Why was Farah so sad?

Part of the reason he wins so much is because he hates to lose. Simple,

he KNEW he failed so MISERABLY that iaaf will revoke his card blanche

The great ones cannot stand to lose. He had the champion's mentality ON THE TRACK (not in training) and would drive to the front and try (and fail) to hold it to the end even back in 2008-9. And this was in front of his home crowd and was his swan song.

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Why did he take it so hard? Man has won many races, and once got second. It's only a bloody 5k race. So you got second, so what?

You got dozens of medals already, isn't this a bit childish?

Look at Kipsang when crossing the line second, he raises his hands smiling full of joy.

Imagine if you injected several drugs over several years into your body that WILL shorten your lifespan. You do this so you can get gold medals, but you lose. That would suck. You just absolutely destroyed your body to NOT win.

Even then, you're so careful about it. You make sure to say you don't know any shady dopers/coaches. You miss the maximum allowed amount of tests every year by not answering your doorbell. Do you know how stressful that is? Wonder why he's bald? The gray hair from dodging testers and hoping nothing comes up positive when you finally taper off the drugs in competition.

It takes a lot of trust in whoever is writing your doping program. AlSal, who wrote the doping program, had a woman athlete test positive for testosterone. He claims to have fixed the issue after testing it on his sons with Dr. Brown, but there is still a part of you that worries. The stress is so real, that even your wife flips a lid every once and a while at airports. The whole family is effected.

During this process, one of your pals that you wrote about in your autobiography, is busted with a ton of EPO. So, you claim you never knew him well, even though you were in the same area when he was busted. Of course, blind-faith fans will believe you, but anyone who can actually think realizes that you claimed to be friends in your autobiography! On top of that, your coach is under investigation by WADA and it's rumored that a 4 year coaching suspension is on its way, so you cut ties.

Now the stress has doubled. You have to write your own doping program. Hell, the stress might kill you faster than the drugs. I mean, you only have until 50 until you kick the bucket due to the drugs. You may have a heart attack before your track career is over! You've already collapsed after taking a ton of EPO at training camp. This comes within a similar time frame of collapsing at a road race. You can feel your health already slipping just past the age of 30.

Add to it, your training partner is caught buying EPO for you and a couple of your fellow countrymen. How much longer can you keep this up until you're like Lance Armstrong? Going from an adored icon that is a "freak of nature" to a drug cheat with one nut.

After all this, you lose. You fail to bring home the gold in front of your home crowd. All of that was for nothing. Absolutely nothing. Of course you're devastated.

Absolutely devastated...

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Why did he take it so hard? Man has won many races, and once got second. It's only a bloody 5k race. So you got second, so what?

You got dozens of medals already, isn't this a bit childish?

Look at Kipsang when crossing the line second, he raises his hands smiling full of joy.

Yeah, normally people judge their performance by "medal" or "no medal". On any day, you could be 5th or 2nd. Just depends on the day you have. You're right, most athletes would be extremely happy with silver. Maybe he just got used to winning?

I dont have a problem with Farah caring so much about winning and losing. I find it more disgusting how many athletes get on their knees and thank God for letting them win...Christian, Muslim, etc. whatever version.

Caring about winning and losing I don't mind so much. Believing the creator of the universe cares so much about you that he made you win...while people starve in...I dont know...Somalia...and you're happy about those divine priorities.

that's gross to me.