At last the champ! Mo Farah storms to European success

[Baluug]

Too many people are shortening their Muslim names just make them sound more "western". I hate people who call themselves "Mo". It's Mohammed, buddy!! Don't be afraid.....

[N.O.R.F]

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[Cara.]

Yeah but you forget how hot he is. Pity about the stud

[Chimera]

Update about the brother

 

BLISTERING FARAH REFUSES TO WILT

 

 

By Dave Martin, PA Sport, Mombasa

 

Mo Farah is adamant he can continue his emergence as a world-class runner on the track this summer - after the most satisfying cross-country performance of his career.

 

Farah defied the intense 38-degree heat and 80% humidity to be the first European across the line in Saturday's IAAF World Cross Country 12 kilometres race in Mombasa, Kenya, finishing 10th overall.

 

The 24-year-old Somalian-born athlete, who came to London 14 years ago, made the race his major winter target, rather than concentrating primarily on the European Indoor Championships.

 

But Farah, backed by his astute coach, UK Athletics endurance director Alan Storey, will now focus on the rigours of taking on the world's best distance runners.

 

Many people, including Ian Stewart, the last Briton to win the world cross-country crown 32 years ago, insisted winning an indoor 3000metres medal in Birmingham would be more beneficial.

 

Farah did compete in Birmingham, but a fall in his qualifying race wrecked his hopes of success in the final.

 

Now, after recovering from the calf injury collected there and a virus he picked up at the Norwich Union GB team's acclimatisation camp in Durban, he feels his decision fully justified.

 

Last summer's European 5000m silver medallist, said: "After this I've got to believe the Africans are beatable and the only way I am going to go down that path, is like today by racing against them.

 

"My plan has always been to build upon my second place in Gothenburg, particularly after several years of injury, and this race was very important to me looking towards the summer."

 

Farah, like every other competitor at the venue, was hampered by the severe weather conditions - with many athletes rushed away to hospital.

 

He admitted: "People think because of where I was born, I am used to hot weather, but seem to forget how long I have lived in England.

 

"Yes, it was the toughest race I have run in."

 

Farah added: "The fall in Birmingham made me even more determined to do better here. Even so, when I stood on the start line today, I wasn't sure where I would finish."

 

 

 

The Teddington-based star now plans a short rest before starting preparations for the World Championships in August, where his modest target in Osaka will be making the 5000m final and "then seeing what happens".

 

His build-up to Japan is likely to see him spend a few weeks warm-weather training in the United States during spring, where he also planning a couple of races and possibly debuting over 10,000m.

 

Farah said: "Nothing's totally confirmed yet, I'm going to have a rest then sit down with Alan and finalise everything we have discussed."

 

His inspirational display led the senior men to eighth place - top Europeans in a race dominated by the African nations.

 

The women's squads produced even better displays with Hattie Dean 15th and Hayley Yelling a place behind, capturing an outstanding fifth position, which was matched by the juniors led home by 15-year-old Charlotte Purdue.

 

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