Opinion: The lessons we can learn from secret life of Sir Mo | Peter_Fitz
Cathy Freeman winning the 400m at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games as the nation cheered itself hoarse was a case in point. Just 400m for her, a small step, but a mighty leap forward for us as a country.
The Wallabies declining to play South Africa for a couple of decades was even more emblematic of the opening point. “Most people know me as Mo Farah, but it’s not my name, or it’s not the reality,” Farah says down the barrel of the camera. “The real story is I was born ... as Hussein Abdi Kahin. Despite what I’ve said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK.”the description of people that the UK government has been most demonising in recent times as they are about to embark on a program to get people like that to be flown straight to – get this – Rwanda, to be put into camps.
In his case, Sir Mo went on to contribute mightily to the good name of Britain, despite being an illegal immigrant arriving with false papers.
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