"The relationship between an athlete and a coach can only be based on unflinching trust.
Farah, who won Olympic gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m a year after joining Salazar in 2011, also insisted that he was a "100% clean athlete", but feared that some would think, after watching the BBC's Panorama programme on Wednesday night, that he is guilty by association.
I cheered upon seeing female athletes talk periods in response to Watson, including Annabel Croft, Paula Radcliffe, and athlete Jessica Judd, who told the BBC that doctors trialled a drug on her because she had her period, and it didn't work.
The 20-year-old athlete, his country's leading 100m sprinter, disappeared at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last August.
"It does not make for great memories but it is what drives you as an athlete," says Waterman, one of five members of the squad who have already played in two World Cup finals.
Jimmy Thoronka, the athlete from Sierra Leone who disappeared at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last August and was then arrested in London on Friday, has been released from police custody and taken to Home Office accommodation.
Jimmy Thoronka has been inundated with offers of help from Guardian readers and requests for media interviews since the first report four days ago that the athlete had been found starving and homeless in London after coming to Britain for last summer's Commonwealth Games.
Danny Welbeck may have been heading towards the exit at Manchester United for some time now, a beautifully willing high-pedigree athlete who seems to have been haring off down the same blind alley – knees high, teeth gritted, gloved fists pumping – for pretty much the past two years.
I remember people told me in 2010 after being awarded athlete of the year that now was the time to win the title and become a complete athlete.
I'm a clean athlete, I'm against drugs, 100%.
If like me, you are the age when being a top-flight professional athlete is now officially – rather than merely practically – impossible, try to remember this whenever you read a news story about the downfall of our society.
