Mo Farah says someone stole from while he was at Haile's G hotel - Haile says Farah was reported for "attacking married athlete"

I imagine they're both lying one way or another, given that they're both liars.

So according to Mo it's up to the hotel to investigate and deal with and not the police, they must do things differently over there.

Mo Farah is a buffoon. I also doubt very much that he was burgled. He might also be a bully. He needs to spare us this nonsense. We don't care. We just don't care. At least I don't..

NativeSon wrote:

Mo Farah is a buffoon. I also doubt very much that he was burgled. He might also be a bully. He needs to spare us this nonsense. We don't care. We just don't care. At least I don't..

+1

I don't think you can count on the police there. Mo sounds pretty coddled, a Western tourist. This would never happen to Eliud "I live like a monk" Kipchoge.

If my hotel gets robbed in Las Vegas they aren't going to compensate me, I'm not sure why Mo would expect a hotel in Ethiopia to be any different. If he has proof that a staff member was responsible that's one thing, but it doesn't sound like he has that.

Sad to see this happening, two of the greatest runners ever going into a fight outside the track or roads. They looked better at the Half they ran a few years ago before Haile retired.

I've been to YaYa Village a month ago and had a great experience. Staff was nice, food was great. Internet was crap. There's a cinder track at the Hotel facility loaded with runners in the morning. Less than half mile away you reach Bekele's track which is "International Standard" (as they like to say it) also loaded with runners.

Life in Ethiopia is not easy and one can notice just as you step out of the hotel, with wide spread poverty across the street. The average salary in the country is about 900 dollars. Per year.

At the hotel one can take a full body massage with a physiotherapist for about 8 dollars; It was one of the best ones I've ever had. You can also get pace makers for your your workouts ie. runners who live across the street - they live so cheap yet they are amazing people who dont even realise how good they are. These are 63/64 min half marathoners who didn't make it and get underpaid to pace guests in their training sessions.

My personal experience there was great and I met really nice people all over. Yet I'd never leave a good amount of money like that at my hotel room. Not in Ethiopia, not in the US, in Europe or anywhere really.

Sadly after living for quite a while at the place Mo Farah just forgot he was not immune to situations that unfortunately can happen to anyone anywhere at pretty much anytime.

Mo Farah = Lance Armstrong

That is all.

Whoa, big sideshow action.

Well, Eliud is going to show Mo his back in any case.

It sounds like Mo brought some hookers back to his hotel room for some late night fartlek action and got robbed. The question is if the ladies were in cahoots with Haile and gave him a cut of their loot.

Reviews online from others mention theft in the hotel by staff members, same with Bekeles hotel. I believe Mo on this.

Why did Mo have $3,000 in cash in his hotel room? Do they not have banks?

Cheats are cheats.

Because only dummies pay for performance enhancing drugs using checks

you have to have been in the third world to understand what can happen.

your credit cards are going to get cloned at some point.

banks may take your cash, may swipe your cash, have rules about dealing with foreigners.

maybe you have to get a sponsor, the list goes on an d on.

in ethopia, there will the a host of issues for sure.

then there is the landlord traditional responsibilities which vary from culture to culture.

for example, in asia is that the landlord takes care of you, that is a real landlord, like a long stay deal

the old school way is that the landlord even represents you legally and can bail you out of jail.

which happened to a friend of mine who drunkenly drove his car into the police chief's house.

but it gets very dodgy, like say you know the thief? and that person is connected who can't lose face,

and doing something on the spot is not possible.

then you need to get political and understand.

mo and halle are amateurs obviously. they could have struck a deal, like saying to moe, hey, i can't go after the crooks, but i can compensate you, with say free rent, or even free rent forever in return for promo, like a promo where moe is saying, hey, halle took care of me, he'll take care of you.

you want to work the positives when they are obvious.

Bigboot wrote:

Reviews online from others mention theft in the hotel by staff members, same with Bekeles hotel. I believe Mo on this.

I agree, I’m #teammo as well. Looks like Halle is trying to cover himself here.

Hopeful but .. wrote:

NERunner053 wrote:

Really curious about him attacking a married woman. That makes it sound like an attempted sexual assault. And it is also worrisome that they helped him make whatever those charges were go away. Would love to see journalists ask him about that in London and for journalists to investigate the entire claim.

The English press will probably try to cover it up and protect him, with him being a lord, or whatever.

As is custom with the dastardly and compromised British media, The Guardian makes an effort to avoid any mention that the athlete he assaulted is married. To the point of deliberately misquoting Haile by removing the word from the quote.

Think of all the other ways they must be protecting him. ?

They took out the word "married" because in Western culture it makes no difference on the severity of the assault whether a woman is married or not.