The four-time Olympic champion made the confession in a BBC documentary, adding: ‘The real story is I was born in Somaliland as Hussein Abdi Kahin’
However in a new documentary, The Real Mo Farah, to be broadcast by the BBC on Wednesday, the 39-year-old says that in fact he was trafficked to London by a stranger under an assumed name after escaping war in Somalia.
In the documentary, the athlete also admits that the name Mohamed Farah was stolen from another child and used to create a fake passport. He was also informed that he would be renamed Mohamed. “As a kid, you never think beyond what you’ve been told,” he says in the documentary. “I’ve been keeping it for so long, it’s been difficult because you don’t want to face it and often my kids ask questions, ‘Dad, how come this?’ And you’ve always got an answer for everything, but you haven’t got an answer for that.
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