RIO DE JANEIRO – Mo Farah’s seemingly perfect night was not without its blemishes.
On a night when Farah overcame a trip and fall to rally back and win the 10,000-meter race, his second in as many Olympics, he was forced to address a reported connection to a Somali coach recently arrested by Spanish police on doping charges.
Jama Aden, a 53-year-old coach who has worked with several of the world’s elite distance runners, was arrested in June after Spanish police raided his hotel room and found performance enhancing drugs, as first reported by the Spanish newspaper El Pais.