Mo Farah is today facing becoming the next Great Britain Olympic hero to have his drugs-testing records leaked by Russian hackers.
The man whose double gold at the Rio Games made him the country’s most successful ever track-and-field athlete is among the 53 Team GB stars suspected of having confidential files broken into by cyber-criminals.
Those criminals, part of a group of hackers known as Fancy Bears, have already leaked records showing Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome were granted medical exemptions for otherwise-banned drugs during their cycling careers.
That was after they gained access to data held on athletes at the Olympics who had ever been given what is known as a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).
The man whose double gold at the Rio Games made him the country’s most successful ever track-and-field athlete is among the 53 Team GB stars suspected of having confidential files broken into by cyber-criminals.
Those criminals, part of a group of hackers known as Fancy Bears, have already leaked records showing Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome were granted medical exemptions for otherwise-banned drugs during their cycling careers.
That was after they gained access to data held on athletes at the Olympics who had ever been given what is known as a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).