Farah: Experience vital in hunt for gold
Mo Farah admits his experience will be key as he increasingly looks like Great Britain’s last gold medal hope at the World Championships.
The 34-year-old runs in the 5,000 metres heats tonight, having bagged the hosts’ only medal in London so far, the 10,000m.
Farah has pointed to Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei as one of the men who could stop him, bowing out with a second title defence ahead of his track retirement later this month.
He will focus on the marathon after August’s Diamond League final in Zurich and will use all his cunning to go out with a bang in London.
He said: “Experience is everything. If you’ve been in a situation before and done it then it’s easier to deal with and that will help me massively. It’s all the new ones that are a bit more scary because they are raw. “They don’t know what they are doing. They just go for it. “Cheptegei is strong, he’s the one coming through. If you believe you’re strong enough, keep working and that will lift you and encourage you to keep going further. “Like when I had a chance to live with the Kenyans, that’s what really changed me as an athlete. You see them and you tell yourself, ‘If what I am doing is not right and what they’re doing is right, how are you going to beat them?’.”
Farah’s heats begin at 8.05pm, with the highlights tonight including the men’s 400m hurdles final and the women’s 400m.
In the women’s shot put last night, Lijiao Gong of China topped qualification for the final with 18.97 metres.