ANTI-DOPING RULES
Athlete Mo Farah vows he is clean after dossier leak
The US Anti-Doping Agency confirms it has compiled a dossier on coach Alberto Salazar following claims he used dangerous drugs on his athletes
London — Britain’s four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah insisted on Sunday that he was "a clean athlete" after a leaked US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report suggested that his coach had "almost certainly" broken anti-doping rules. "I am a clean athlete who has never broken the rules in regards to substances, methods or dosages and it is upsetting that some parts of the media, despite the clear facts, continue to try to associate me with allegations of drug misuse. "As I’ve said many times before, we all should do everything we can to have a clean sport and it is entirely right that anyone who breaks the rules should be punished," Farah said. The USADA confirmed on Saturday that it had compiled a dossier on coach Alberto Salazar following a report accusing the athletics guru of dangerously using drugs to boost the performance of his athletes. Britain’s Sunday Times said a USADA report — obtained by the Fancy Bears hacking group — had found Salazar abused prescription drugs and experim...
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