Former Mo Farah aide Jama Aden could face prison over doping offences

• Prosecutors target Farah’s former ‘unofficial facilitator’
• Report accuses coach of putting health of athletes at risk

Jama Aden, the coach who guided Genzebe Dibaba to the 1500m world record and worked as an “unofficial facilitator” with Mo Farah when he trained in Ethiopia, could face up to four and a half years in prison if found guilty of alleged doping offences, according to reports.

The Spanish paper El País said it has seen the prosecutor’s report on Aden, which accuses the British-Somali coach of putting the health of his elite athletes at risk by providing them with up to eight types of substances and medications to improve their performance.

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