French runner attacks 14-year-old mascot girl
Nicola Hebden - [email protected]
Published: 2 Jul, 2012 CET.
Updated: Mon 2 Jul 2012 10:15 CET
Video: A French Olympic runner found an unusual way of celebrating after winning the 3,000 meters steeplechase race in the European athletics championships in Helsinki this weekend.
Defending champion, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad, 27, walked over to a mascot after the race, hit something out of its hand and then pushed it violently.
Inside the mascot there was thought to be a 14-year-old girl.
But this is not the first time the runner has shown violence towards mascots - in 2010 after the same race in the same Championships in Barcelona, he asked a mascot to kneel infront of him before pushing it to the ground.
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