FARAH NAMED IN DOPE REPORT

SIR MO FARAH has been named in a huge cache of files leaked by the Fancy Bears hackers in Russia, with IAAF anti-doping chiefs appearing to place the quadruple Olympic gold medallist under suspicion, while another document said his sample was ‘normal’. A spokesman for the governing body of world athletics said last night they had not yet been able to establish if the documents were authentic. One document, under the heading ‘Hematological Expert report opinion’, lists more than 40 athletes and among them are Farah and his Nike Oregon Project training partner, Galen Rupp. It also lists when the athletes had their last Athlete Biological Passport test and against Farah’s name and a test date of November 23, 2015 — and highlighted in red — it says: ‘Likely doping; Passport suspicious: further data is required.’ Against Rupp’s name it simply says: ‘Likely doping.’ But another document, dated six months after the original one in 2016, appears to clear

Farah of any suspicion, stating that he is ‘now flagged as “Normal” with the last sample’. A spokeswoman for Farah stressed this last night and insisted that the distance running superstar has ‘never failed a test’. She also said they too were trying to establish the validity of the documents. While there is no evidence either athlete is guilty of any wrongdoing, their coach, Alberto Salazar, remains under investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Previous Fancy Bears documents have proved to be authentic.