Britain's Mo Farah, who will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday, i...
LONDON - Britain’s Mo Farah, who will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday, is in dispute with fellow distance-running great Haile Gebrselassie for failing to help him after he was robbed at a hotel in Addis Ababa owned by the Ethiopian.
“He didn’t respond even though that’s his hotel,” four-times Olympic champion Farah told reporters at the London Marathon launch on Wednesday. Later on Wednesday Gebrselassie fired back at Farah in a press release, calling his claim of robbery “unproven”. "I found today's accusations made by Mo with unproven premises, as an act of defamation on my hard earned reputation and business," he said in a release posted on LetsRun.com.A spokesperson for Farah told the BBC late on Wednesday that he was disappointed with Gebrselassie’s statement.
“Despite many attempts to discuss this issue privately with Mr Gebrselassie, he did not respond but now that he has, we would welcome him or his legal team getting in touch so that this matter can be resolved.”Farah will need all his focus to be back on the task in hand on Sunday as although the race is widely seen as something of a head-to-head between him and the peerless Kipchoge, the Briton is only the eighth-fastest man in the field and his best of 2:05.
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