Mo Farah Falls During 10000m Final – Still Makes History

The 33-year-old stormed to gold and he has now become the first British athlete to win three Olympic gold medals on the track.

Paul Tanui of Kenya was second with Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia coming in bronze medal position.

Like Lasse Viren before him, Mo Farah won a 10,000m gold medal after taking a spill in the race.

Like the line in many songs go, “When you fall just get back up again” this had to be in Mo Farah’s mind.

Farah had a hairy moment when he tripped but quickly recovered and got back into his stride.

“I don’t see him getting a world record in the 10,000m or 5,000m but I don’t think he needs to for us to at least talk about him as the greatest British track and field athlete of all time”. That is why I was quite emotional at the end because it nearly went. I had to be strong and not panic and just gradually work my way through close to the pack. For his part, Rupp mostly stuck right with Farah, and I believe I even detected some coordinating gestures between the two.

“I’ve won an Olympic gold for three of my children”, he said.

Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola (27:06.26) nicked the bronze medal from his countryman Yigrem Demelash (27:06.27) by one hundredth of a second as London 2012 silver victor and Farah’s training partner, American Galen Rupp (27:08.92) dropped to fifth in an absorbing contest.

The chances of Mo Farah making it to the top seemed slim at best when he fell down with 16 laps to go.

Mo Farah has confessed that he thought his Rio 2016 Olympics ‘ “dream was over” after falling over in the 10,000m event.

Farah had made a decision to sit at the back of the field at the start of the race before surging through to the front.

Britain had won five medals entering the final evening of competition at the Olympics Aquatics Centre – 100m breaststroke gold for Peaty, plus two silvers for Jazz Carlin, silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay and 200m individual medley silver for Siobhan O’Connor. “I wasn’t going to let that happen”.

Speaking after the race, Farah wiped tears from his eyes before saying he wanted to make the country proud.

Rutherford failed to retain his Olympic long jump title, settling for bronze behind American Jeff Henderson and South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga.

Tweeting in support and awe of the British champion, U.S. actor Samuel L. Jackson said: “Mo Farah! These girls are no joke; I know I’ve got it in me so I just need to keep trying”.