Mo Farah spoke of his shock after Eliud Kipchoge, the greatest marathon runner of them all, had the cloak of invincibility ripped from his back.
The 8/1-ON favourite had won all four of his London Marathons and made history by breaking two hours on his last outing. Yet in the biggest sensation in 40 years of the race he could finish only eighth behind Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata in a rain-drenched showdown. “It was a shock for all of us,” said Farah. “We had expected him to win by miles, considering what times he has run. “But that happens.
We are human. We make it look easy but it’s sport. You can have an off-day, you can get things wrong.” Still, nobody saw it coming, not after world number two Kenenisa Bekele’s late withdrawal appeared to
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