With no fans to cheer them on, four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the rarely run one-hour world record on Friday at the Memorial Van Damme meeting. In an empty stadium because of the coronavirus crisis, Hassan first improved the previous women’s mark of 18.517 kilometers set by Ethiopia’s Dire Tune at the Ostrava Golden Spike …
Sifan Hassan repeated that she was a clean athlete after winning the world 1,500 metres title on Saturday, days after her coach Alberto Salazar was banned for breaking anti-doping rules. American Salazar, the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project, was banned for four years on Monday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for “orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping conduct”. “It …