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Farah is the first big name not to make it, seems he’s just too old now:
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 ... the stopwatch delivered a blunt truth. He had finished 19 seconds outside the qualifying mark of 27min 28sec, running a time of 27:47.
“It’s a tough one,” he replied. “I’ve had an amazing career, thinking about it tonight it’s a bit shocking and I don’t really know what to say. I’m lucky enough to have so many medals, I’m one of these athletes who, if you can’t compete with the best, why bother? Maybe it’s time to spend time with my kids.”
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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 ... the stopwatch delivered a blunt truth. He had finished 19 seconds outside the qualifying mark of 27min 28sec, running a time of 27:47.
“It’s a tough one,” he replied. “I’ve had an amazing career, thinking about it tonight it’s a bit shocking and I don’t really know what to say. I’m lucky enough to have so many medals, I’m one of these athletes who, if you can’t compete with the best, why bother? Maybe it’s time to spend time with my kids.”
Mo Farah’s last-ditch bid for Olympics place ends in ‘shocking’ failure
Mo Farah has failed to meet the 10,000m qualifying standard for the Tokyo Olympics in his final attempt at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester
