Double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah has revealed that while training in a park in London, he once became embroiled in a fist fight with a stranger.
According to Sport24, Farah said that the incident happened on Christmas Day in 2009 after he asked a couple with a pram not to block a path in Richmond Park in southwest London.
He said that all of a sudden, the man stepped towards him, as if he wanted to fight and he was much taller and bigger than him, but he did not want to back down, adding that both of them were in each other's faces and then it all kicked off.
He added that before he knew it, they were having a full-blown fight, rolling around on the ground, trading blows, adding that onlookers had to pull them apart before things got really bad.
The usually mild-mannered Farah subsequently called his wife, Tania, who drove to the park to collect him, the report said.
The police also arrived, but Farah said that although there were 'nicks and cuts' all over his face and a 'massive bruise' on his head, they were reluctant to pursue the matter, the report added.
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He said that the other guy looked the worse for wear too, and although he had told the police that he had attacked him first, they were reluctant to press charges because the guy looked as if he had come off worse in the scrap.
Farah said that he came home, cleaned up, changed and forgot about it, but it was fair to say that his Christmas Day had got off to a bad start.