Mo Farah is not Mo Farah

Not the only one he's living.

A child was smuggled into the UK and basically held as a slave, and some of you are now blaming the child????

So he, as an adult, took a knighthood under false pretenses.

Should there be no repercussions?

Should he not have refused it and/or come clean at that time?

He has lived a lie all his adult life. I see no merit in that. Quite the opposite.

No, he won't.

Do you really think that backgrounds are not gone over with a fine tooth comb before knighthoods are given?

I don't see how he's lived a lie? He was taken into care by social services as a child when he confided in a teacher. From that point on officialdom knew his background. If he chose not to share it with the public - that's his business.

What i don’t like is that he seems to be sensationalising things as his sporting career winds down. He had a hard upbringing one way or another. I don’t find him endearing but that doesn’t change much. I’m not overly interested in his story or whatever version he has currently decided to tell (with his team)

Can anyone who read his autobiography outline the version of his upbringing he gave at that point?

Big admirer of Mo, but never considered him English/Britishs anyway

He’s coming clean now because he was about to be exposed, I assume?!

So is he a drug cheat or not, there's subtle remarks here but is this what the 'hint hints' comments above are referring too

Just to put that in proportion, as far as I remember he missed two tests, one in 2010, and one in 2011. Those are the tests where the testers show up at your house. In that same period, 9 other british athletes also missed two tests. He claimed to be using noisy high altitude training oxygen machines at the time and couldn't hear the doorbell. But either way, nothing ever came of that. Is 2 missed tests a year apart, a decade ago a lot of suspicion? Form what I remember it was the red tops hyping it up.

The story about him being trafficked is so shocking. It's verifiable, so I doubt he is making it up.

If you have some time then this is interesting in-depth read about his late development and the various controversies.

Not according to the program I watched. He told his PE teacher when in school. He was trafficked as a domestic slave. What is odd is it has taken nearly 20 years for the story to break.

He's a professional athlete. They all dope.

The thing is with Armstrong, towards the end of his career when the drugs question was prominient he hid behind his cancer experience and charity work and muddied the waters.

It looks like that doucmentary last night was a foreward of something else that's coming, it wouldn't make sense to reveal all that and have nothing more from or about him again.

I'd be very surprised if we are going to hear Mo doped. Or that he will admit to it. Not a chance.

This guy is the darling of English athletics. He's a Sir ffs. Can't see him ever admitting to being a doper.

In athletics I firmly believe the vast majority dope. Its just that some haven't been caught yet, or have retired and will never be exposed.

Again though, I'd see his childhood experiences as playing a huge part in this. Imagine being a child taken away from everyone and thing you know and ending up in a strange country and told you had a new name and nobody could know your old name. That you had to lie to people - that the adults who took you away from your family and had control of your life in this strange place told you to lie and never tell anyone your real name or about your real family? That fear runs very very deep even into adulthood. Once you start with a lie it is very difficult to roll back on it

I fostered young people for a London Borough, I never had an unaccompanied asylum seeker but my friends did. One girl from Africa was very secretive about her background and people that she knew in London. The huge difference in her new life - she'd never seen escalators and was scared of them and had never seen a cooker and oven, they cooked on an open fire at home. Try to imagine the feelings that come with that change of life at such an early age.

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