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Mo Farah Completes the Double Double

The most celebrated British athletic performance of modern times — and one of sport's great personal journeys.

2012 · 11 August

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Mo Farah won the 5000m at London 2012 to complete the 5000m/10000m double — having already achieved it four days earlier. 80,000 people roared him round the track. He had arrived in Britain as an eight-year-old refugee who could not speak English.

The most celebrated British athletic performance of modern times — and one of sport's great personal journeys.

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