Mo Farah: Twitter spat sets star against Team GB rival

Andy Vernon's suggestion that Mo Farah gets an easy ride provokes a 'remarkable' outburst from the gold medallist

Mo Farah
AUGUST, ZURICH: Mo Farah celebrates winning the Men's 10,000m at the European Athletics Championships, with compatriot and training partner Andy Vernon in second. After a failed attempt to win the London Marathon and missing the Commonwealth Games through
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Double Olympic champion Mo Farah traded insults with fellow British athlete Andy Vernon on Tuesday evening in what the Daily Telegraph described as a "remarkable slanging match".

Farah, the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000m gold medallist, makes his first appearance of the new season at the Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday. As is often the case for the top athletes, it promises to be a gentle warm-up to a season that climaxes with the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in August.

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