🇧🇷 On this day three years ago, Sir Mo Farah won 10,000m gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics. 🇬🇧 Here he is breaking the British record at the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon. 🤩 Is he the greatest British athlete of all time? | TCS London Marathon

Sir Mo Farah is a national treasure in the U.K. The Somalia-born hero of the 2012 London Olympics — he won gold in both the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races — is one of the most accomplished athletes in British history. In 2017, Queen Elizabeth knighted Farah for his service to sports. For most of Farah’s time in the spotlight, fans believed that he had arrived in the U.K. with his family as a refugee. But that wasn’t the truth. In ‘The Real Mo Farah’ (streaming free on CBC Gem 📺) Farah reveals th

2.1M views · 413 reactions | This is the shocking true story of how Olympic legend Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant. | BBC One | Facebook