In the final laps, Farah and four others had distanced themselves from the rest of the field.
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All of Farah’s championship victories have come in a similar style, where he tracks his usually Kenyan and Ethiopian rivals before hammering a last lap and kicking in the last 200 metres. Farah proved again he is in a league all his own, now right up there with the greatest in history.
In a thrilling Olympic final, the Somali-born British runner even had time to put his hands on top of his head in the trademark “Mobot” sign, as well-known to distance runners as Usain Bolt’s signature pose. “It’s never easy but everyone knows what I can do”, Farah said of the incident.
“That’s why I was so emotional at the end, it nearly went”.
“I’ve won an Olympic gold for three of my children”, he added. “Is the race?” Farah recalled asking himself.
Not since the Viren, in 1972 and 1976, has any distance runner done the 5,000m-10,000m double at consecutive Olympics.
Cyclist Laura Trott also made history on day eight of the Games, becoming the first British woman to win three gold medals after her success in the women’s team pursuit.
Farah tumbled to the ground after appearing to trip over American Galen Rupp on the 10th lap at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday, reports Xinhua.
Reigning World Cross-Country champion Karoki who had technically stuck with Farah from the start, later faded and finished seventh in a time of 27:22.93 and blamed his lackluster performance on a short time of training after returning from injury, while Kamworor, who complained of breathing problems that he started experiencing after the fifth lap finished 11th in a time of 27:3194.
“I bumped into him, there was a lot of pushing”, Rupp said.
“When I fell down”.
“I’ve just got to make do and move on from that, but I’m pretty gutted”. I thought about my family. “That one moment could be it, I just had to get through it and believe in myself”.
“The guys definitely pushed me today and with the fall it’s definitely up there”, Farah said.
Mo Farah has confessed that he thought his Rio 2016 Olympics ‘ “dream was over” after falling over in the 10,000m event. “I knew how hard I’ve worked and I wasn’t going to let that go”.
And, despite a stumble early on in the race, Farah recovered to pass Paul Tanui of Kenya in the home stretch to win in 27mins 05.17secs.
In the end, with 100m to go, he darted past Tanui to claim victory.
A bunch of four trailed Farah at the bell, and Tanui saw his chance down the back straight to finally break Farah’s hold on long-distance racing.
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Tanui, who has won two world championship bronze medals over 10,000 had to settle for silver, with Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola getting bronze.
