Mo Farah, an amazing athlete.

by gogivers.org

Mo Farah knew that he had to work very hard to win running races. He became double Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. He won the 5000m and 10,000metre races. He was also the first British athlete to win two gold medals at the same world athletics championships.

His training regime:

• Ran 120 miles a week, at a speed of a mile in 5.4 minutes.
• Sometimes he ran on an underwater treadmill which provided less risk of injury than track running.
• After training, he went into a chamber which was cooled to -140C to aid muscle recovery.
• He worked with his conditioning coach four times a week.
• He regularly had his technique analysed by a sports biomechanist.
• He ate lots of pasta after running.

Twins Hassan and Mo Farah were born in Somalia, Africa and were very close as children. They slept in the same bed and shared food from the same plate. They were inseparable, and so similar that teachers and friends couldn’t tell them apart.

The brothers said goodbye to each other at the age of eight when their parents made the agonising decision to send three of their six children, including Mo, to Britain for a chance of a better life. It was 12 years until the twins saw each other again.

Nowadays they speak to each other on the phone every day, and Mo has built two houses for his family.

Hassan, who works as a farmer and lives on a tiny homestead with his camels, cows and donkeys in Somaliland, feels no resentment or bitterness towards his famous Olympian brother. He has to walk four miles to the nearest village with electricity, to watch his brother Mo race. He says that when he watches Mo run: "It is as if I myself am running, so I cannot be jealous of him.