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

seko #1 wrote:

yep. and accuses the guest of an event the victim says never really occurred. Haile's faulty towers.

Wrong, read the reports, it did occur.

Kenyano wrote:

Haile as the owner of the hotel he is responsible to ensure that his hotel is safe.

If he addressed the issue in a timely manner, it couldn't have become news.

Addressed it how, exactly? By involving the police? By giving the alleged victim a 50% discount on their bill?

Great article from the Irish Times that is brave enough to link the spat with the doping problems of East Africa :

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/what-lies-beneath-mo-versus-haile-the-truths-they-can-t-disguise-1.3873144

Coevett wrote:

Great article from the Irish Times that is brave enough to link the spat with the doping problems of East Africa :

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/what-lies-beneath-mo-versus-haile-the-truths-they-can-t-disguise-1.3873144

I hope a bulldog bites into this Aden connection and doesn't let go.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/apr/28/mo-farah-london-marathon-haile-gebrselassie-row

He is now the victim of Haile's curse!

Coevett wrote:

Great article from the Irish Times that is brave enough to link the spat with the doping problems of East Africa :

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/what-lies-beneath-mo-versus-haile-the-truths-they-can-t-disguise-1.3873144

"That’s not suggesting any connections: unless perhaps with the case of Jemima Sumgong, the 2016 Olympic marathon champion who in January had her doping ban doubled to eight years after her claims that she was injected with EPO by an “imposter” at a Kenyan hospital during a doctor’s strike were dismissed; in February, Sarah Chepchirchir, Sumgong’s sister-in-law and training partner, was also provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation." Sumgong trained with Jeptoo, so yes there are connections.

"Across the border in Ethiopia anti-doping is desperately random (in 2016 testing was only carried out between April and August). Two years ago a joint investigation by the Guardian, German broadcaster ARD and Holland Media Combination showed just how easy it was to obtain doping products in Addis Abba, often within sight of the national stadium.

In the space of 26 minutes nine phials of EPO were purchased at a cost of 2,430 birr (€90). A sticker on the reverse of the glass container stated they should be dispensed on the prescription of a physician only. Only no questions were asked, no prescriptions were sought."

-how does that pharmacist sleep at night given what he knows? Surely he must have a giant target on his back?

"According to Gebrselassie, who at the time in the autumn of 2016 had taken over the presidency of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, and had been trying to make doping a criminal offence in order to help clean up Ethiopia, Farah was looking for Aden to stay at the resort despite the allegation that Aden was caught earlier in 2016 at his then training hotel in Sabadell, Spain, with a range of banned substances."

-Ha ha ha ha, comedy gold. Ethiopia makes Kenya look clean. In Ethiopia epo is significantly cheaper than Iten, that explains the 12:40s folks. Kejelcha went for a trip home just a few weeks ago.

It's a tricky situation. Haile probably knows enough and could even hire the necessary private investigators to prove that Mo has been doping. But Mo himself probably knows enough about doping in Ethiopia to prove that Haile was also doping and may even be somehow behind the doping of Ethiopian athletes - Haile is head of the Ethiopian federation and he bans Jama Aden but allows Dibaba to compete for Ethiopia - where is the consistency in that? So there is sort of a mutual assured destruction scenario for both of them should one decide to rat out the other. Unless one of them does something really stupid, I suspect that they will eventually close ranks and proof of them doping is going to have to be left to some very good investigative journalists - hopefully they have some good leads by now.

Mo and Haile are probably the two richest distance runners in history, maybe even the richest in athletics aside from Bolt. I read that Haile owns half the hotels in Addis Abbiba. With their connections, let alone the help of journalists, they could surely dig up enough dirt to prove each other's doping histories.

It might be too late however to 'close ranks' as apparently Ethiopia is now teeming with hacks from every British newspaper looking to bring down Sir Mighty Mo.

Just a stopwatch holder wrote:

ooper wrote:

No idea what the fuss is about. Why can't Saint Mo have his old mate Jama Aden pop by to catch up on all the goss?

...because he's wanted by interpol, and caby leave Qatar.

Drama queens!

There's a hotel Haile owns in Sululta just a few minutes outside Entoto. That's where the athletes train. I think it's called a different, Yaya village, but that's where MF stays. They should have bugged the place and busted him for doping -> jailed him. it's pretty obvious why he switched from Kenya to Ethio

Haile Hotels are a Chain wrote:

There's a hotel Haile owns in Sululta just a few minutes outside Entoto. That's where the athletes train. I think it's called a different, Yaya village, but that's where MF stays. They should have bugged the place and busted him for doping -> jailed him. it's pretty obvious why he switched from Kenya to Ethio

Aden is the one that introduced Farah to training in Ethiopia.