Olympian Mo Farah chased the thieves’ van on foot to recover his phone

When a pair of thieves in the UK got here across an unattended mobile phone, all that they had to do was pick it up and leave.

But there was only one problem: the phone belonged to Mo Farah, one in all Britain’s most successful athletes.

The 41-year-old four-time Olympic gold medalist had gone for a run with his wife Tania Nell last week when he left his phone on the side of a non-public road leading to their home in Surrey, England. As the couple was out for a walk, Farah witnessed a white van approaching carrying two men who jumped out and waved a phone, according to “Times”..

According to the witness, when the men returned to the van, Farah was chasing them “at full speed.” He reportedly “easily caught up with the van” and when he did, the thieves returned his phone to him without further incident. According to The Times, a proper investigation into the incident is ongoing.

As reported People Magazine Farah is one in all the most successful British athletes. He won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the London Olympics in 2012 and again at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016. He also won six gold and two silver medals at the world championships during his profession.

This can also be not the first time Farah has encountered thieves. In 2019, he claimed that on his thirty sixth birthday, his hotel room at YaYa Africa Athletics Village was burglarized. During the incident, he alleged that a closed case was opened and two phones were stolen together with a watch, which was a present from his wife, and money.

“Someone at the reception gave someone my key, someone got here in, opened my room and opened my suitcase. It was code locked. And someone took my two phones, money, a watch that my wife bought for me, which you’ll be able to’t buy,” said Farah Associated Press.

He further claimed that the hotel group, owned by one other former Olympian Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, “never took responsibility” for the incident. Gebrselassie’s hotel group then released an announcement disputing the claims and accusing Farah of skipping the $3,000 bill.