MPs to quiz England’s doctor over Mo concern

CONCERNS over an infusion given to Mo Farah has led to a parliamentary hearing in London that will see the England football team doctor among those called to give evidence. As Sportsmail revealed earlier this month, Farah is under fresh scrutiny after it emerged UK Athletics medical staff did not properly record an infusion he received for a controversial supplement ahead of the 2014 London Marathon. In what appeared to be an alarming echo of the Team Sky medical records storm, senior sources confirmed to Sportsmail that medical staff did not follow protocols by ‘centrally logging’ the infusion for L-carnitine given to Farah on the UKA system. That has now prompted MPs to call Dr Robin Chakraverty — who administered the infusion as the UKA doctor but is now also the doctor for England’s senior side — as part of the culture, media and sport select committee’s probe into doping in sport. As a leaked report has already revealed, Farah’s coach, Alberto Salazar, has ‘almost certainly’ broken anti-doping regulations by giving infusions in excess of the permitted limit to six of his athletes at the Nike Oregon Project. L-carnitine is a legal supplement but in the same leaked USADA documents Salazar tells Lance Armstrong of its ‘incredible’ performingenhancing qualities. According to the USADA report Farah was given the infusion in April 2014 by Chakraverty, who continues to work with UKA one day a week.