Mo Farah: Race of His Life Documentary

Ted E Beer wrote:

Yeah, where were his school friends, old training partners, old teachers. MO went from Somalia to Britain and then was an invincible champion. The greats from the past apart from Geb simply didn't exist. I bet the people who made this know zero about athletics.

I have no idea what you are on about. The documentary did not contain the content you thought it should do, the director took a different angle and followed Farah's training and build up, not just interviewing lots of his friends and teachers to say nice things about Farah.

Personally, I am VERY glad the director decided to show us Farah's training and build up to Rio, a bit of his relationship with Salazar and Farah's behind the scenes thoughts about his races before and after. The small piece of input from some other great athletes was just to add a little extra content.

This documentary would have been absolute bullshit if it just consisted of interviews with his old school teachers and some of his mates all saying how good he is!

Glad somebody on here actually watched it, so why do you think he sleeps in an altitude tent whilst at over 2000m, I believe it's a trick they have worked out to make altitude adjustment easier.

Are YOU RETARDED????

It says Farah's Mom took him to the UK. Left his twin in Somalia. Tried to get back with hi father. His father never took him--because he ended up dumped on, and living with his Aunt. I completely agree that this is why Farah doesn't talk to his father, and hasn't for years. His mom tried to get dad to take over one of the twins, Mo.

Goodness, Farah fanboys like you are incapable of seeing--blind.

LOL ... beside Farah long being on the outs with his father, no one seems to know exactly where his mother is. It cannot get any more vague than this--understood to live in Africa? WTF."Mo’s biological mother, Amran, is understood to be living in Africa."http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mo-farahs-brothers-rift-olympic-5750458Then there is Mo claiming he is close to his mother, but...see below. Good luck finding Farah's mother's name on his wiki page or mofarah.com.

AUGUST 2016:

Farah is still close to his mother, Amran, who is in Somalia. ... “She won’t watch me on television,” he says, laughing. “She’s so proud, but she doesn’t quite understand why I put myself through it.

http://gulfnews.com/sport/olympics/track-field/for-mo-farah-there-s-no-cutting-corners-1.1872280

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AUGUST 2012:

Mo Farah's eldest brother Faisal and his mother Amran will walk four miles to the nearest village with electricity to watch the final of 5,000m.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/10/mo-farah-mother-somaliland

Mo Mo Mo, more Mo more problems. The man is a mystery wrapped in a quagmire.

No you are retarded. You clearly have no idea about UK immigration laws, and neither did you watch the documentary.

Farah's father resided primarily in Britain, where he worked as a 'businessman'. He has British citizenship.

The family planned a move to Britain to be together (clearly says this in the documentary and makes perfect sense with European and British immigration laws). Farah's father MUST have applied for his family to be allowed to come and live in Britain with him. He has the right to do this. A Somali family CANNOT just rock up at a British airport and state they are coming in to live or even just visit WITHOUT A PLANNED AND APPROVED VISA. They will just be sent home. The details of this Visa include where you are staying, with whom, how your stay is being funded, how long you can stay for, who is responsible for your stay and other things. I know as I have brought family over to stay from Morocco and it is not easy to get even just a visiting Visa for a short period. To apply to live here from Africa just because you fancy it, is impossible.

If their relationship with the father unfortunately broke down afterwards then that does not mean the family has to be sent back to Somalia.

I'm not a Farah fanboy, I just hate people on the internet making things up to discredit public figures and athletes.

First Farah was a dope cheat. People here then decided he cheats on his wife. Since the documentary people have decided he doesn't have any friends. Now Farah is apparently an illegal immigrant. Hilarious.

Wow I just bothered to read the article you quoted and you are actually stupid. You definitely failed your reading comprehension test on this one.

"Farah’s mother took him to live in London with his British father, when he was eight; his twin brother Hassan would have gone, too, but there was little money for him to travel.

A confused young Farah only realised that his brother was never coming after his parents split up and his mother returned to Africa, leaving Farah to live with an aunt in Hanworth, south-west London."

There is no mention of how much time had passed from the first paragraph to the next. In the documentary, which you definitely did not watch, Farah says that months and months went by before he realised Hassan was not going to come to England.

Any idiot would realise that it is unlikely that Farah's parents split up on day 1 of meeting again anyway!

Moron.

Metric Miler = Mo Fanboy.

Farah has claimed his father took to England, but the articles says it was his mother. Farah never lived with his father in the UK, he lived with his aunt.

I recall reading a story where Farah claimed his twin was too sick to travel, rather than no enough money.

It is really strange that Farah provides little information about his mother, anywhere. She and his father were not Invited to Farah's wedding. Farah could easily have afforded to bring his mother he is close to to the wedding but he did not.

Farah is not close to anyone in his family regardless of what the PR documentary tries to otherwise pretend.

You tell us how great our English is, yet you don't know the difference between than and then.

Oh, wait!!! wrote:

Metric Miler = Mo Fanboy.

Farah has claimed his father took to England, but the articles says it was his mother. Farah never lived with his father in the UK, he lived with his aunt.

I recall reading a story where Farah claimed his twin was too sick to travel, rather than no enough money.

It is really strange that Farah provides little information about his mother, anywhere. She and his father were not Invited to Farah's wedding. Farah could easily have afforded to bring his mother he is close to to the wedding but he did not.

Farah is not close to anyone in his family regardless of what the PR documentary tries to otherwise pretend.

You are really, really stupid.

I explained how UK immigration works and it matches with Farah's story. His father was in London and his mother in Somalia/Djibouti with the kids. Whether his father travelled back to Africa to assist the family in the travel or not makes no difference. The family decided to relocate to the UK using that father's right to do so. The details are extremely unimportant. Maybe you want to see what airline they used also?

Secondly, you also did not watch the documentary. It does not pretend he is close to any of his family at all. In fact it shows quite the opposite.

First he goes to Djibouti to visit old friends and distant family members it states he has not seen in 20 years or so. Then he visits his twin in Somalia whom it states he hasn't seen in a long time.

It doesn't ever say or imply he is close to any of his family at all. Past his childhood it doesn't seem he saw them much at all.

Metric Miler = Troll

Oh, wait!!! wrote:

Metric Miler = Troll

It's ok, I know I've won now. You've run out of stuff to make up.

Metric Miler wrote:

It's ok, I know I've won now.

There is no such thing as a Metric Mile. There is no you.

You are a troll, and you have been one on these boards for many years now.

No such thing wrote:

Metric Miler wrote:

It's ok, I know I've won now.

There is no such thing as a Metric Mile. There is no you.

You are a troll, and you have been one on these boards for many years now.

I believe you may have questioned me on this before.

The 'metric mile' is a colloquial term for the 1500m and is widely used, especially in the UK.

The UK immigration laws and the legal pathway down which Farah found his way to the UK are very simple and easy to understand even for complete imbeciles such as yourself.

Do you not think that when he was a low key athlete, first chosen for Team GB events as a complete nobody, he wouldn't have been investigated by UK immigration if he was illegal?

I don't understand why some posters feel I am trolling when I consistently provide this board with fact and reason.

Metric Miler wrote:

I believe you may have questioned me on this before.

You are paranoid.

Queens's English my arse wrote:

You tell us how great our English is, yet you don't know the difference between than and then.

Not really relevant, I don't think they were being condescending to us.

Deliousal wrote:

Metric Miler wrote:

I believe you may have questioned me on this before.

You are paranoid.

Actually, that sentence doesn't convey paranoia at all. The English skills of the average poster on here seem to be very poor indeed.

Thoughtful piece of Analysis wrote:

I believe it's a trick they have worked out to make altitude adjustment easier.

What trick is that? An "altitude tent" is a type of rebreather. You rebreath some of your own exhaust, CO2, and reduce the amount if oxygen you breath.

One thing breathing high CO2 levels leads to is an increase asthma. Of course, Farah does have an asthma issue.

High Carbon Dioxide Levels May Up Asthma Rate

Metric Miler wrote:

Deliousal wrote:

You are paranoid.

Actually, that sentence doesn't convey paranoia at all. ...

Your response is the expected one a delusional person would give.