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Fall down and never get back up again7/11/2023 If he wins the 5,000m next week, he will be only the second man, after Virén, to win both Olympic titles twice. ![]() If he wasn’t there already, Farah now ranks high in his sport’s hall of fame. ![]() Farah is the sixth man to win two Olympic 10,000m titles, following on from Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zátopek, Lasse Virén, Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele. That’s the the sorry state the sport is in.īack to Farah’s achievement, then, on a night when there was no repeat of London’s Super Saturday as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford couldn’t quite match their 2012 golds, settling for heptathlon silver and long jump bronze respectively. The truth is that a lot of winners here will face their own versions of these questions in the next week. It left a sour note, but Farah shouldn’t be immune to interrogation any more than any other athlete.
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