Mo Farah, Justin Rose and Rafa Nadal among athletes whose data is leaked by Fancy Bears
By Andy Charles
Last Updated: 20/09/16 6:01am
Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah is among the latest athletes to have confidential medical data leaked online.
Russian hackers known as the Fancy Bears published another 26 reports on competitors on Monday with Farah one of eight British sportspeople included.
The personal information relates to Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) granted to the athletes which allow them to take medicines that would usually be on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list.
Monday's leak details two occasions Farah was given a TUE, one in 2008 and the most recent when he was placed on a morphine drip in July 2014 when he collapsed after a training run.
A Farah statement read: "As Mo has previously stated, he has got nothing to hide and doesn't have a problem with this or any of his ADAMS information being released.
"Mo's medical care is overseen at all times by British Athletics and over the long course of his career he has only ever had two TUEs.
"The first was back in 2008 for a one-off anti-inflammatory treatment to an injury.
"The second was in 2014 when Mo collapsed and was airlifted to hospital for emergency care, which consisted of painkillers and being placed on a drip."
The list also includes seven other Team GB gold medallists from Rio; golfer Justin Rose, hockey players Alex Danson, Crista Cullen and Sam Quek, sprint cyclist Callum Skinner and rowers Helen Glover and Peter Reed.
Rafael Nadal, a 14-time tennis grand slam champion, is also named along with Hungarian swimming great Laszlo Cseh.
"When you ask permission to take something for therapeutic reasons and they give it to you, you're not taking anything prohibited," Nadal said. "It's not news, it's just inflammatory."
There is no suggestion that any of the athletes whose information has been leaked have done anything wrong.
WADA confirmed last week that their Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) had been hacked, with Venus and Serena Williams among the first group of athletes to have their data published.
Since then, Tour de France winners Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins have been targeted.
