Mo Farah coach used prohibited drug infusions: Newspaper

TIL Desk Sports/ Alberto Salazar, the coach of Britain’s Olympic champion Mo Farah, has been accused of using prohibited infusions of supplements to improve the performance of his runners, a news paper reported citing a leaked United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report.

The British newspaper said the 2016 report also accused Salazar of abusing prescription medicines for his athletes at the Nike training centre in Oregon. Attempts by Reuters to reach Salazar for comment were unsuccessful. Salazar issued a lengthy and detailed denial of similar allegations in 2015.

Farah said in a statement on Sunday that he is “a clean athlete who has never broken the rules in regards to substances, methods or dosages.” Farah, who last year became only the second man to retain the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000-metre titles, accused the newspaper of using his profile to make “the story more interesting”. “If USADA or any other anti-doping body has evidence of wrongdoing they should publish it and take action rather than allow the media to be judge and jury,” he added.