Mo running on empty

IT’S disappointing that golden boy Mo Farah has become involved in an unseemly row over punch-ups at the gym of an elite training hotel and claims that watches and £2,500 in cash were stolen from his room.

There are claims, too, that ‘diva’ Mo and his ten- strong entourage were abusive towards hotel staff. All this sits uneasily with his humble backstory, born in Somalia and arriving in the UK as a child to become one of our greatest Olympians. has he forgotten the Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius, Latin for ‘ Faster, higher, Stronger’ — which refers not just to an athlete’s abilities, but their moral character?