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Quote Of The Day

“The panel found that the DSD Regulations are discriminatory but that, on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties, such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF’s aim of preserving the integrity of female athletics in the Restricted Events.”

– Excerpt from 165-page Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling rejecting Caster Semenya’s appeal against the IAAF’s testosterone policy for DSD (differences of sex development) athletes.

LRC Post-Caster Semenya Articles

LRC What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes, The Usain Bolt/Michael Phelps Comparisons Don’t Work and More After getting a confused email from his mom, Robert Johnson realized that average person has no idea what’s going on with the Caster Semenya case because the mainstream reporting on the case is so poor. Somehow the Associated Press, BBC, NY Times, NPR, Reuters, and Washington Post all failed to tell you a very key fact about Semenya – she has XY chromosomes. Since the media’s reporting on Semenya has been so biased, Robert thought it was important to clear up three common misconceptions about the Semenya case. We encourage you to share this article with your friends that haven’t been following the Semenya case closely.

LRCGuest Column by Amby Burfoot: Let Semenya run free … in the 1500 The 1968 Boston Marathon champ who wrote a 5,000+ word piece in support of the IAAF’s regulations regarding Caster Semenya says he felt “no joy” when he read the CAS decision yesterday and is now actually hoping the IAAF lets Semenya run the 1500.

NCAA News

Hayward Field Construction Might Not Allow For Any Oregon Home Meets In 2020 The project was supposed to be finish April 1, 2020, but sources say it’s pushed to the end of May, just in time for the Pre Classic and cutting it pretty close for the June 19th Trials. … It’s a good thing USATF took the meet away from Mt. SAC who’s new stadium which will finish this year.
Ken Goe:“Why College Baseball And Softball Matter And Track Does Not” Baseball and softball teams play games against other schools and there is a winner and a loser. As Goes points out, “you need a road atlas” to keep track of all the meets Oregon athletes are spread out at for any given weekend.
LSU’s Mondo Duplantis And Arkansas’ Janeek Brown Are NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week Duplantis cleared 5.94m to move to #2 collegian all-time and Brown ran the second fastest 100-H/200 one-day double in history with 12.57 and 22.67 at the National Relay Champs at Arkansas. *National Relay Champs Results
Texas Tech And LSU Stay 1-2 In Updated Men’s NCAA Rankings Florida moved up four spots from 7th to 4th. Texas A&M moved down to 4th.
Arkansas Stay #1 In Updated NCAA Women’s Rankings Texas A&M moved up to 2nd, Southern California up to 3rd and Kentucky down to 4th.
Oregon State’s Team And Stadium Are Still A “Work In Progress” But They Are Improving And Hosted A Home Meet Over The Weekend
Women’s Pre-Conference Champs Bowerman Watch List Update Janeek Brown was the key addition to the list after her 100H/200 double.
Last Week’s Event-By-Event Top 10 Collegiate Performances

Post London News

LRCEliud Kipchoge Says He Plans To Run All Six World Marathon Majors Before He Retires New York and Boston couldn’t have heard better news. Get him here now!

Mo Farah Says He Didn’t Want To Take The “Limelight” Away From London With Battle With Haile Gebrselassie “I’m one of those people, I like to get things off my chest. It’s become a bit too much but I stick by every word I said. But at the same time it is all about the London marathon and I didn’t mean to take any limelight away from the sport.”
Athletics Weekly: “Eliud Kipchoge remains focused after fourth London Marathon win” “I am a man who doesn’t like celebrations. I think celebrations ended yesterday at the finish line.” “The more you are humble, the more you become successful. The more you have a lot of pride, the more you can fall. It is better to be humble and succeed for a long time
Charlotte Purdue And Callum Hawkins Lead Team GB’s World Marathon Team Both Hawkins and Purdue moved to #3 on the UK all-time lista after their performances in London.
Callum Hawkins Says He “Almost Blacked Out” When Running His 2:08:14 Scottish Record For 10th Place In London Before you think he’s being overdramatic, remember he actually did collapse in his last marathon when he was leading the Commonwealth Games.
GB’s Hayley Carruthers Recounts Collapsing And Having To Cross Across The London Finish Line For A PR Of 2:33:39 “I think I lost sight in one eye. I just couldn’t lift my legs at all and I just couldn’t move. It was just petrifying.” *2nd Article With Video
Patrick Sang Thinks Eliud Kipchoge Will Break The Marathon WR Again “I talked to people before the race and some were asking what Eliud still had. I told them he still had a lot of potential to run even faster.”

London Women

LRC FinalBrigid Kosgei Is Your New Queen As She Destroys The World’s Greatest Marathon Field Ever Assembled In London Kosgei was extremely confident going in and she showed why this morning in London.

LRCEmily Sisson Backs Up The Hype With 2:23:08 Debut In London Marathon She set an American record for a women’s only race and just missed Jordan Hasay‘s fastest-ever American debut of 2:23:00. Molly Huddle PRed but wasn’t happy, “Today just wasn’t good.”

Charlotte Purdue Moves To #3 On The All-Time GB List With A 2:25:38 For 10th Place She took almost 4 minutes off her previous PB.
42-Year-Old Australian Sinead Diver Gets 7th Place In London With 2:24:11 Diver was actually leading by more than 10 seconds at the halfway mark and her finish time makes her the third-fastest in Australian history.
*Irish-Born Sinead Diver Represents Australia Because Of Athletics Ireland BS She’s was set to represent Ireland at the 2014 Worlds, but Athletics Ireland changed their qualifying time forcing her to run for Australia where she lives and has dual citizenship.
Sub-3 Hour Marathoner Runs London In A Panda Costume To Break Women’s WR For Fastest Marathon In A Full Body Costume She ran 3:48:32 to break the previous record by 25-minutes and even got a congratulatory tweet from Paula Radcliffe. *Pre-Race Article (was briefly our QOD)
38 Guinness World Records Go Down In London A ton of weird ones like fastest Christmas tree, fastest guy dressed as a tent and fastest six-person costume.
London Has Highest Number Of Women’s Finishers In History And Breaks The One Billion Dollar Barrier On Money Raised For Charity Since 1981 There were also a world record for the most number of starters ever with 42,095.

World Relay Champs Are Next Month

The IAAF Looks Back At Five Great Races From Past World Relay Champs USA’s men’s 4 x 800 win over Kenya with Clayton Murphy on the anchor makes their list.
IAAF:Five Reasons We Love World Relays Apparently none of those reasons are distance races as there won’t be any at this year’s World Relays in Japan.

The 110th Drake Relays ResultsTV & Streaming

Random But InterestingMeet The 13-Year-Old Girl Who Set The Marathon WR In 1967 And Then Was Forgotten About Two weeks after Katherine Switzer‘s famous Boston run, Maurren Manco smoked Switzer by more than an hour and ran 3:15:22. The reaction? Almost universally negative.

More Farah / Geb Drama News

Haile Says Farah Has Held A “Grudge” Ever Since He Refused To Let Farah Bring Jama Aden Into His Hotel In 2016
Farah Accused Of 2nd Assault At Haile’s Hotel A hotel gym instructor says Farah grabbed him by the neck an pushed and shoved him in 2018.
Coach Gary Lough Stands By Mo Farah In Conflict With Haile Gebrselassie Paula Radcliffe‘s husband tells says Farah was acting in self-defense, however it seems a lot more than a “minor”thing as federal police were involved.
Mo Farah’s Coach Gary Lough Says Haile Has “… been exposed for what he is and he’s fighting with low blows and lies.”
Toni Reavis Is Enjoying The Farah Vs. Geb TMZ-Type Spat
MB:Mo Farah says someone stole from while he was at Haile’s G hotel – Haile says Farah was reported for “attacking married athlete”

NCAA News

Video:Hayward Field Renovation Update From April 21st Check out an aerial view of the construction progress.
USC Announce $16 Million Track Facility Renovation The first phase will be completed this spring.
NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Texas Tech’s Divine Oduduru And Iowa’s Laulauga Tausaga Oduduru ran his crazy 9.94/19.76 double while Tausaga threw in three events at three meets over the weekend with wins in all and tied for the NCAA shot put lead with 18.02m.

Stanford’s Payton Jordan Meet *Results

Stanford Results: Murphy, Simpson, Kejelcha, Hassan, True, Hull and Ostrander WinClayton Murphy won the 1500 (3:37.59) comfortably, Jenny Simpson got the win (15:21) over Rachel Schneider in the 5,000 (video of finish here) , Yomif Kejelcha won the 5,000 with easily (13:10 for him, 13:17 for 2nd)and Sifan Hassan’s 10,000m debut (31:18) was a success, as Ben True won the 10k (27:52) but no one got the Worlds standard.
Discuss:Official 2019 Payton Jordan Discussion Thread

LRC Weekly PodcastLondon Marathon Recap Podcast: Caster Semenya Decision, Eliud Kicphoge’s Greatness, Stanford & Doha Diamond League Preview, HOKA Project Carbon X We react to the Caster decision, talk about Kipchoge, Stanford, Doha, and more. Includes an interview with HOKA’s Mike McManus about Project Carbon X.

HOKA ONE ONE Project Carbon X World Record Attempts are Saturday (sponsored) *LIVEStream 9 am eastern Saturday

LRCHOKA Project Carbon X is Here: A 50 Mile & 100K World Record Attempt By Jim Walmsley and Others in Brand-New Carbon X ShoeHOKA’s got a new shoe out that they are really proud of they and they’ve enlisted many of their top ultramarathoners to go after the 100k world record in the new shoes this Saturday, broadcast live, world-wide for free. Sponsored content by HOKA ONE ONE.
*MB:Hoka Carbon X project is the 100k WR

LRCUltramarathoning 101: Sage Canaday Explains The Ultramarathon Scene To LRC – Getting Helicoptered Out Of Races, Carrying A Phone And How Would Kipchoge Do? By the end of May, we want to be up to speed on the ultra scene and know “What are the Best Ultra Races in the World?” We started our quest by talking to ultramarathoner Sage Canaday for a 1.5 hours. Audio and text. Sponsored content by HOKA ONE ONE.
*MB:What are the best ultras in the world?

Previous Semenya News

Caster Semenya Loses CAS Case, Can Only Compete In Women’s 800 If She Suppresses Testosterone “The panel found that the DSD Regulations are discriminatory but that, on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties, such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF’s aim of preserving the integrity of female athletics in the Restricted Events.” The ruling applies to athletes who are 46 XY.

MB Discussion: Caster Semenya loses appeal
Semenya Responds:“For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of CAS will not hold me back.”
IAAF Walks Through How New DSD Regulations Will Be Implemented The regulations come into effect on May 8th which means affected athletes can still run at the Doha DL without lowering their testosterone levels.
Caster Semenya Has Previously Hinted She’d Move To 5,000 Rather Than Lower Her Testosterone After her 5,000/1,500 double at SA Champs last weekend, she tweeted, “I change events just like that.” In the past she’s also said she’d move up if she lost the case.
Timeline:How The Caster Semenya Controversy Has Unfolded Since 2009
Former 800m Runner Who Raced Against Caster Semenya Says She Thinks CAS Decision Is Wrong “As a female athlete, I thought high testosterone was a problem. Now I realise this is an outdated and indefensible position.”

More Distance News

Colleen Quigley Working On Building Her Brand While Focusing On 2020 Besides being active on social media, Quigley has her own website and puts out a monthly newsletter (sign up here).
Running Rogue Podcast Interview With Allie Kieffer NYC Marathon 7th placer Kieffer gives an update on her training situation in Austin after she recently parted with her coachBrad Hudson.
Crazy Video:Driver Crashes Through Gym Window And Hits Man On A Treadmill The man was lucky to only suffer minor injuries with a broken nose, sprained ankle and lacerations from broken glass.
MB:Man breaks tape set up for women’s winner at Glass City Marathon

Non-London Road Results

RRW:Kenya’s Mathew Kimeli (27:45) And Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi (30:59) Win UAE Healty Kidney 10k
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich Runs Japanese Soil Record With 66:06 Victory At The Gifu Seiryu HalfAmos Kurgat won the men’s race in 60:34 over Bedan Karoki (61:07).
Reuben Kerio (2:08:18) And Shaso Insermu (2:26:24) Win With Course Records At The RnR Madrid Marathon
Kenya’s Cybrian Kotut (2:09:18) And Ukraine’s Viktoriya Khapilina (2:28:03) Set Course Records At The Cracovia Marathon In Poland

Distance News Of Note

Alberto Salazar Says Galen Rupp’s Comeback Is Going Well; Gives A Political Response To The Mo Farah Vs. Haile G Feud Talking about Farah and Geb, Salazar blamed the GB media for blowing it out of proportion: “Much ado about nothing. They’re both good guys.”
*MB: Al Sal says that Galen Rupp is already back up and running 100 Salazar miles per week (60 running, 60 underwater treadmill)
Good News: After Making Gun Threats, Asbel Kiprop Showed Up At Police Station And Surrendered His Firearm The police will now give him counseling.
*MB: Asbel Kiprop on the verge of suicide /threatens to misuse police-issued guns to earn “justice”

London MB Talk:

Upcoming International Track Action

May 22:Ingebrigtsen Brothers Opening Their Outdoor Season On Home Soil At The Trond Mohn Games
10 Things To Watch Out For In The 2019 Diamond League Season There are some interesting story lines on the track as well as new tracks and venues for some meets.
May 21:Olympic Champions Christian Taylor (TJ), Elaine Thompson (200m) And Omar McLeod (110H) Lead Lineup For Nanjing World Challenge Olympic champ Tiannna Bartoletta is int he LJ and Brianna McNeal in the 100H.
May 25:Defending Decathlon Champ Damian Warner And 2014 Heptathlon Winner Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Return For The Gotzis Multi-Event Meet
June 16:World HJ Champ Mariya Lasitskene Confirmed For Chrozow, Poland Permit Meet
June 30: World Champ Lijiao Gong, Olympic Champ Michelle Carter And Former World Champ Christina Schwanitz Lead Pre Classic Women’s Shot Put Field Also former NCAA champ Raven Saunders.
July 20:Andre De Grasse Vs. Yohan Blake Set For Muller Anniversary Games 100m In London
August 24:Pole WR Holder Renaud Lavillenie And Decathlon WR Kevin Mayer Confirmed For Paris DL

Guest LRC Editorial

LRC Want An Intelligent, Nuanced Read On Caster Semenya Before IAAF Ruling? Amby Burfoot: The Whole World Is Watching: Caster Semenya Vs. IAAF In this in-depth piece, Burfoot argues that intersex pro athletes like Semenya should only be allowed to compete in the female category if their testosterone is below a certain level.
*MB:What’s at stake in Semenya vs. IAAF — Amby Burfoot breaks down the monumental looming CAS decision

Fallout From Caster Semenya Decision

Caster Semenya ADDED To Doha Diamond League 800m Field Tomorrow is her last chance to race before the IAAF’s testosterone rules go into effect. Discuss: Semenya ADDED to 800 field in Doha. How fast will she go?
Caster Semenya Hints At Possible Retirement With “Cryptic” Tweet She tweeted, “Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away with your head held high is dignity.” However, that could mean walking away from the legal battle rather than the sport.
Seb Coe “Really Grateful” To CAS “It’s pretty straightforward. Athletics has two classifications, it has age and gender. We are fiercely protective of both and I am really grateful the court of arbitration has upheld that principle.
Athletics South Africa Considering Approaching Swiss Federal Tribunal To Appeal CAS Decision Athletics South Africa went so far as to say CAS had “opened the wounds of Apartheid.”
The Guardian Runs Through The Behind-The-Scenes Play-By-Play Of The Semenya’s CAS Case An interesting synopsis of how each side’s legal team tried to frame the debate.
Reuters:Caster Semenya At Career Crossroads With Little Time To Choose Direction Semenya either needs to start taking testosterone lowering medication or move up to 5000m.
BBC:“Nobody Has Truly Won – One Side Has Just Lost Less Than The Other”
The Guardian Opinion Piece:“CAS tried to provide a clear verdict on Caster Semenya but left a tangled mess” Andy Bull argues that CAS came down on one side of the debate, but its ruling had “enough holes and caveats” that the dispute will continue.

Some London Marathon Leftovers

Mo Farah Turns Down Marathon Spot At 2019 Worlds; Could Still Return To The Track He could also just skip worlds altogether and focus on a fall marathon.
*Charlotte Purdue And Callum Hawkins Lead Team GB’s World Marathon Team Both Hawkins and Purdue moved to #3 on the UK all-time lista after their performances in London.
Athletics Weekly:“Eliud Kipchoge remains focused after fourth London Marathon win” “I am a man who doesn’t like celebrations. I think celebrations ended yesterday at the finish line.”
Mo Farah HIts Haile Gebrselassie With A $11,700 Compensation Bill; Geb Calls Farah His “Enemy” Geb tels a little more from his side of the story. Says Farah still hasn’t paid his $2700 bill and that four of the employees who were detained quit.
* Mo Farah Says He Didn’t Want To Take The “Limelight” Away From London With Battle With Haile Gebrselassie “I’m one of those people, I like to get things off my chest. It’s become a bit too much but I stick by every word I said.”
“Big Ben” Runner Has His Costume Stolen After London It wasn’t a total loss though as he got a mention on Good Morning Britain by Piers Morgan who offered up $1300 for the return of the costume.
Mo Farah Says He Wasn’t “Distracted” By The Halie G Conflict And It Didn’t Affect His Race
Pre-Race Video:Mo Farah Gets Thrown Off “World Record Pace” Treadmill At London Expo Farah was just goofing around, but maybe a bit more gutsy (or foolish?) than most pros would have done right before a huge marathon race.

2019 London MarathonTV & StreamingTracking & Results*Pre-Race Podcast

LRC FinalEliud Kipchoge Runs 2:02:37, Shatters London Course Record To Win 10th Straight MarathonEliud Kipchoge continues to redefine what we thought was possible in the marathon.

LRCPutting Eliud Kipchoge’s Marathon Greatness In Perspective No matter how you look at it – win rate, average time, or world ranking – Kipchoge is WAY better than anyone else in history.

LRC Mo Farah Speaks On Haile G & Jama Aden As His Coach Gary Lough Criticizes Media Coverage: “I Don’t Think It’s Fair” Mo Farah said he doesn’t regret anything he’s said this week and his coach Gary Lough went a step further, criticizing the media for feeding “off Haile’s lies.” “Haile was president of the Ethiopian federation. He let Jama Aden coach Genzebe Dibaba. So why’s he coming out and saying stuff like this?”

Mo Farah When Asked To Beat Eliud Kipchoge: “I think just let him retire. I’ve run 2.05, I was hoping to improve but 2.04 is not enough for Eliud, is it?”
Mo Farah Undecided On Whether He Wants To Run The 10,000 Or Marathon At 2019 Doha World Champs
BBC Video Interview With Mo Farah – “I’m disappointed in myself.”
Funny Video:Guy Runs London Dressed As Big Ben And Can’t Get Through The Finish Line

Non-Penn/Drake Track Action

Caster Semenya Completes 1,500/5,000 Double At South African Nationals She won the 1,500 in 4:13.61 a day after she beat Dominique Scott in the 5,000 with 16:05.97.
*MB:Caster Semenya Beats Dominique Scott To Win South African 5,000 Title In 16:05.97 The time was at 5,000 feet altitude and coverts to 15:36 according to the NCAA conversion.
*Wayde Van Niekerk Backs Caster Semenya In Her Battle With The IAAF “She’s fighting for women in sports, in society and I respect her for that.”
Armand Duplantis Clears World-Leading 5.94m In LSU Invy Pole Vault
Kenya’s Daisy Jepkemei Runs 3,00m World Lead With 8:52.16 At Brazil IAAF World Challenge Meet Other winners were Alfred Kipketer (1:47.16) in the 800, Michael Kibet in the 1,500 (3:38.85), Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (21.77m) in the SP and a South American U20 400H record by Alison Brendom Alves dos Santos (48.84).
Czech Decathlete Jan Dolezal (8117 Points) And US Heptathlete Annie Kunz (5971 Points) Win IAAF Combined Events Challenge In Lana, Italy*Day 1 Recap
IAAF’s Weekend Track Recap: Shaunae Miller-Uibo OPENS SEASON With 49.05
MB:High Schooler Matt Boling- 19 yr old white dude – runs 9.98 (4.2 m/s) It’s the fastest 100m ever by any US high schooler but if you convert it to still conditions it’s worth 10.16.

The 125th Penn Relays ResultsTV & Streaming

Saturday

Georgetown Men Win 1st Wheel In A Long Time In 4 X 800
Indiana Women Win 1st-Ever Relay At Penn In Women’s 4 X 800Monmouth’s Allie Wilson (2:02.29) and Penn’s Nia Akins (2:02.33) had the best splits.
*Morgan McDonald And Wisco Win 4 X Mile (Barely) They were way back but Oliver Hoare got them back in it on leg #3.
South Carolina Wins College Women’s 4 X 400 To Cap Off Best Penn Relays In Over A Decade They won 3 COA events.
St Jago Ends 12-Year Drought With 4 X 100m Upset Win

Friday

Morgan McDonald And Oliver Hoare Show They Are The Best In NCAA As Wisco Wins 1st DMR At Penn In Over 100 Years
Penn Coach’s Son, Sean Dolan, Finishes 2nd In Boys Mile Canada’s Foster Malleck got the win.
Hyped Field For Boys 3,000 Fails To Live Up To Expectations
*MB:If Penn Relays 3k champ Eldad Mulugeta wasn’t American, people would think he’s really old
*MB:Defending Penn Relays HS 3k champ scratches because it rained?
Penn Relays has switched order of boys 4 x 800 and 4 x mile this year 4 x 800 is now first.
Wisconsin Football Superstar Jonathan Taylor Made His Collegiate Track Debut At Penn Taylor, who has rushed for more than 4,000 yards in two years, ran the 4 x 100 and Wisco only beat his studly HS team’s time of 42.41 by 0.41.
Holmwood Tech Gets Revenge On Hydel, Wins Girls 4 X 400 (3:37.20)
Edwin Allen Girls Set 4 X 100m Record (43.62) At Penn They also won the 4 x 800 in 8:54.02.

Thursday

Penn Women BLOW It Open Early, Then Hold On And Win Women’s DMR At Penn Relays In 10:59.44 It’s the first distance relay title for a women’s Ivy League school ever. Thanks to Nia Akins (3:22.73) and Uchechi Nwogwugwu (52.22), they had more than a 10-second lead on the eventual 2nd and 3rd placers after two legs. Notre Dame’s Jessica Harris had the leg of the day (4:28).
Victoria Starcher Breaks Mary Cain’s Penn Relays Meet Record, Wins In 4:38.19 According to a message board poster, she’s now the fourth US girl under 4:40 on the year.
Philly.com:Indiana Freshman Maddy Pollard Saves Best For Last In Penn Relays Shot Put Pollard won with a big 16.41m on her last throw.
DyeStat.com’s Day 1 HS Recap From Penn

Asian Games Conclude In Doha

IAAF Final Day Recap:Bahrain’s Salwa Naser Completes 200/400 Double At Asian Games Naser ended the week with five medals with golds in the 200, 400, 4 x 400, mixed 4 x 400 and a bronze in the 4 x 100. India’s P.U. Chitra defended her title in the 1,500 with 4:14.56 to beat out Bahrain’s Gashaw Tigest (4:14.81).
*JRN:Japan Saves The Best For Last With Three Golds On The Final Day Japan won gold in the men’s LJ, women’s 100H and men’s 4 x 400.
Day 3: Bahrain And China Continue Their Dominance At Asian Champs Bahrain’s Shitaye Habtegebrel ran a championship record 31:52 to win the 10,000 while Winfred Mutile Yavi ran 9:46 to complete the steeple/5,000 double. China got golds from Li Ling in the PV (4.46m) and the women’s 4 x 100 (world-leading and MR of 42.87).
*JRN:Keisuke Ushiro Wins Decathlon Gold At Asian Games Japan also got a hard-fought silver from Hitomi Niiya in the 10,000 (31:22).

Interesting Read: Israeli Star Lonah Chemtai Salpeter Writes About The Search For Gender Equity In Running And Growing Up In Kenya Without Electricity

Previous Haile Vs. Farah News

LRCHaile Gebrselassie Fires Back At Mo Farah, Accuses Him Of “Disgraceful Conduct,” Says Sir Mo Was Reported For Attacking A “Married Athlete” In Hotel Gym We were expecting a titanic clash between distance legends in London – just not these two. Haile G also said Mo Farah refused to pay his $3,000 room bill and that Farah avoided a criminal charge for the alleged attack only after Gebrselassie’s intervention.

Sean Ingle Reveals The Assault On The Married Athlete Was Physical, Not Sexual, In Nature And Haile G says he did so much for Farah that Haile was even afraid to return to his own hotel as he was afraid of an employee uprising. “He should know five workers from our hotel were in prison for three weeks – only for Mo Farah.”
Mo Responds To Haile With Statement: It reads in part, “Mo disputes all of these claims which are an effort to distract from the situation, where members of his hotel staff used a room key and stole money and items from Mo Farah’s room.”
LRCMo Farah Really Wants You To Know He Was Burglarized At Haile Gebrselassie’s HotelFarah lost a sentimental watch, two phones and over $3,200 in cash and was upset with Gebrselassie for not doing anything or responding to his many text messages.

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”