'It's about learning to win and compete, you know, and beat people,' Rupp told NBC Chicago as he prepares to head to the Tokyo Olympics. After all, Salazar – who denies the claims – was the man who turned him into a world-beater, while simultaneously propelling Rupp onto his heels.For Olympic marathoner Galen Rupp, there are several lessons he learned while running in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon that he plans to take with him to Tokyo, but the biggest of them all is simple: how to win. Stood together on the Chicago Marathon startline, it will be more than six years since the pair embraced after memorably ending Africa’s recent monopoly of Olympic 10,000m medals with an Alberto Salazar-trained one-two at London 2012 – half-a-dozen years during which their lives have changed irrevocably.įarah, now a four-time Olympic champion, left Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project last year after calling time on his track career and lives in London, working under the tutelage of Gary Lough, Paula Radcliffe’s husband and coach.įarah always insisted the move had nothing to do with the ongoing doping investigation into Salazar’s practices and maintains he has no regrets over his initial decision to stick with the controversial American coach after allegations first surfaced.

But when asked whether his former training partner is a friend or rival, it is telling that Farah does not miss a beat when replying: “Rivals, for sure.” Where once Mo Farah and Galen Rupp would work out and hang out together in equal measure, now their fleeting encounters are restricted to hotel lobbies or – for the first time in more than two years in Chicago on Sunday morning – on the startline.īoth parties insist it is just the way of the world a natural parting of ways that comes with changing circumstances. The respect remains, but the camaraderie so evident in the past is long gone.

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