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22:30, 28 Jul 2013
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah has confirmed he has no intention of quitting the track.
Farah, who reeled off a runaway 3,000 metres victory at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games on Saturday, will make his marathon debut in London next April.
Following an ambiguous TV clip which suggested he would turn his attention solely to the road following next month’s world championships in Moscow, Farah rushed to put the record straight yesterday.
FlyMo said: “It’s 100 per cent I’ll be back on the track and hopefully in 2014 stepping up to a marathon. When I’m done with the track I’ll tell you, but it’s been misunderstood.”
Farah, 30, is considering a 10,000m and marathon double at Rio 2016 - but a treble gold bid, including the 5,000m, is unlikely.
He added: “I think what’s more do-able is the 10,000m and the marathon, because the 10,000m is first and then the marathon is right at the end, so it gives you a bit of time…
Mo Farah says he will be “devastated” if he fails to become Britain’s most successful ever track and field Olympian.
No Briton has won three Olympic gold medals in athletics but Farah is on a hat-trick going to the start line to defend his 10,000 metres crown.
“It would be amazing to win three golds, or even four,” he said, referring to the 5,000m next weekend.
“I know a lot of great athletes haven’t won a gold medal, so to say I could win four would be incredible.”
Completing the long distance Olympic double-double would also put him at the highest peak of athletics. Only Lasse Viren has that on his CV.
Yet such is the form Farah has brought to Rio that he admits: “I’d be devastated” to fall short of the Flying Finn’s legendary mark.
“I’m not going to lie to you, I’m in decent shape and I hope I can achieve it,” he added. “I’m very lucky to be injury-free. Each year I’m getting better and stronger.”
Can it really be four…
When athletes are drug-tested, they are required to list all medications and supplements they have taken within the past seven days. Farah was tested six days after the injection - 17 April 2014. Despite listing a number of other products and medicines, he failed to record L-carnitine on his doping control form.
A year later, as part of their probe into Salazar, investigators with Usada flew to London to interview UKA officials - and Farah.
Farah was questioned by Usada officials for nearly five hours - and Panorama has obtained a transcript of that interview.
Asked specifically and multiple times whether he had an L-carnitine injection before the London Marathon, Farah repeatedly denied it.
He was asked: "If someone said that you were taking L-carnitine injections, are they not telling the truth?"
Farah said: "Definitely not telling the truth, 100%. I've never taken L-carnitine injections at all."
He is then asked: "Are you sure that Alberto Salazar hasn't recommended that you take L-carnitine injections?"
Farah responds: "No, I've never taken L-carnitine injections."
He is asked again: "You're absolutely sure that you didn't have a doctor put a butterfly needle… into your arm… and inject L-carnitine a few days before the…