HOT OR NOT: Mo Farah’s U-turn provided new levels of bemusement while Deontay Wilder’s call to sack trainer Mark Breland was desperately depressing… and stupid
- Patrick Reed’s win at Mexico last week was impressive given the cheating claims
- Mo Farah’s U-turn over an L-carnitine infusion gave new levels of bemusement
- Deontay Wilder’s call to sack trainer Mark Breland was desperately depressing
- Alan Pardew’s training session with ADO Den Haag was interrupted by fans
It’s Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail’s Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what’s been making him feel warm and what’s been leaving him cold this week.
HOT
PATRICK REED
The sentiment used to be that even Bin Laden wouldn’t cheat at golf.
There are evidently plenty who won’t say the same for Patrick Reed, but you have to grudgingly admire his resilience.
His win in Mexico last weekend was quite something against the backdrop of loathing.
Patrick Reed’s win in Mexico was even more impressive given the cheating claims against him
MO FARAH
New levels of bemusement were attained with this week’s revelations of how he changed his story about an L-carnitine infusion to USADA investigators.
It took a while but he finally came up with a sequel to that episode where he missed a drugs test because he didn’t hear the doorbell.
Mo Farah made an astonishing U-turn over whether he took L-carnitine earlier this week
DICK POUND
The organisers of Tokyo 2020 have seemed worryingly comfortable behind the ‘it’ll be all right on the night’ patter when discussing the coronavirus threat to the Olympics.
But credit to IOC member Pound – by saying they would need to make a call by May on whether to proceed, he finally brought some realism to conversation.
NOT
DEONTAY WILDER
Sacking Mark Breland for throwing in the towel was desperately depressing. And stupid.
For all the fight-saving potential in Wilder’s right hand, he was losing heavily and bleeding from his ear. Breland deserved a bonus, not a bullet.
Deontay Wilder sacked the trainer who threw in the towel in his knockout loss to Tyson Fury
UKAD
The love of low-hanging fruit among their investigators would suggest work among gap-year backpackers in Australia might be more suitable than the current gig of sifting guilty from clean.
Mark Dry, a hammer thrower, has been given a hefty four-year ban for admitting a lie on a doping form while the wait for a big name goes on.
ALAN PARDEW
He is having a ropey old time in his latest gig. After winning his first game at ADO Den Haag, they have lost three and drawn two, prompting a new low this week when fans turned up to training with a flip chart to illustrate a few shortcomings.
Creative bunch, the Dutch.
Alan Pardew’s training session with ADO Den Haag was interrupted by angry supporters