This makes me wonder if that spat he had with the white lad (yorkshireman ?) who doubted his nationality but wascalled jealous by the media was due to more than meets the eye now ?

If Mo's explanation was he didn't hear the doorbell how did he know the drug tester rang the doorbell and didn't knock at the door?

I knew the forums detectives would get to the bottom of this.
Nice work FR he'll find it hard to get around this.

Neither him or the testers own a mobile either I guess?

I don't like Farah, refugee who got all the good free stuff and as soon as he made money and had to pay taxed, fecked off abroad, so feck him, should have billed him on way out

I can't stand the guy. Snubbed Scotland and the Commonwealth Games.

Somalia not in Commonwealth innit

Isn't Somalia a suburb of Newham?

My daughter's crew has just taken apart the world's best time in their event in the heats of the Rowing World Cup in Varese, Italy.

I can categorically state, on my life, that neither she nor anyone else in the crew is on drugs - just hard work and fierce desire.

Be suspicious - but please don't be cynical. Most (I believe) do it clean.

Doping is only prevalent when there is big money at stake - the administrators of these sports aren't in the least bit interested in catching the cheats everyone's making too much money.

I wouldn't stake my life on it but I'd be very surprised if Paula Radcliffe didn't do what she did clean and she remains way ahead of others. Every so often you do get a Beamon, Coe, Johnson, Bolt et al who are way ahead of their competitors because they just have something more which isn't down to drugs.

Although come to think of it I do seem to recall she was rather dirty in Beijing.

I went out the back for a minute to feed the birds and a courier called.
I also backed Dejen Gebremeskel (2nd) in the 2012 Olympic 5000 metres.

Beamon did one freak jump at altitude never to be repeated. Coe's times weren't any better over 1500 than Ovett, Cram or Aouita. I'd be very surprised if Bolt was clean same goes for Johnson.

Mo is innocent, he is too embarrassed to admit that he thought it was the "Avon lady/person" and he didn't have the readies so he hid behind the curtains.

I have sympathy for Mo.  I don't hear my door bell ring.   But then it hasn't worked for ten years!!!

"Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative," Mo Farah

"Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case." Lance Armstrong

When the drugs testers arrive to do the test, if they can't contact the athlete, they have to try again every fifteen minutes until the hour is up.

Then as an athlete suggested on radio4 this morning they should come back the next day with the same procedure in the next window they were given for that day.
Then if that fails again on the third day.
If all three attempts to test them have failed then that should be classed as three refusals to give a sample and the ban should then be automatic.

That bloke said that the authorities haven't really got their hearts in stamping out drug taking and they could tighten up their testing a lot.

He added that in a lot of cases they might only test you once in a six month period.

I'm pretty sure Bolt is clean, he takes 36 strides to run 100m compared to most people taking 41.