The four -time Olympic champion Mo Farah revealed that he was illegally brought in Britain since Djibouti with another child’s name. “The truth is I’m not what you think,” Farah, 39, told the BBC in a documentary called “The Real You Farah”. Farah, who became the first British athlete to win four Olympic golds, said her children encouraged her to be true to her past.
“The real story is I was born somalilandnorth of Somalia, as Hussein Abdi Kahin“, he told the BBC.” Despite what I have said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK. When I was four years old, my father was killed in the civil war, as a family we separated. I was separated from my mother and illegally brought to the UK under the name of another child named Muhammad Farah |“.
In the documentary, Farah said she thought she was going Europe to live with relatives and recalled going through a British passport control in Mohamed’s guise at the age of nine after traveling with a woman he had never met.
“I had all the contact details of my relative and when we got to his house the lady took it from me and right in front of me she tore it up and threw it in the trash and at that moment I knew I had a problem, “he. The athlete traveled back to his childhood in the west London“no great memories”, where he was not considered part of the family.
Farah finally told the teacher Alan Watkinson the truth and moved in with his friend’s mother who took care of him and ended up with seven years. Watkinson applied for Farah’s British citizenship, which he described as a “long process”. Farah was recognized as a British citizen in 2000.
Source: La Verdad
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