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born 1983 United Kingdom
Sir Mohamed "Mo" Muktar Jama Farah (born Hussein Abdi Kahin, 23 March 1983) is a British former long-distance runner. He holds the record for the most global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles), making him the most successful male track distance runner in the history of the sport, and he is the most successful British track athlete in Olympic Games history.
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As a victim, you never stop blaming yourself, You always live with it.
If you know my story now, you probably understand a bit more.
I didn’t understand that it wasn’t about me. When people first started to talk about him, it would have been easier to get out of that situation.
When I started talking about it, they were going on 10, and when I was a nine-year-old there’s me with a new world.
It was hard for me to deal with it when you’re under constant attack.
You can’t forget what someone contributed to your career. And he gave me self-belief, to make me think I belonged here.
I was that boy who was [under attack] by 20 guys who had the talent to be a journalist. I could have dealt with it better by having a bit more understanding.
Overall, it showed the kind of person I am. Loyal. I always like to give the benefit of the doubt.
I was scared and I packed my bags. I knew when I told him there was no going back.
She’s not really my aunt. She’s a distant relative. She was very good to me, she put a roof above me when I had no family and she looked after me.
I was thinking: if my running doesn’t work, what am I going to do? Then when I got better I said to myself: I just want to be a full-time athlete, train, give it all and be smart.
Families mean everything to me. That’s why you saw my oldest girl on the track with my wife in 2012, because they’re part of me. And I always promised myself: whatever I didn’t have as a kid with family, my family would have.
They were sleeping, eating and training, sleeping, eating and training. And I said to myself: if I’m ever going to have any chance of beating these guys, I’m going to have to change something.