Chicago (AFP)
"I did not do anything wrong": the four-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion (5,000 and 10,000 m) British Mo Farah, vehemently denied Friday receiving any doping product while he was a member of the Oregon Project.
This high-level athletic training group, which Farah competed in from 2011 to 2017, was dismantled Friday by Nike, who funded him after last week's suspension of his flagship coach, American Alberto Salazar, for "incitement" to doping.
"I've never been given anything," Farah said Friday at a press conference two days before the Chicago Marathon he is holding.
"As I said before, there are no charges against me, I have not done anything wrong, the accusations, let it be clear, only concern Alberto Salazar," said Farah, regretting to see his name associated with this case and that all the questions put to him relate to that.
Salazar, 61, was suspended for 4 years by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada). He is accused in particular of "organization and incitement to prohibited doping conduct" and of testosterone trafficking, as well as of injections to his amino acid athletes L-carnitine (a complement) beyond the authorized doses. The coach denies his accusations.
On October 1, Mo Farah said he was "relieved" that Usada "has completed its investigation of Alberto Salazar (...) I left the Nike Oregon Project in 2017 but I have always said that I do not had no tolerance towards those who break the rules where cross the line ".
He had also assured that his departure from the Oregon Project had nothing to do with the doping charges that had started in 2017 with the leak of a report of the Usada on the methods of Salazar in the press.
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