UK athletics finds ‘no evidence’ against Farah
UK Athletics’ Performance Oversight Group (POG) has found nothing to suggest wrongdoing from Mo Farah or the Oregon Project after coach Alberto Salazar was accused of doping.
UKA launched a review following allegations broadcast in a BBC Panorama programme in June that Salazar, the head coach at the Nike Oregon Project in Portland, where Farah trains, had violated several anti-doping rules.
There is no suggestion that Farah, 32, has been involved in doping.
UK Athletics had sought to establish whether it was right to have confidence in the U.S. training camp where Farah has been based since 2011.
Farah was grilled for five hours on Saturday during an Usada investigation into the claims made against Salazar.
Initial findings of a review by UK Athletics (UKA) into the high-performance system around Mo Farah include no “evidence of impropriety” involving the double Olympic, world and European champion, the national governing body said on Thursday.
American Salazar has worked as a consultant for British Athletics since 2013.
It continued: “UK Athletics continues to take the issue of doping violations in sport extremely seriously and will assist UKAD and other relevant authorities in their important work whenever required”.
The 32-year-old, who won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the 2012 London Olympics, said then that he was upset his name had “been dragged through the mud”.
Should he succeed, it would make him the first the first man to complete the long-distance double at two World Championships.