Mo Farah
Long-distance Olympic champion Mo Farah’s chances of competing in the Tokyo Olympics vanished as one of the most successful British athletes once again achieved a qualifying time of 27:28 seconds in a specially arranged race at the British Athletics Championships. have failed.
38-year-old Farah, who won the 5,000m and 10,000m gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics, failed to complete the qualification time at the European Athletics 10,000m Cup in Birmingham on June 5. The time was 27:50:54, his slowest since 2014 and good enough for eighth place.
On Friday, he failed once again, although his time of 27:47.04 was slightly better than the June 5 race. Farah was on target pace by the halfway point, but by the 6,000m mark, she began to drop the pace.
With 2,000 meters to go, he went ahead for 10 seconds and kept losing time. “It’s a tough one. I’ve had an amazing career, it’s a little shocking to think about it tonight and I don’t know what to say. I’m so lucky to have got so many medals.”
“I’m one of these athletes, if you can’t compete with the best, why bother? Maybe it’s time to spend time with my kids,” Farah told The Guardian.
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