Crash or not, nothing can stop Farah over 10000 at Olympics

Mo Farah knows how to win and win with class, sometimes it’s nearly like God says if you’re humble you’ll win, but if not keep losing. Ethiopian Tamirat Tola claimed bronze.

“It’s never easy but everyone knows what I can do”, Farah said. “That’s why I was quite emotional at the end, because it nearly went”.

A time of 27:05.17 saw the 33-year-old win his third Olympic gold medal and successfully defend his 10000m win from the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Much of the pre-race talk centred on Kenya and Ethiopia’s tactics and whether the two fabled long-distance nations would attack from the start.

Farah won the 10,000 at the 2012 Olympics ahead of American training partner Galen Rupp of Portland, who in Rio was fifth.

“I thought going into the race an Olympic record could have been broken”. You can tell that everyone was giving 100 per cent to get to the finish line first and I could not be prouder right now.

As he held a 10m lead coming into the race’s final moments, Farah glanced behind himself several times before kissing his palms and raising his hands to his head in his trademark “Mobot” celebration. I just have to spend some time with my family and relax.

Trott, and team mates Joanna Rowsell Shand, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker, won a gold medal in the women’s team pursuit, beating the United States with a world record time of 4 minutes, 10.26 seconds.

“We ran a very slow race during the first few laps”.

In the final laps, Farah and four others had distanced themselves from the rest of the field.

Speaking after the race, he said: “I’d promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her and in my mind I was thinking, ‘I can’t let her down'”.

Along with Joanna Rowsell Shand, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker knocked nearly two seconds off the new best time they set in the morning session to beat the United States of America in the final. “I went through a lot this year”.

Although he could not afford to summon enough energy to propel him to victory, Tanui said he was happy he did not lose the silver. “I’ve got a target on my back”, said Farah, who was born in war-torm Somalia before moving to neighbouring Djibouti and then Britain at the age of eight.

On Friday, Sir Bradley Wiggins overtook Sir Chris Hoy to become Britain’s most decorated Olympian after winning his eighth medal in the team pursuit at the velodrome.