Also responsible for one of the stupidest interviews I’ve ever heard defending Salazar the other day. Every bit as daft as he looks
Will Farah's knighthood be rescinded if he's implicated any further? Wiggins seems to have survived his doping scare
No idea. I don’t think the media care to be honest. He wasn’t anything special as a young athlete then went to work with a coach notorious for doping athletes & became the best in the world yet the media have barely questioned a thing even when he was been nominated & eventually won SPOTY despite him missing drug tests & giving suspicious samples that showed possible signs of blood doping. On Wiggins, I think we all know what he did was wrong but he did apply for a TUE beforehand & the governing body were satisfied he required one so whilst it was certainly suspicious by law it’d be pretty much impossible to strip him of anything as technically he hasn’t done anything wrong.
That’s not true, I’m sorry. Plenty in the media have raised the issue, including titles from across the political spectrum. It was a BBC panorama that first exposed him. If you’d have said the untouchable and Nike-sponsored circle that dominate athletics coverage (Cram, Radcliffe etc) at the BBC then I’d agree. But to say the media doesn’t care is lazy and incorrect.
I was just generalising, I should’ve said with the exception of Panorama & in particular Dan Roan. Most of the media don’t care. Panorama did an investigation but Sky Sports News, BBC news, ITV news, newspapers, Talksport, 5 Live & a lot of high profile journalists have barely covered it over the last few years. I think Matt Lawton’s about the only high profile journalist who wasn’t involved in Panorama who’s talked about it.
Farah did have an infusion of L-Carnitine a legal supplement but only 50ml can be administered in 6 hours. Farah admitted this and it was administered by a UKA Doctor who now works for the FA. The dosage wasn't recorded. He says the dosage administered to Farah wasn't recorded as he is a busy man. The Doctor that is. It is also on record that Salazar had Farah on prescription drugs he had no need of which could have been harmful to him. A UKA Doctor reported this and took him off them. Despite this UKA still had Salazar coaching Farah for a fee reported to be around £100K a year.
My intention was light hearted chat about dodgy 80s haircuts in 2019. Not sports politics. This escalated quickly.
