British athletics legend Mo Farah will be looking for a morale-boosting performance in Sunday’s Diamond League meet at the same London Stadium where he will bring down the curtain on his stellar track career in August.
The 34-year-old quadruple Olympic gold medallist -- who will focus on the marathon after the world championships which run from August 4th to 13th -- goes into the 3000 metres after a week in which documents leaked by Russian hackers Fancy Bears claim a sample he gave in 2015 had to be re-examined before being cleared in 2016.
Farah -- who is also a quadruple world champion at 5000 and 10000 metres -- hit back by saying he will never fail a test but the claims will cast a shadow over his appearance at the stadium where he lit up the London Olympic Games in 2012 with his triumphs in both the 5000 and 10000m.”The meet is only four weeks before the World Championships so it will be a good chance to see where I am at and what fine tuning needs to be done,” said Farah.”
A lot of the world’s best athletes come to London for the meeting and it will be like a mini-World Championships in one day.”Certainly with more than 10 Olympic champions down to compete there is an air of a championships about it although aside from the men’s 110 metres hurdles -- which features among others world record holder and 2012 Olympic champion Aries Merritt -- it is the women’s events that are the more eye catching.
Jamaica may be about to bid farewell to superstar Usain Bolt but in 2016 Olympic 100m and 200m gold medallist champion Elaine Thompson they look to have someone who will dominate the women’s event as he has done the men’s. - AFP