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  • Given the testosterone experiments sound like working out microdosing I’m not inclined to believe the athletes too much.

    Farah isn’t really helping his case much. Press conference spent half of the time refusing to acknowledge Salazar was found guilty then saying he was “one of the worlds most tested athletes” (where have we heard that before) and that the media are only asking him about Salazar because they’re racist. He invoked Raheem Stirling and Lewis Hamilton (who I would agree have been treated badly by the press because of their race) but I don’t think that their cases apply for Farah at the mo.

  • They do indeed. In gel form, seems very plausible that it could be applied without the athlete knowing contents. Much like Salazar’s defence that they had been spiked. Conformity and obedience is pretty easily gained. Again I suspect this has been the case with Team Sky.

    Farah doesn’t strike me as the most intelligent, but there isn’t much he can really say that will please the public at this point.

    I’ve long suspected his performances aren’t legitimate which was only reinforced by people I’ve met in more informed circles.

  • So is the current assumption that he doped unwitting athletes for his own gain instead of finding morally bankrupt athletes who willingly dope? Not that it’s implausible, just find the shift interesting.

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