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Mo Farah has medical data leaked by ‘Fancy Bears’ hackers
- Updated: September 19, 2016
Mo Farah is among a further group of 26 athletes to have had their medical data released by hackers going by the name of ‘Fancy Bears’.
The hackers, described by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as “Russian cyber hackers”, are said to have illegally accessed the agency’s anti-doping administration and management system (ADAMS) via an International Olympic Committee-created account for the Rio 2016 Games. Four batches of athlete medical data have now been released, with the leaks including documentation claiming to show substances the athletes have allegedly taken under the approval of their respective governing bodies as Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs).
WADA permits the use of certain substances on its banned list by athletes provided they are able to prove they are required to treat an illness or condition.
According to the documentation released for Farah, who retained both his Olympic 5000m and 10,000m titles in Rio, he had a TUE in October 2008 for an 80mg dosage of the corticosteroid triamcinolone, before another in July 2014 following an incident where he collapsed after a training run at altitude. Farah has spoken about having been placed on a morphine drip following his collapse, and that second TUE lists an intravenous saline solution given as a 48-hour …
