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Team GB star qualifies for 5000m final on Saturday
They watch you race, they know what you are good at.
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In a stellar career, Farah has already achieved the world double-double at the 2015 and 2013 championships in Beijing and Moscow.
Farah won his second straight 5,000m in 13min 3.30sec to match the feat of Finland’s Lasse Viren who retained the same Olympic titles in 1976.
Entering the final lap, he refused to yield his inside lane position in a determined duel with Chelimo and finished strong over the final 120 metres to take gold. “My legs were a bit exhausted after the 10km, I don’t know how I recovered”, Farah told reporters. I can’t believe it…it hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s unbelievable. I did it, I did it.
“I dreamt to become an Olympic champion as a youngster. It hasn’t sank in”.
Now he is, four times over, and lauded despite the occasional cloud that seems to follow Farah due to the company he keeps and a sense of growing frustration that he not more cherished in the land where he grew up after leaving Somalia as a boy. “I did it in London and that was incredible and now four years later to do it again, there’s no words”. “It shows I didn’t just fluke it in London”.
Dejen Gebremeksel, silver medallist behind Farah in London four years ago, and Gebrhiwet set out on a fast pace, Farah sat at the end of the strung-out field at the Olympic Stadium in ideal conditions.
RIO DE JANEIRO Briton Mo Farah survived another stumble to get through to the final of the 5,000 meters on Wednesday and remain on course for the prized Olympic distance double-double.
“They [the Ethiopian athletes] had a plan, they wanted to take the sting out of me but when I hit the front, I wasn’t letting anyone past me”. He explained: “I’ve got such a long stride that I always manage to get tangled up with someone”. Sometimes you just take yourself away from it a little bit and that’s what I did.
BBC commentator Brendan Foster, himself an Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist, said Farah “deserves to be Sir Mo”, saying: “He is, for me, the greatest British athlete”.
“I think I make a difference”.
“There was only one to go and that’s what motivated me”, he said.
“There was only one to go and that’s what motivated me”, he said.
Britain’s Mo Farah clinched a rare long-distance double as five nations won gold medals on the last night of athletics at the Rio Olympics on Saturday.
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In one of the feel-good stories of the Games, Caster Semenya got the gold medal she so desired in the women’s 800, giving her closure after a post-London knee injury had sidelined her for nearly a year as the story around her gender identity persisted.