Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 4:31:55 GMT 7
The wife of four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah today reveals his “humiliation” at being forced to go to the back of the queue for a business class flight.
Tania Farah says her husband, 33, was singled-out by a flight attendant who refused to recognise that he had a business class ticket for the journey back from Rio.
Witnesses later claimed Mrs Farah swore at the airline worker, called her “pathetic” and told her she led a “sad little life”, and was being “disrespectful”, before demanding an apology.
Delta Airlines has refused to comment on the alleged incident on August 22, as the couple and their four children waited to board a 9.35am connecting flight from Atlanta, Georgia to their home in Portland, Oregon.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Telegraph, she said: “This woman basically humiliated him until people came forward and said: ‘That’s Mo Farah, the Olympic champion…’ She was mortified afterwards, but had basically yelled at him like he was a piece of s--- to get back into line.
“He was the only black person [in the queue] and hadn’t done anything to warrant it. I just knew she had a problem with him.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/10/mo-farah-suffered-racist-abuse-during-flight-home-from-rio-olymp/
Tania Farah says her husband, 33, was singled-out by a flight attendant who refused to recognise that he had a business class ticket for the journey back from Rio.
Witnesses later claimed Mrs Farah swore at the airline worker, called her “pathetic” and told her she led a “sad little life”, and was being “disrespectful”, before demanding an apology.
Delta Airlines has refused to comment on the alleged incident on August 22, as the couple and their four children waited to board a 9.35am connecting flight from Atlanta, Georgia to their home in Portland, Oregon.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Telegraph, she said: “This woman basically humiliated him until people came forward and said: ‘That’s Mo Farah, the Olympic champion…’ She was mortified afterwards, but had basically yelled at him like he was a piece of s--- to get back into line.
“He was the only black person [in the queue] and hadn’t done anything to warrant it. I just knew she had a problem with him.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/10/mo-farah-suffered-racist-abuse-during-flight-home-from-rio-olymp/
