Farah became the first British track and field athlete to win three Olympic golds, recovering from training partner Galen Rupp’s accidental trip to win in 27 minutes 5.17 seconds in Rio de Janeiro.
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The 33-year-old became the first British track-and-field athlete to win three Olympic gold medals as he dramatically retained his title. With around 300 meters to go Tenui chose to go for it, though Farah caught him and sprinted to the finish line to win a historic third gold medal in a time of 27:05.17.
Talking about his fall, he said: “When you go down, you get really emotional and I just tried to pick myself back up and believe in myself”.
Farah quickly got back up to his feet and flashed a thumbs up.
“So the emotions that came out at the end, I don’t think I have cried like that ever before and I certainly haven’t cried at any of his other races”.
Calling it very “frustrating” to not secure gold, Rutherford added: “I’ve just got to make do and move on from that but I’m pretty gutted”.
Great Britain’s Mo Farah defended his Olympic gold medal in dramatic fashion Saturday night in Rio.
Farah victory also fulfilled a promise to his daughter, who asked her father to win a gold medal for her. Farah already has plenty of gold to go around.
Mo Farah knows how to win and win with class, sometimes it’s nearly like God says if you’re humble you’ll win, but if not keep losing. “For one moment I was thinking, ‘Oh my race is over, my dream is over, ‘” Farah said.
Farah seemed relaxed from the start, shadow boxing with cameras during warm-ups and even waving to fans after the race began.
Jeff Henderson of the United States won gold in the men’s long jump on Saturday, leaping 8.38 metres to snatch the title in the last round.
“What I’m most happy about is that the 100m title is staying in Jamaica”, she said. American Tori Bowie took silver in 10.83 and Fraser-Pryce was third in 10.86.
Talking about his fall he added: “I wasn’t going to let it go”. “I wanted to get more”.
She needed to win by around 10 seconds after Thiam managed a massive throw of 55.93m in the javelin earlier in the evening but could only manage a gap of 7.5 seconds.
“Obviously I didn’t want that to affect the outcome of the race at all”, said Rupp.
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Protesters demonstrating against Brazil’s interim government sought to disrupt the race, running in front of the leaders near the finish before being intercepted by police on motorcycles.
