Mo Farah loses to Ibrahim in an spectacular fashion..

[tightrope]

AWW WHAT A CUTE PICTURE OF HIM! MASHALLAH!

[Salah Al-Din]

Salah Al-Din wrote:Eyes Only,Let’s first stop the clannish diatribe. Second, unless you're in denial people in Somaliland, which comprises [From Borama, to Berbera, to Burco, To Ceerigaabo to Lascanood & Finally Hargeisa it's Capital] have rescinded their citizenship with Somalia. They've withdrawn from the union. In fact, Somaliland people have never been citizens of Somalia, but of the Somali Republic. That Somali Republic has disintegrated. Now I don't see how Mohamed Farah is a traitor. In fact if we use your logic, if he's a traitor then so is all of Somaliland.

Okay, do you care to explain the difference between Somalia and the Somali republic! As far as I know the Republic of Somalia or Somali republic is just the official name for Somalia. And just because a country is going through civil war doesn't mean provinces should become new countries...plus being colonised by a different european country doesn't legitimise breaking away. Also, it is one thing saying I identify myself with a country because my ancestors are from that country but that does not make you a national of that country....especially if it is a country that does not exist in reality. So he is by all accounts a Somali national who instead of waiving the flag of the country he was born in chose to waive the flag of a country which is legally not a country....a flag which goes against the interests of his birth country.

Somalia is where you are from. Somaliland is where I'm from. Somali Republic is what Somalia & Somaliland formed in 1960. That union has disintegrated. It is null and void. You can have your opinions about what aught to happen and what should be, but unfortunately Mo Farah is no traitor. In fact if we go back in history, the union itself was illegal. Case in point, when officers from Somaliland staged a coup that failed in 1961 they were found not guilty of treason due to the fact Somalia & Somaliland never legally united during their trail in 1963. Mohamed Farah waving the Somaliland flag can be hardly called treason in fact is it down right patriotic! Somaliland reclaiming its sovereignty and withdrawing from the failed & illegal union cannot be said to be treasonous. Please let’s learn the meanings of the words before we throw them around.

Please learn to differentiate your wants and wishes, and the reality on the ground. Just because people have different aspiration as yours does not make them a traitor.

[Hormood]

Never heard of this man before today.

But waving the Somaliland flag for millions to watch is priceless

[ToughGong]

Never heard of this man before today.

But waving the Somaliland flag for millions to watch is priceless

[melo]

@ this forum. Character analysis from one video. Lol, the guy made sujuud in this video, and also made sujuud when he won a few weeks ago at monaco. Find another hobby you haters..

[XaliimoFarax]

Question to those calling Mo a traitor, do u become a traitor if u were born in SL and wave the Somali flag?

[Salah Al-Din]

Xalimo,
Eyes Only thinks the Government, Country & People of Somaliland are all traitors. LOL Quite comical!

[OliveOil]

SAD....how can an Ethiopian win! ufff

[Samatr]

Hmm. Strange. But how does one tell Mo Farah (its the Brits who shortened his name instead of accusing him of appeasing them ) that he committing Treason against the country that bombed 'his people' and once tried to replace his clan with another? Didn't Somalia betray him and his family first before he abandoned it?

''Nah Mo, you're still a traitor''

[Salah Al-Din]

Olive heheeh Ethiopians and Kenyans usually win these races. If some Norwegian won would be a surprise.

[XaliimoFarax]

Xalimo,
Eyes Only thinks the Government, Country & People of Somaliland are all traitors. LOL Quite comical!

lool ironic

Keep it moving ppl life is too short to be forcing ppl in ur wing

[Salah Al-Din]

Mo Farah may try to turn 10,000m silver into 5,000m gold in Daegu

The British 10km runner, Mo Farah, won a silver medal at the world championships in Daegu. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP. Andy Bull in Daegu


• Mo Farah is determined to improve on his silver medal
• First British man to win 10km medal at world championships

The Guardian
Mon 29 Aug 2011

Mo Farah did something extraordinary here but you would never have known it from his reaction. He won the silver medal in the 10,000m. The last time a runner competing for a country from outside Africa won a medal in the 10k at either an Olympics or world championships was over two decades ago, in 1988. And yet for Farah the result was a bitter disappointment.

Until the world championship final he was unbeaten on the track this year and he said afterwards that with 300m to go he was certain that he was going to win again here. "I looked up at the screen, saw that there was enough of a gap there and just thought 'hold it, hold it'," said Farah. And then he looked back.

He did not even recognise the man who was closing fast behind him. It was Ibrahim Jeilan, a 22-year-old from Ethiopia whose only previous international achievement of note was a gold at the world junior championships in 2006. "I didn't have a clue about the guy," Farah explained. With 100 metres to go I saw him coming on my shoulder and just thought 'wow'."

Jeilan closed fast and Farah almost froze. The victory he had dreamed about all season was slipping away from him. "I tried to relax but with 50 metres to go he was right on my shoulder. I told myself not to panic and just relax but my legs just didn't have it."

Jeilan finally overtook him 20m out from the line, finishing in 27min 13.81sec, a mere 28/100ths ahead of Farah.

It was all the more cruel because the man most people assumed Farah would have to beat, the great Kenenisa Bekele, pulled out of the race after 14 laps and presented Farah with a real chance of victory. Bekele had never lost a 10km race in his career and had won the event at each of the last four world championships. But this was his first competitive race since January 2010. He had been out for 19 months with a ruptured calf muscle, and then a knee injury. "It just shows you how strong the Ethiopians are," said Farah. "One drops out and another you've never heard of pops up and wins."

Once Bekele hobbled off, Farah looked to be in control of the race. He hung at the back of a leading group of eight athletes, outnumbered by the three Ethiopians and a pair of Kenyans. He moved up to the front whenever he felt he was getting boxed in or that the pace was too slow and then kicked for home 500 metres out.

"I thought a 53‑ or 54‑second last lap would be enough." He was aghast when he crossed the line and fell to the track. His training partner in the United States, Galen Rupp, had to pick him up.

But Farah soon pulled himself together. Few athletes have pursued improvement as relentlessly as he has and he says this will only motivate him more. "I'm going to be thinking that I've got a silver here and that I've got to work even harder."

After he finished seventh in the 5,000m in 2007 he went to train in Kenya in Kaptagat mountains. And then after winning two gold medals at the European championships last year he decided to move to the United States to train with Alberto Salazar.

He still has the fastest time in the world this year but not the gold medal he so wanted. "If you'd told me two years ago I was going to win a world silver I would have said 'give it to me', it just shows you how far I have come."

He may yet get another shot in the 5,000m next Sunday. It depends on whether his blisters heal in time. "I just need to see the medical team, get in an ice bath and eat well," he said.

"I would like to run but it's not my decision. It's up to my coach. He will make a final decision in a couple of days' time."

And after that, of course, come the 2012 Olympics in London. By then Farah will recognise and know all about Jeilan but, of course, he may have to beat a fully fit Bekele, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/au ... determined