I'm curious: in what way did you find the reality different from the media portrayal? Your experience was better or worse?
No edge to the question; just curiosity.
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[Other Sport] Sir Mo Farah
- Thread starter Thunder Bolt
- Start date
I'm curious: in what way did you find the reality different from the media portrayal? Your experience was better or worse?
No edge to the question; just curiosity.
Worse.
Thanks.
topbanana36
Well-known member
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,963
The point I was trying to make was that a number of people are saying they went to school with him before he was 12. Clearly he could have got his facts wrong but it does seem a bit odd.
I've no idea what his motivations are.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
Just watched it. Highly recommend.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Yes he is in touch with his mother, his brothers and the rest of his family. He is also in touch with the real Mo Farah. They know who the woman is who he stayed with but she refused to comment - she is the sister-in-law of the woman who ended up taking him in.
Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
- 7,374
That 'twin brother' is 6 years younger than him and, it would seem, not actually his brother at all. I guess from the details in that story, that he may be from the family that Mo was trafficked to.
jonny.rainbow
Well-known member
- Oct 29, 2005
- 6,847
On Sunday, Novak Djokovic said he remembered watching Pete Sampras win Wimbledon in 1992 and that was the reason he fell in love with tennis.
Agassi won Wimbledon that year.
People remember details incorrectly all the time. It doesn’t mean everything they are saying is untrue.
. . His mother was clear in saying she sent him to live with her brother and was never told he had gone to UK. . Here he is at end saying still does not know why or who sent him to UK and yet very strange no mention was made of any effort to contact her brother and family as they would have all the answers
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
- Thread starter
- #72
Mo’s twin brother is called Hassan, not Ahmed.It appears Hassan has never been to the U.K.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/mo-farahs-mum-explains-sent-27467839
Was he chuffed about the Knighthood?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The numbers he achieved once he began working with Salazar were suspicious.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-mo-farah-changed-account-to-us-investigators
When Farah was drug tested six days after the injections, on 17 April 2014, he did not record L-carnitine on his doping control form as he was required to do. The programme also revealed that a year later, when he was questioned by Usada officials in London for nearly five hours, he also initially denied receiving the supplement.
According to transcripts obtained by the BBC, Farah was asked by Usada’s investigators: “If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?”
Farah replied: “Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I’ve never taken L‑carnitine injections at all.”
He was then asked: “Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn’t recommended that you take L‑carnitine injections?”
Farah responded: “No, I’ve never taken L-carnitine injections.”
He was 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 replied: “No. No chance.”
While L-carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid, the World Anti-Doping Agency has strict rules governing its use – with a maximum of 50ml being allowed every six hours. Salazar was found guilty of two violations of these in respect of other people when he received a four-year doping ban in October.
Jessica Judd, who ran in the 5,000m at the 2019 world championships, said: ‘The amount of samples that athletes give and they won’t retest and use stupid excuses as to why [is] embarrassing.’
Jessica Judd savages Ukad over reluctance to release Mo Farah samples
According to Panorama, minutes after leaving the interview, Farah then met Fudge – who had been interviewed by Usada the day before – and told its investigators that he had got the L-carnitine from Switzerland from a contact of Salazar’s.
He then returned to the interview room as the investigators were packing up and gave a different account of his L-carnitine use. The transcript shows Farah telling Usada: “So I just wanted to come clean, sorry guys, and I did take it at the time and I thought I didn’t.”
The Usada investigator then says: “A few days before the race – with Alberto present and your doctor and Barry Fudge – and you’re telling us all about that now but you didn’t remember any of that when I kept asking you about this?”
Farah responds: “It all comes back for me, but at the time I didn’t remember.”
When questioned by the Times about the incident, Farah said he had initially forgotten about the injections and the name of the supplement before being reminded by Fudge.
“I finished the interview and then realised ‘shit’, I just remember having that injection,” he explained. “What was the name of it? L-carnitine. And I was like ‘shit’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-mo-farah-changed-account-to-us-investigators
When Farah was drug tested six days after the injections, on 17 April 2014, he did not record L-carnitine on his doping control form as he was required to do. The programme also revealed that a year later, when he was questioned by Usada officials in London for nearly five hours, he also initially denied receiving the supplement.
According to transcripts obtained by the BBC, Farah was asked by Usada’s investigators: “If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?”
Farah replied: “Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I’ve never taken L‑carnitine injections at all.”
He was then asked: “Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn’t recommended that you take L‑carnitine injections?”
Farah responded: “No, I’ve never taken L-carnitine injections.”
He was 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 replied: “No. No chance.”
While L-carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid, the World Anti-Doping Agency has strict rules governing its use – with a maximum of 50ml being allowed every six hours. Salazar was found guilty of two violations of these in respect of other people when he received a four-year doping ban in October.
Jessica Judd, who ran in the 5,000m at the 2019 world championships, said: ‘The amount of samples that athletes give and they won’t retest and use stupid excuses as to why [is] embarrassing.’
Jessica Judd savages Ukad over reluctance to release Mo Farah samples
According to Panorama, minutes after leaving the interview, Farah then met Fudge – who had been interviewed by Usada the day before – and told its investigators that he had got the L-carnitine from Switzerland from a contact of Salazar’s.
He then returned to the interview room as the investigators were packing up and gave a different account of his L-carnitine use. The transcript shows Farah telling Usada: “So I just wanted to come clean, sorry guys, and I did take it at the time and I thought I didn’t.”
The Usada investigator then says: “A few days before the race – with Alberto present and your doctor and Barry Fudge – and you’re telling us all about that now but you didn’t remember any of that when I kept asking you about this?”
Farah responds: “It all comes back for me, but at the time I didn’t remember.”
When questioned by the Times about the incident, Farah said he had initially forgotten about the injections and the name of the supplement before being reminded by Fudge.
“I finished the interview and then realised ‘shit’, I just remember having that injection,” he explained. “What was the name of it? L-carnitine. And I was like ‘shit’.”
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,963
I agree, the memory plays tricks on everyone. I remember Hertford Middle school though which was 3 years of my life (unlike Mo, I'm not sure anyone else would remember my unremarkable 3 years). I might struggle to name when Becker won the posh squash.
This story may well be true but the problem with all this is that in this current version of the truth everything in his autobiography about his childhood is a lie as well as the mis truths he has told about his dodgy coaches. That's before we get to failing to convince about things like taking 83 times the recommended dose of Vit D (USADA report). Given there are inconsistencies with this version of events it's not inconceivable that things might not be what they seem here either.
To be clear, Novak is also one of the biggest dicks in sport, this isn't a defence of him.
Thought program was fascinating but many unanswered questions. Why for example did he lose touch with Kinsi who it was clear looked after him so well for 8 years at such an important stage of his life. Kinsi knew woman who treated him as a slave but so little detail of her
But at least it brought some closure and answered a few questions that have been troubling the 'real' Mo Farah these past years. Not least why strangers kept knocking on his door unannounced and asking him to piss in a jam jar.
Soul Finger
Well-known member
- May 12, 2004
- 2,294
And yet people still vote for these absolute ****s.
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
You are the resurrected spirit of Oswald Moseley and I claim my £5
You are a piece of work
Weststander
Well-known member
It’s funny how questions are raised about Lewis Hamilton and now Mo Farah.
Oddball Britain.