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Mo Farah sounding less and less convincing with each passing day; he's of the Floyd Landis school of press conferences.

It would be very interesting to see his (apparently long) record of TUEs.
 
smutchin

smutchin

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Bizarrely, he now seems to be claiming he "has nothing to do with" the man who's been coaching him the past few years.

He's not doing a great job of looking innocent.
 
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resal

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Crackle said:
He surely can't be this naive.
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He isn't. He just thought the protection would be enough, all his mates there doing the commentaries and the BBC - that group - they did the same then as he is doing now. He never thought the BBC would go through with it.

Mark Daly the journalist who ran the story sent written confirmation about the allegations to Mo and Albert Salazar over a month ago. And now Mo wants people to believe he must rush back to the States to ask Alberto mano- to mano - some serious questions.

For goodness sake. All these people who want to believe in all these fairy stories.
 
400bhp

400bhp

Guru
Marmion said:
Mo Farah sounding less and less convincing with each passing day; he's of the Floyd Landis school of press conferences.

It would be very interesting to see his (apparently long) record of TUEs.
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Don't agree with you here. He's been sucked in to the media scrum. Rightly or wrongly he believed Salazar, as did [do] UK Athletics. I honestly don't think Farah is a cheat, and as I said earlier, I believe Salazar has used Rupp to raise his profile.

If UK Athletics had essentially vetted Salazar, why would Farah think twice that he was up to no good?
 
400bhp

400bhp

Guru
Marmion said:
An ethics approach is required, .
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How would you perceive this to work? Wouldn't you need rule based underlying it?

You can't ban people on supposition.

I have a principles based guidelines in my profession. It still has underlying rules, because there's legislation in some aspects of my professional work, however it gives the standards committee more scope to fine/ban/exclude people for "bringing the profession into disrepute".

Do you mean principles based rather than ethics base?

I had an interesting conversation a couple of hours ago - apparently you now have "opponents" rubbing creams (steroids etc) on their hands then shaking hands with athletes, in an effort to get them to test positive.:wacko::wacko:

I've said this many times, until the outcomes (likelihood and severity) of being caught doping outweighs the rewards, it will continue to be prevalent.
 
Pro Tour Punditry

Pro Tour Punditry

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400bhp said:
I have a principles based guidelines in my profession. It still has underlying rules.
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Yes, "ethics" or "principles", something that's not wholly reliant on science. And "rules" would be required. As I posted earlier, in my profession we sign up to abide by the code of ethics - the code is the rules.

Otherwise they'd be as well just appointing me and letting me do my witch-finder thing. Which I'd be happy enough to do, of course ;)
 
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