By Joel Adams For Mailonline. This is the video filmed in Addis Ababa which lies at the centre of a furious war of words erupting between two of the greatest distance runners in history just days before the London Marathon.
Accusations between four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah and Ethiopian track legend Haile Gebrselassie escalated further today, with the Briton insisting he was only defending himself against a woman who came at him with dumbbells, after being accused of punching and kicking a married couple.
Sir Mo insisted the damage to his bag pictured , from which items were stolen, inside his locked hotel room, could only have been perpetrated by a member of staff. On March 23, Sir Mo wrote: 'This was my birthday present last Sunday⦠someone linked to Yaya Village Hotel that I am staying at while at training camp used a key from reception and broke into my hotel room. They stole my watch and money'. Since the row re-erupted at a press conference yesterday, accusations have come thick and fast from both sides, including:.
Lough, husband of fellow Olympic legend Paula Radcliffe, was with Farah and his training partner Abi Bashir in Ethiopa when the incident occurred. Gebrselassie was not present. Mo Farah says he had personal items stolen from his bag by staff at the Yaya Africa Athletics Village hotel in Ethiopia pictured , owned by Ethiopian track legend Haile Gebrselassie.
March 23 : Mo returns to his locked room in Yaya Village to find his watch has been stolen from his bag. He posts a video on Instagram. He said only his personal intervention with the chief of police prevented Farah's arrest. Later that day : Farah's coach claims the row in the gym started when an athlete copied Farah's workout then approached his training partner in a threatening way. He admits Farah hit the man's wife, saying it happened by accident, and that she was coming at him armed with dumbbells.
