Sir Mo Farah 'annoyed' at leaked coach doping report

Sir Mo Farah has said that he has "never broken the rules" on drugs in his sport, following the leaking of a report naming his coach.

Russian hackers are believed to have been responsible for leaking the report accusing Sir Mo's coach Alberto Salazar of using prohibited drug infusions to improve runners' performances.

The report from the US Anti-Doping Agency accused Mr Salazar of abusing prescription medication for his athletes at Oregon's Nike training centre.

The Sunday Times published details of the report claiming that Sir Mo, a British Olympic champion who has worked with Salazar since 2011, was among the athletes given infusions of a research supplement based on the chemical L-carnitine.

Citing the report, the newspaper said that a coach given a high dosage described the supplement as being as effective as illegal blood doping.

In a statement, Sir Mo said: "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."

He added: "I'm unclear as to the Sunday Times's motivations towards me but I do understand that using my name and profile makes the story more interesting but its entirely unfair to make assertions when it is clear from their own statements that I have done nothing wrong."

The report had claimed that Salazar took "egregious risks", breaking prescription rules in convincing Farah to take possibly dangerous amounts of permitted vitamin D believing it would increase testosterone and improve his running.

Sir Mo's doctors intervened, however, because they feared the effects on his health.

The athlete tweeted that he was 'annoyed' that the report had been leaked.

Attempts by Reuters to reach Salazar for comment were unsuccessful but he has denied similar accusations in 2015.

Sir Mo was cleared by UK Athletics after the initial findings of a review into his relationship with Salazar.

In his statement, Sir Mo added: "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.

"However, this should be done through proper process and if USADA or any other anti-doping body has evidence of wrongdoing they should publish it and take action rather than allow the media to be judge and jury."

USADA confirmed that a draft of the report appeared to have been "leaked to the Sunday Times by the Russian state- affiliated hacker group known as Fancy Bears".

USADA communications manager Ryan Madden told Reuters: "We understand that the licensing body is still deciding its case and, as we continue to investigate whether anti-doping rules were broken, no further comment will be made at this time."

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Fancy Bears has been blamed for leaking previous medical and doping-related documents and it was one of the groups accused in June of hacking the US Democratic National Committee's computer network.

It has been described by USADA chief executive Travis Tygart as "con artists" who were trying to "distract from the real issue of (Russia's) state-sponsored doping".