Athletics: Olympic champion Mo Farah reveals he arrived in Britain under a false identity – Le Figaro

The four-time Olympic athletics champion revealed in a documentary that he arrived in Britain illegally under a false identity.Mo Farah, four-time Olympic athletics champion, revealed in a documentary that he arrived in Britain illegally under a false identity. identity before being forced to work as a servant in a family. “The truth is, I’m not who you think I am. Most people know me as Mo Farah but that’s not the reality. I was separated from my mother, and I was brought to the UK illegally under the name of another child called Mohamed Farah,” said the British athlete in an interview which will be broadcast on the BBC on Wednesday. Farah said he was given the name Mohamed Farah by a woman who brought him to the UK from Djibouti, an East African country, when he was nine years old. The athlete, whose father was killed in Somalia when he was four, said his real name was Hussein Abdi Kahin. “The real story is that I was born in Somaliland, northern Somalia, as Hussein Abdi Kahin. Despite what I have said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK,” he continued. Farah, the first British athlete to win four Olympic gold medals, also said he was forced to do housework and look after other children in a family in Britain. One day, he eventually revealed the truth to his PE teacher, Alan Watkinson, and went to live with a “friend’s” mother who “really looked after” him. Watkinson then applied for British citizenship for Farah, who was finally granted it on July 25, 2000. The athlete says it was his children who pushed him to come forward with the truth about his past. “I kept it for so long, it was difficult because you don’t want to deal with it and often my children would ask questions (…). And you always have an answer for everything, but you don’t have an answer for that”. “That’s the main reason I’m telling my story, because I want to feel normal and not feel like I’m clinging to something,” he said. Farah, who called his son Hussein in reference to his real name, concluded: “I often think of the other Mohamed Farah, the boy whose place I took on this plane, and I really hope he is well.” – Small bridges, sombreros: the most beautiful technical gestures of Mbappé with PSG