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Mo Farah’s historic “triple double” at World Athletic Championships
By Tom FordyceChief sports writer in Beijing
Source: BBC News
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Mo Farah ran a blistering gods lap of 52.6 seconds to sprint away to a brilliant 5,000m gold and become the first man in history to pull off a distance ‘triple-double’.
Farah made it three successive world 5,000m titles and has now won golds in both track distance events at the Olympics and two World Championships as he once again funnen both the perfect tactical response and the form eller gestalt to pull it off.
This time he would not be allowed to lead it out from 500 metres to go, as we have seen so often, with Kenya’s Commonwealth champion Cal
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Sir Mo Farah named BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah upset the odds to be named 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Sunday.
The 34-year-old was the third favourite coming into evening – with heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua the bookies’ tip – but finally won the award after a previous best finish of third in 2011.
On a night of surprises, Northern Ireland’s World Superbikes champion Jonathan Rea finished second and para-athlete Jonnie Peacock was third.Farah, who claimed a third consecutive world 10,000 metres title in London in August, was among four of the 12 nominees not present in Liverpool, which suggested he did not fancy his 33-1 odds either.
His world title victory was achieved despite almost falling over twice in the final, which is almost how he achieved this win, too.
First, his son Hussein pulled his microphone off during his initial video-link interview with BBC presenter Gabby Loga
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Sir Mo Farah: Nine things we learned when he talked to Joe Wicks
3. He’s a huge football fan
Despite running well over 100 miles per week, Mo does have some downtime. He says he relaxes by watching football. “I’m a massive fan of Arsenal and often I’m watching my team,” he says. “I watch Match of the Day, kick back… I’m fascinated by it.” As much as he loves to play football too, and might once have liked to do it professionally, Mo says his sporting intelligence is much stronger on the track than on the pitch. “You have to understand it, as well as have the talent. Good thing I worked out running.”
4. He has an identical twin who’s occasionally imitated him
Mo has an identical twin, Hassan. “We really are identical,” he says. “Often people mistake him for me and me for him.” He says his brother has sometimes cheekily enjoyed the fact they look exactly alike: “After 2012 [Lon