All marathon runners know that the week before the big race is about tapering, taking your foot off the gas, and avoiding all unnecessary stress. This week, however, Mo Farah has not so much gone off-piste as paraglided off the mountain. Not only was he twice spat out of a fast-moving treadmill on Wednesday, risking injury in the process, but he then employed surely the most unconventional public relations strategy since Gerald Ratner called his watches “crap” by engaging in a corrosive war of words with Haile Gebrselassie.
For most mortals, days of negative headlines following his decision to call out the Ethiopian legend for allegedly ignoring his pleas for help after a theft at his hotel, would play deeply on their minds. Yet Farah’s coach, Gary Lough, insists the extraordinary public spat could actually help him in Sunday’s London Marathon.
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