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As was/is Linford Christie
Doesn't look good for Mo 'Didn't Hear the Doorbell' Farah in a BBC Panaroma on Monday night :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/51591701
Below is a transcript from the programme from the BBC website...
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Farah was questioned by Usada officials for nearly five hours - and Panorama has obtained a transcript of that interview.
Asked specifically and multiple times whether he had an L-carnitine injection before the London Marathon, Farah repeatedly denied it.
He was asked: "If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?"
Farah said: "Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I've never taken L-carnitine injections at all."
He is then asked: "Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn't recommended that you take L-carnitine injections?"
Farah responds: "No, I've never taken L-carnitine injections."
He is asked again: "You're absolutely sure that you didn't have a doctor put a butterfly needle… into your arm… and inject L-carnitine a few days before the London marathon?"
Farah says: "No. No chance."
We have learned that minutes after the interview, Farah then met Fudge, who had been interviewed by Usada the day before.
Farah then rushed back in as the investigators were packing up. He changed his account.
Farah tells Usada: "So I just wanted to come clear, sorry guys, and I did take it at the time and I thought I didn't…"
He is asked: "So you received L-carnitine… before the London marathon?"
Farah answers: "Yeah."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/51591701
Below is a transcript from the programme from the BBC website...
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Farah was questioned by Usada officials for nearly five hours - and Panorama has obtained a transcript of that interview.
Asked specifically and multiple times whether he had an L-carnitine injection before the London Marathon, Farah repeatedly denied it.
He was asked: "If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?"
Farah said: "Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I've never taken L-carnitine injections at all."
He is then asked: "Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn't recommended that you take L-carnitine injections?"
Farah responds: "No, I've never taken L-carnitine injections."
He is asked again: "You're absolutely sure that you didn't have a doctor put a butterfly needle… into your arm… and inject L-carnitine a few days before the London marathon?"
Farah says: "No. No chance."
We have learned that minutes after the interview, Farah then met Fudge, who had been interviewed by Usada the day before.
Farah then rushed back in as the investigators were packing up. He changed his account.
Farah tells Usada: "So I just wanted to come clear, sorry guys, and I did take it at the time and I thought I didn't…"
He is asked: "So you received L-carnitine… before the London marathon?"
Farah answers: "Yeah."
He's a double mug.
L-carnitine does absolutely **** all. That and coenzyme Q. Loads of research on this, bigging it up, in my area, in the late 80s. Most of the work done in Italy, the home of medical Old Bollocks. And a craze for 'nutraceuticals' (pretending food is medicine).
Still.... mug.
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Oh come off it. Are you saying he was taking a banned drug that did "absolutely f**k all" ? Thats just a nonsense. Why the frig would ANY athlete do that ?
Farah has always stunk to me. His performances from a bang average athlete to the levels he achieved were off the scale unnatural.
Tokyohands
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I just think he's a bit of an attention seeking ****, that's all.
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I'll revise
L-canitine wasn't a banned drug. But the limit was no more than 50ml every six hours. There is no current evidence that "Sir Mo" exceeded this, other than the fact that he went from a bang average runner, to an elite marathon athlete within a few months. And the fact that his coach is now a convicted drugs cheat.
When do the Sport's Personality votes open up ?
L-canitine wasn't a banned drug. But the limit was no more than 50ml every six hours. There is no current evidence that "Sir Mo" exceeded this, other than the fact that he went from a bang average runner, to an elite marathon athlete within a few months. And the fact that his coach is now a convicted drugs cheat.
When do the Sport's Personality votes open up ?
When was the last time it did look good for someone getting Panoramaed?
"Hello, we're from Panorama and we have a few questions"
Has got to be right up there with
"Hello, my name's Jessica Fletcher, my car has broken down outside, can I come in and use your telephone".
(one for the kidz)
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I expect we will find he did more than take L carnitine.....
Some athletes will do anything to gain an advantage, including taking any suppplement a dodgy advisor pushes. In this case the dodgy advisor makes money without risk of physically harming the mug athlete by promoting a massively 'used' product that my old man would have called 'toot' (pronounced like 'put').
L carnitine in the body is nearly all made in the body. It becomes a possible issue only in malnutrition (or careless veganism) where the body is too feeble to synthesize it, which is why it is a 'conditionally essential nutrient'. The evidence that gorging on it will turn you into a superman is laughable. As an aside I remember Linus Pauling trashing his career by backing the 'vitamin C supplements cures cancer' movement.
But Ihave no arguments with you about Mo being a mug. I could have lived with the Mo miracle. After all, if we are looking for absurd late blooming, I give you Jamie Vardy. But I don't recall Vardy sneaking about the world with Salazar....
Worried Man Blues
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Never admit anything, even after conviction
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/57610421
So what do we make of Sir Mo Farah falling 19 seconds short of Olympic qualification for the 10,000 metres at the weekend ? No injuries, he offered no reasons or excuses.
He split from his coach, the convicted doping overlord cheat Alberto Salazar at the back end of 2017, having worked with him since 2011. Salazar's name has not been mentioned in any of the reports I've seen though, curiously.
So what do we make of Sir Mo Farah falling 19 seconds short of Olympic qualification for the 10,000 metres at the weekend ? No injuries, he offered no reasons or excuses.
He split from his coach, the convicted doping overlord cheat Alberto Salazar at the back end of 2017, having worked with him since 2011. Salazar's name has not been mentioned in any of the reports I've seen though, curiously.
Icy Gull
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He is 38, just saying
A combination of age and conditions. He ran half the race on his own, in windy and cold conditions.
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Fair point and very true. Although his times have dropped off a cliff, he's miles off.
Oh there's me thinking this had been bounced for other reasons.
As you were.
As you were.
OzMike
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This.
Greg Bobkin
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Plus he's been concentrating on marathon distance, which – although it is still the same sport of running – is a very different animal to 10k.
Also, it must be pretty hard to motivate yourself when you've achieved everything there is to achieve at a distance
KeegansHairPiece
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