Mo Farah can run but he can't hide his roots

A bit of an Olympic roll here. First Latuff takes bronze then double gold winner Mo Farah gets into a scrape with racist airport officialdom.

See this from Yahoo SPORTS:

Mo Farah celebrated his [Christmas] by getting taken for a possible terrorist.
The two-time gold medal winner for Great Britain at this past summer's games was traveling in Oregon and was questioned by U.S. Customs officials after they noticed his Somali ancestry.

Ah it's a roots thing or possibly a his name's Mohamed thing.

Palestinian and Olympic history

Ah, one heart-warming story emerging from the Olympics.  Here's The Guardian:

Maher Abu Rmeileh is the first Palestinian to qualify for the Olympic Games on merit. Under rules exempting developing nations from having to reach the qualifying standard, Palestine is sending a team of four – two swimmers and two runners – to London this summer. But the 28-year-old judoka is a late addition, having only learned of his unique achievement a few weeks ago.

This might go some way to explaining why some zionists are campaigning for another Olympic first.