Mo Farah . Is This Guy As Squeaky Clean As We Like To Think ? Part 2. Links to controversial coach Jama Aden .

Today is part two of my piece on Mo Farah, darling of the UK and multi gold medalist in the Olympics. We spoke last night about the tit for tat war of words he had with Haile Gebrselassie, a stolen watch and a minor incident that happened in Gebrselassie's hotel. Gebrselassie was not happy with Farah's accusations and he went on the offensive. He said that a former aide of Farah was refused access to the hotel. His name is Jama Aden. Here are journalists asking Mo about Jama getting refused access to the hotel. It was bigger news than the actual London Marathon.

So Who Is Jama Aden?

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Jama Aden is an athletics coach that trained high performance athletes such as
Genzebe Dibaba. He was also Mo Farahs "Unofficial Facilitator" while he trained in Ethiopia. In June 2016, after a 3 year surveillance operation, police and anti doping raided several premised in the town of Sabadell in Catalonia where he and his athletes were staying. Agency found different types of the banned drug EPO and 19 syringes preloaded and ready to use. Aden was arrested.

Holding The Stop Watch

Farah distanced himself from Aden immediately saying that he had nothing to do with Farah. He was not involved in any coaching.

"He held the stop watch and shouted out times to the athletes as they ran laps."

But eagle eye reporters were not having any of it. Here is a transcript from a tense stand-off after Mon won gold in 2016 between him and Irish Journalist Ewan Mackenna. (If you don't know about this journalist you should follow him on Twitter. He suffers no fools.)

"McKenna [sic]: I was wondering as someone who preaches clean athletics, I was wondering about your association, and repeatedly, your association with people from [Alberto] Salazar to John Smith to [Jama] Aden. And secondly, in terms of Aden, when you explained it, you said he was just holding a stopwatch for you yet his daughter on Twitter today was posting pictures of you having dinner at his house and she said and I quote, ‘We’re very good friends and my dad trains with him.’

Farah: Sorry, who’s that? (emphasis ours)

McKenna: Jama Aden.

Farah: Obviously, you know it’s a small sport… There’s so many athletes by getting pictures of them — obviously you’re taking a picture, you’re not going to say no, are you? So it doesn’t mean you train with them.

Even in Mo's autobiography in 2013, he wrote about Jama Aden. More than a guy holding a stop watch?

There are many more photos of Mo with Aden's family that are up for everyone online to look at. Now knowing a coach with connections to doping does not mean that one is doing it himself. I know a drug dealer down the road from me and my child plays with his child. That doesn't mean I am a junkie.
But around the time of all this going on , you had doorbell gate and two missed drugs tests, the second in which Mo said he didn't hear the doorbell.
Part 3 we will take a look at the Nike Oregon project in Portland United States where Mo Farah moved and became involved in before his rise to the top.