UK Athletics have held talks with Mo Farah regarding his row with Haile Gebrselassie and have received an assurance from him that he has had no contact with controversial coach Jama Aden since November 2016.

Gebrselassie he said his falling out with Farah stems from when he would not allow Aden to enter his hotel.

Aden was arrested as part of an anti-doping operation in Spain in June 2016.

A spokesperson for Farah has said Gebrselassie’s claim is not true.

Aden, the former coach of 2015 world 1500meters champion Genzebe Dibaba, was arrested after police raided his hotel room in Sabadell, north of Barcelona in June 2016. The investigation is ongoing. Aden is now based in Qatar.

In 2016, British Athletics said Aden had been “unofficial facilitator” for Farah when he trained in Ethiopia for a week in 2015 and had only called out lap times for the Briton. They have now sought to double-check that.

“To be clear Jama Aden has never trained Mo and this allegation along with many of the others levied by Haile Gerbreselassie and his hotel employees today have no basis and are not true,” said a spokesperson for Farah on Thursday.

Alleged altercation at Gebreselassie’s hotel

Gebreselassie’s comments came after Farah said he had been the victime of robbery while staying at the Ethiopian athletics great’s hotel in Addis Ababa this year.

Gebreselassie responded to the claim by alleging that Farah “punched and kicked” a husband and wife at the hotel, but Farah’s coach Gary Lough said he was acting in self- defence.