Farah finishes 19 seconds off 10,000m qualifying standard‘I tried to push and push and I ran my lungs out. That’s all I had’On a cold night in Manchester, Father Time delivered a chilling and brutal verdict on the end of Mo Farah’s career as an elite athlete.
Farah had clung on to his dream of defending his Olympic 10,000m title in Tokyo, even as his 40th birthday loomed and the niggles began to pester and hinder more than ever before. But in a specially concocted race put on by
UK Athletics on the first day of the
British Championships – designed to give him every chance of making the Tokyo Games – the stopwatch delivered a blunt truth. He had finished 19 seconds outside the qualifying mark of 27min 28sec, running a time of 27min 47sec.