Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah hopes to end his track career at the Tokyo Games while suffering a huge blow as he fell short of the qualifying mark for the 10,000 metres in Birmingham on Saturday. He finished on the eighth position behind Briton Marc Scott in the European Cup, which doubled as the British Olympic trial.
In Farah’s first race the time at this distance for four years was 22 seconds short of the required 27 mins 28secs to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games which is scheduled to start on July 23. Mo blamed his foot injury for his poor performance and said that the injury prevented him from training over the last two weeks and that’s the reason he couldn’t make it. Farah said that he was a four-time Olympic champion but that means nothing and he had got out there in each race and mixed it with the best and could give himself a chance.
He further added by saying that he had been carrying a niggle since he came back from training. It was frustrating because he had worked hard for a good result in Flagstaff (Arizona). If the people would ask him two weeks ago it would have been a lot of difference and it’s a part of the sport. It just suddenly came on and he was going under some treatment to it and then came back and really flared up. According to his honesty, it was the first bit he has done of track in the last two weeks.
