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Mo Farah gives passionate response to rumours of doping and missed drug tests

Published 13:05 19 Jun 2015 BST

Updated 13:06 19 Jun 2015 BST

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Mo Farah gives passionate response to rumours of doping and missed drug tests

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Mo Farah has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks.

It began when a BBC Panorama documentary and journalist David Epstein made allegations about the use of performance enhancing drugs by Farah's coach, Alberto Salazar, and his training partner Galen Rupp. Then it emerged that Farah had missed two drug tests in the years leading up to the 2012 Olympics. The defence given for these missed tests was that he failed to hear his doorbell when the drug testers called to his house. The Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion has now issued a passionate statement denying that he has ever used performance enhancing drugs and pleading to be given privacy and space.

I have never taken performance enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken...

Posted by Mo Farah on Friday, 19 June 2015

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