Updated today 18:35.
Published today, 15:35
Mo Farah slipped away from the other runners at the finish and took fourth straight championship gold in the 10,000 meters.
How will anyone be able to defeat Mo Farah in the 10,000 meters in a championship?
No, it seems. Briton has won the last four championship races at the distance.
How will anyone be able to defeat Mo Farah in the 10,000 meters in a championship?
No, it seems. Briton has won the last four championship races at the distance.
The three Kenyans Geoffrey Kamworor, Paul Tanui and Bedan Karoki tried as best they could.
For most of miloppet gear they pulled in the lead in a fast pace. The problem for them was only 32-year-old Mo Farah easily followed.
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The last laps management consisted of the five-piece group, the three Kenyans, Mo Farah and American Galen Rupp.
But not even a mistake on the last lap when they lapped runner, could disturb British.
He took the lead, increased stride length and when it looked as if Kenyans approached and would walk past, he pressed a little extra and just floated away on the home straight.
Just as he had done so many times before.
The last few weeks have been tough for the British. His coach Alberto Salazar has been accused at having doped one of his runners, Galen Rupp, who finished fifth in the race.
He has published their blood counts to show that he is clean.
– It was not easy after the year I’ve had. I had to let my run stand for the talk and just continue to win medals.
– That’s what I’m good at, he answered at the press conference when asked whether he felt extra pressure after what happened.
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