British Olympic winner Mo Farah is reportedly supposed to have missed two drug tests before he went on to become a double gold medallist at the 2012 London Olympics.
According to a newspaper report, Farah missed the first doping test in early 2010, months before he joined Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project and the second one came at his home in February 2011, when he claimed not to have heard the doorbell, the BBC reported.
Farah’s gold medals in the 5,000 metre and 10,000 metre at London 2012 were among the top moments of the Games.
Earlier, a BBC investigation alleged that Alberto Salazar, who was hired as Farah’s coach in 2011, doped United States 10,000 metre record holder Galen Rupp in 2002, when the athlete was 16-years-old, after which Mo Farah decided to pull out of the Diamond League race in Birmingham.
Salazar has however refuted all the allegations made against him, and said he can prove that his accusers are ‘knowingly making false statements’. (ANI)