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| Mo Farah |
Mo Farah has won his sixth consecutive global title in Beijing, China, on Saturday to lay claim to being Britain’s best ever championship performer,insidethegame.com reports.
Farah, who claimed the 10,000m gold on the opening day of the 15th International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships, has been beleaguered this summer by allegations of doping abuse, levelled at his coach Alberto Salazar rather than him personally.
The 32-year-old British double reigning Olympic champion pulled out of the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Birmingham in June and flew back to his training base in Oregon, claiming he was “emotionally exhausted” by the controversy.
But his return to racing last month demonstrated he had not allowed those circumstances to affect his running, and he proved it again in the Beijing 2008 Ollympic stadium as he retained his title in 27min 01.13sec.
“It means so much,” said Farah after he had outsprinted a Kenyan trio of Geoffrey Kamworor, second in 27:01.76, Paul Tanui, who took bronze in 27:02.83, and BedanMuchiri to take a fourth world title, having taken the lead shortly before the bell.
“It hasn’t been an easy year, but at the same time it is nice to get the team started well.
Congratulations Mo
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