Manchester: Mo Farah has failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics and will not defend his 10,000-meter title.
The four-time Olympic champion clocked 27 minutes, 47.04 seconds at the British athletics championships in Manchester.
Mo Farah is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. Farah is the second athlete, after Lasse Virén, to win both the 5000 m and 10,000 m titles at successive Olympic Games. He also completed the ‘distance double’ at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics.
He was the second man, after Kenenisa Bekele, to win long-distance doubles at successive Olympics and World Championships, and the first in history to defend both distance titles in both major global competitions – a feat described as the ‘quadruple-double’.
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