Farah confirmed his status as the greatest distance runner of this generation by winning the 5000m gold medal Saturday night in Rio.
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He said: “After the 10k I was feeling exhausted and I didn’t know how I would recover”.
“It shows I didn’t just fluke it in London”, added Farah, Britain’s most successful Olympic track and field athlete of all time.
While athletics’ governing body the IAAF ruled in 2011 that female athletes whose testosterone levels were above a set level would have to use medication to bring those levels down, that decision was overturned past year by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“You’re a target, you’re a target”.
Britain’s Mo Farah completed a historic Olympic distance double double with victory in the 5,000m Saturday as American runner Matt Centrowitz scored an upset win to claim the 1,500m gold.
Victory may not get Brazil into the top 10 of the Olympic medals table but it was the one gold the country wanted.
Victory saw 33-year-old Farah become only the second man after “Flying Finn” Lasse Viren to win both long-distance track titles at two Olympics.
Ahmed was the fifth runner to cross the line in the 5000 meters at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 13 minutes, 5.94 seconds.
Farah won the race in 13 minutes, 3.30 seconds ahead of Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia and Bernard Lagat of the United States.
Farah led at the 200-metre mark but around the bend Paul Chelimo of United States launched a desperate sprint, which put the Briton’s lead under threat. “When I’m gone, all my kids will have something of me”.
Farah can retire on a true high.
On the penultimate day of Olympic action, two Brits were defending titles and others were seeking their first shot at glory.
There was no shock in the women’s 800m where Semenya delivered gold, the first Olympic athletics title for a South African woman in 64 years, having looked unbeatable all year and having to deal with the pressure of questions over her gender.
In the shrouds of history, there is still Emil Zatopek of the Czech Republic and Paavo Nurmi of Finland, but the changes in competition make an accurate comparison impossible.
– The United States’ women’s basketball team made it six straight gold medals, beating Spain 101-72.
It’s not as if he needed the help, but he still won while several of the runners behind him caused a bit of confusion.
Chelimo crossed the finish line second, which would lead you to think that he took home a silver medal, right?
The U.S. coaches eventually appealed the decision and it was reversed, giving Chelimo the silver medal.
None of that affected Farah.
“I felt a little bit exhausted at the beginning, so I thought I had to get going again”, he said.
When Gebrhiwet tried to cut him off, he smartly used his wiry frame to deny him and cement his position among the all-time greats.
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“And once I got going I went to the front and was like: “These guys, I know they are going to be thinking about me, I’m going to control this” – and I controlled it”.
