4-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah says he was ‘racially harassed’ at Munich Airport — but police told us he got upset over a standard passenger security check

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• Britain’s all-time most successful distance runner claims he was racially abused at an airport in Germany.
• Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, posted a video on Instagram to explain that the incident was “pure harassment.”
• But Germany’s federal police denies Farah suffered any discrimination — and says it was all down to a standard security check.

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A four-time Olympic gold medalist claims he was racially harassed at an airport in Germany — but it all may be down to a simple misunderstanding.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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