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Mo Farah secret twin ‘could have won gold as well’

August 21, 2012 · 341106 Comments2012-08-21+22%3A36%3A28goth+Mohamed

MO Farah’s secret twin yesterday broke his silence and revealed: “I could have won Olympic gold too.”

Hassan Farah was separated from Mo when they were aged just eight.

He stayed behind in war-ravaged Somalia while his brother was sent by the family to Britain.

Mo will earn an estimated £2.5million a year following his historic 5,000m and 10,000m double triumph at London 2012 earlier this month.

But Hassan remains in the town of Hargeisa in his poverty-stricken homeland. Hassan, 29, said of their childhood together: “Mo and I were on a par as runners.

“Sometimes I would beat him, sometimes he would be beat me.

“But now he has the most technically advanced training and advice available in the world, and I have had nothing.”

Hassan added: “Who knows what I could have become? We could have been famous twin Olympic athletes.

“But he’s my brother, I love him and I rejoice in his great successes.” Hassan, a telecoms engineer, says he hopes to visit his mega-star brother in Britain.

The identical pair were parted when their dad Muktar fled the bloodshed by coming to Britain, where he could only afford to support three of his children.

Mo, along with older brothers Liban and Omar, joined their father in London, while Hassan and his other siblings stayed behind in East Africa.

Mo’s sisters Ifrah and Nimo and their mother Amran earn a living on a remote farm. Nimo, whose two-year-old son suffers from polio, said: “Life is so hard here. We hope Mo’s success will mean he can help us.”

Mum Amran added: “I could burst with happiness at Mo’s success. He’s my wonderful son, my hero.”

Mo, who lives in London with wife Tania, 26, and step-daughter Rihanna, seven, has visited his family in Somalia in the past.

He has also launched a charity to help Somalian youngsters develop their sporting skills.

Source: Daily Star

August 21, 2012

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By goth Mohamed

Tags: family, Mo Farah, two olympic gold medals

Mohamd says:

I wish the family members would stop collaborating with Islamophobic papers whose role is only to laugh at Muslims. All the papers I saw report on M Farah's family had been tabloud papers that are noting but gossip papers. People read them so they could laugh at others misfortunes.

It will also be interesting to note the photographers they hired, because they seem to be showing people in a negative light. A simple smile for the camera is turned into a scary grin if the camera in in the hands of an enemy, and that is what I have been witnessing about all the pictures they took of these "brothers",

6:57 am on August 22, 2012

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- kaboon says:
  
  what do you expect for ignorant people
  
  4:16 am on August 23, 2012
  
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Barwaaqo says:

Reerka Mohamed faarax haloo sheego in mediaha reer galbeedku ka soo qaadayaan aan dani ugu jirin inankooda ee ay sumcadiisa wa ku yeelayaan.

10:00 am on August 22, 2012

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- Mohamd says:
  
  He appears to have a neglected a lot of people that was close to him, but that is what many Somali families have become these days. At his wedding, he was the only one that had a black face in the church, while everybody from his wife Tanya was there. So whatever is going on with him regarding close relatives, is definitely something he would rather ignore.
  
  11:10 am on August 22, 2012
  
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hamze says:

fake news he builted them 2 houses

2:52 pm on August 22, 2012

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Abdul says:

If i try to say somthing about the relationship with his familly is that the somali people are all his familly and he has done this for all off us at the same time you have to understand that he was young wen he came here. Even thou he came with some off his familly but he was still young i dont really blam him. I like the way he help somali people. And for his familly he goes to see them ever year. He may forget. His freinds but sairtently not his mum.
And for more info! He has went to somaliland resently so spleaz suport him and be his fan even if u are not from gabilay or from somaliland

12:27 am on August 24, 2012

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