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“Most people know me as Mo Farah, but that’s not my name or my reality.”
Prior to 2022, if you’d asked any British citizen who Mo Farah is, they likely would have listed off the facts they know about one of the most accomplished athletes in Britain: He made a name for himself as a kid who arrived in the U.K. as a Somalian refugee, worked hard in track and field, and eventually won gold in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races in the 2012 London Olympics. He was even knighted by Queen Elizabeth, making him Sir Mo Farah.
Except Farah kept a secret for years.
In 2022, Farah revealed that he’d been lying about who he really was. All the stories he’d told during press junkets and interviews—that he arrived in the U.K. with his family as an asylum seeker—were lies. Even his name was a lie. Mo Farah was really Hussein Abdi Kahin.
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‘The Real Mo Farah’ Documentary
The BBC produced a documentary about Farah’s story, now available for the U.S. audience on Outside watch.
In The Real Mo Farah, we hear the real…
