New Orleans anchor mistakes Olympian Mo Farah for amateur

And this is why you always do a quick Wikipedia scan before interviewing someone on live television.

New Orleans news anchor LaTonya Norton briefly spoke with runner Mo Farah yesterday after he slayed the competition in that city's Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon, blazing through the 13.1-mile course in a record 61 minutes. After offering her congratulations, Norton asked Farah, "Now, haven't you run before?" — apparently ignorant of the fact that the British-Somali track and field star won a pair of gold medals in London during last year's Olympics.

To his credit, Farah took the whole thing in stride. Rather than calling out Norton on her mistake, he said only that he's done half-marathons before — just not in New Orleans. And the word "Olympics" never comes up once in the whole two-minute segment. Watch his and Norton's awkward exchange below.

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