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27th Feb 2013

Mo Farah is the nicest guy around as he defends TV interviewer

After yesterday's hilarious video with a news reporter mistaking him for an amateur runner, Mo Farah has proven that he's the nicest guy around with his response.

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After yesterday’s hilarious video with a news reporter mistaking him for an amateur runner, Mo Farah has proven that he’s the nicest guy around with his response.

By Adrian Collins

We thought Mo Farah was nice enough when we saw the video of him being asked if he’d ever run before yesterday, but he’s leaped to her defence today to once again show us that he’s an all round great lad.

He was clearly caught off guard by the question in the interview, but he was really understanding and just ran with the question (no pun intended) instead of whipping out the medals from the Olympics, which is what we would have done.

The video went viral all around the world yesterday, but Mo wasn’t one to let the whole thing go by without saying anything. In response, he tweeted out that we shouldn’t be giving her too much grief, we all make mistakes.

Too right Mo, we feel quite bad ourselves now. People in glass houses and all that…

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