He finished more than two seconds behind Tola, another first-time Olympic medalist.
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“Is the race over?”
Tania Farah, who is in Brazil to support her husband at the games, spoke to the This Morning team to share how she thought it was “all over” for her athlete after he fell over.
Farah added: “I thought about all my hard work and that it could all be gone in a minute”.
Rupp dropped back to check on his friend.
Should he win that race, Farah will become the first man since Finland’s Lasse Viren in 1976 to retain two Olympic distance titles.
Trott, and team mates Joanna Rowsell Shand, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker, won a gold medal in the women’s team pursuit, beating the U.S. with a world record time of 4 minutes, 10.26 seconds.
Paul Tanui, “Pastor” as he is commonly known by his peers, nearly had his prayers for an Olympics gold medal answered, but a 40-metre sprint by Britain’s Mo Farah saw him settle for a silver medal in the men’s 10,000 race at the ongoing Rio Games Sunday morning.
Mo Farah definitely has the heart of a champion.
Other injection of pace, led by Tamirat Tola, Muchiri and Kamworor stretched the field even further, with lap times beginning to hit 64 seconds.
It was no Super Saturday for the British, as Jessica Ennis Hill was beaten to the women’s heptathlon gold by Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium, and defending long-jump champion Greg Rutherford was reduced to the bronze as American Jeff Henderson won gold and South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga took silver.
There was disappointment for Farah’s fellow Beagle, Asha Philip, as she ran 11.33secs in the semi-finals of the women’s 100m to rank 23rd and miss out on the final.
Thompson played spoiler to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who was looking for her third consecutive Olympic gold. #SILVER medal, but it feels like gold!
“As the laps went down I was getting more and more confidence and at the bell I was just thinking to myself “don’t waste too much energy”, he said. I tried to just keep my composure and keep pushing hoping guys would come back. This race didn’t look as easy as the London win, but it was still a gold medal, the third of his career.
“I felt kind of slow”.
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There was a scare earlier in the race when Farah, 33, was tripped by his training partner, USA’s Galen Rupp on the 10th lap. He is unbeaten in major races since Ibrahim Jeilan pipped him in the longer distance at the 2011 World Championship. “We’ll give it a go”.
