At 40, Mo Farah put an end to his brilliant sports career
After the two-time Olympic championship and the three-time world championship in both the 5,000 and the 10,000 meters, the time came for a crude confession of trafficking during his childhood. “Running saved me,” he said after an emotional last race at the Great North Run in England.
Kelvin Kiptum ran the second fastest marathon in history in London
At Mo Farah’s farewell to the sport, the 23-year-old Kenyan completed the third major of the year in 2:01:25, breaking the record in the competition and touching Kipchoge’s world record. In the women’s race, Olympic champion Sifan Hassan, who had never run the 42.195 km before, won the race.