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Mo Farah missed two drugs tests a year before the London 2012 Olympics, Sportsmail can reveal.
At a time when the British distance runner’s controversial American coach Alberto Salazar and training partner Galen Rupp are facing a series of allegations, Farah’s own problems with the doping authorities reached a peak only a few months after he started training under Salazar in February 2011. The two missed tests put his participation at the 2012 Olympics, where he won two gold medals, at risk.
But the second test seems to have been scheduled once Farah started working with Salazar. It should have taken place at Farah’s home in Teddington, London, but the athlete appealed to the UK Anti-Doping Agency, claiming that he did not hear his doorbell.
At a time when the British distance runner’s controversial American coach Alberto Salazar and training partner Galen Rupp are facing a series of allegations, Farah’s own problems with the doping authorities reached a peak only a few months after he started training under Salazar in February 2011. The two missed tests put his participation at the 2012 Olympics, where he won two gold medals, at risk.
But the second test seems to have been scheduled once Farah started working with Salazar. It should have taken place at Farah’s home in Teddington, London, but the athlete appealed to the UK Anti-Doping Agency, claiming that he did not hear his doorbell.
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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.
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Sounds iffy but tbf I've missed the phone ringing when wearing headphones.
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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If that is right about the prior warning then you're spot on DrC it should be viewed as a refusal.
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it's the Rio Ferdinand scenario but didn't he miss 3?
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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. |
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It's handy too for Mo to be able to fly 'home' to America when the heat is on locally.
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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.
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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. |
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post-code lottery winners always hear the doorbell
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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"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 ??? |
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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. |
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The battery in his doorbell might have ran out.
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^ 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.
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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.
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he's bound to fail with that Quorn sh1t he eats
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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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Hey girl, what ya doin' down there?
Dancin' alone every night While I live right above you I can hear your music playin' I can feel your body swayin' One floor below me You don't even know me, I love you Oh, my darling, knock three times On the ceiling if you want me Twice on the pipe If the answer is no Tony Orlando And Dawn - Knock Three Times Lyrics | MetroLyrics twice on the pipe  |
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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. |
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Make you wonder how many world records are genuine drug free performances.
None of them. |
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I doubt Roger Bannister took drugs
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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it will be a shame if he is dodgy, Somalia's name will be mud again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wXz2Wj-SQ
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hand back the medals farah
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