Mo Farah is one of the biggest Olympic stars the UK has known in particular and the world of athletics in general. Tonight (Monday to Tuesday), the medalist who was the Olympic champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in London 2012 and Rio 2016 and won 6 gold medals at world championships revealed chilling details from his childhood – as the 39-year-old former runner told the BBC. Among other things, he said that he traded in slavery in Britain and kept the matter in his stomach for many years.
“For years I kept it with me,” he began Farrah, A native of Somalia, his remarks. “My current name is a name given to me by people who flew me from Djibouti. My real name is Hussein ‘Abdi Kahin,” he shared, adding that as a child he was illegally transferred to the UK and forced to work as a domestic worker.
Farrah was flown at the age of nine by a woman he had never met. “You can avoid sharing things like that for a long time,” said the sprinter who previously said he came to the UK with his refugee parents from Somalia. But in the documentary made about him he said his parents had never been to the UK and that his mother and two brothers lived on their family farm in Somalia. His father was killed in Somalia by gunfire when Moe was four years old.
“I was told I was taken to Europe to be with my relatives and I was excited about it because I had never been on a plane. The same woman I did not know told me to say my name was Muhammad, and there were fake travel documents with us that showed my picture next to the name Muhammad Farah.
“I still miss my real family,” Mo said sadly. “But from now on everything will be better. I felt like a lot of people carry stories like that with them, and that’s how I felt ‘his real’ should come out.” What really saved me during my life was running. I am telling this story to challenge public perceptions about trade and slavery. “
