Mo Farah clinches third Olympic gold medal as Brit wins 10,000m event in Rio

Mo Farah sensationally retained his Olympic 10,000m crown tonight - despite being knocked over in the middle of the race.

Britain’s greatest athlete became the nation’s first track and field star to win three Olympic golds when outlasting his East African rivals to triumph in 27.05.17.

But this was no straightforward championship win for an athlete who has made winning the world’s biggest races look easy for the last five years.

Not only did he hold off the vest the planet has to offer, he fell to the track after appearing to be tripped, accidentally of course, by his American training partner Galen Rupp.

Mo Farah was in control throughout

Despite a shock fall midway through

That would have been that for any other athlete but not mighty Mo.

He picked himself up, Rupp paced him back into the peleton, and from there Farah’s brilliance took over.

With two laps to go he was in the lead and although Paul Tanui and Tamirat Tola made a fight of it they had no answer to his kick finish.
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Farah bided his time


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Before charging home to win

“Mo Farah! The man with the plan!!” tweeted Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson. “Got up & handled his Biz!! Righto GB!!”

BBC commentator Steve Cram added: “The manner of his victory was a familiar one, but this takes him into a place where no other British athlete has been.

“It was simply wonderful distance running from Mo Farah.”