0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains some strong language
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Go on, Farah. Go on.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Good lad. All the way. Go on, son.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16This fellow's just won the English Schools cross-country championship.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18- And what's your name?- Mohamed Farah.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Mohamed Farah. Right, Mohamed. Don't be shy.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Say something. What's your ambitions?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27- Olympics?- Yeah.
0:00:27 > 0:00:2910,000 metres.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Yeah, I can imagine it. Star of the future.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37In 2012, the nation united
0:00:37 > 0:00:40for one of the greatest sporting events in our history.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Mo Farah was at the centre of the London Olympic Games,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44achieving the impossible.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46- COMMENTATOR: - Farah's going to make it
0:00:46 > 0:00:48two gold medals for Great Britain.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Four years later, and Mo is aiming to make history by defending
0:00:51 > 0:00:55both his gold medals and doing the double-double in Rio.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Can't have a day off. Can't afford it, cos Rio is round the corner.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00With unprecedented access to his home life,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03training regime and to the people who know him best,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05this film follows Mo over the Olympic year
0:01:05 > 0:01:07that will define his legacy.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Welcome back.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Through the miles of training
0:01:12 > 0:01:15that take him back to the land of his parents,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18through the pressures that training puts on his loved ones...
0:01:18 > 0:01:20You never know when you're beat. You never want to lose.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24Even I want to know how you tick.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27..through the cloud of allegations that hang over his sport
0:01:27 > 0:01:28and even question him.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30If Alberto has crossed some line
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and he's done something that he's not supposed to do, then I'm out.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36And through the choices that will determine
0:01:36 > 0:01:37whether Rio is a success or a failure.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I don't want to pull out of the race.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I'm not going to pull out of the race.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46And crown Mo Farah as the greatest British Olympian of all time.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54There we go. Gloves are there.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57And then my numbers are here. What more do I need?
0:01:57 > 0:01:59It's my first race of the season
0:01:59 > 0:02:01so it's going to be a little bit of a test.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04See where I am, just indication sort of how's training gone,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06where am I at. My bald head.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11There's still, like, eight months to the Olympics so, really,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15you don't want to be peak at this race but yet you don't want to lose.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- ANNOUNCER:- Come now to the start of the 2016
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Great Edinburgh XCountry senior men's eight kilometres.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38On the start line, are you ready? Race number one?
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Returning to Edinburgh, double European, double world,
0:02:42 > 0:02:46double Olympic champion for Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Mo Farah!
0:02:47 > 0:02:49STARTING GUN FIRES
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Well, yeah,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54it's almost...
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Right now it is...
0:02:57 > 0:03:00I'm going to check it. It's three o'clock.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Pretty late.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06It's just after my race, Edinburgh race, XCountry.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Yesterday I came second.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18You know, the night after a race, normally...
0:03:18 > 0:03:20can't sleep, just can't sleep.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22So many things going through your mind.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29It's hard to be able to just forget about it.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32You just don't click your fingers and forget about it.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Running is...
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It's what you put in, you get out of.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43No-one can take the blame apart from you.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46No-one can take the blame on this.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48It's just me being honest with you guys.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54That moment...
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I know I don't want to feel like this again.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02I really don't want to feel it.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- FLIGHT ATTENDANT:- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12Welcome to Flight 002 to Africa.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Flight time will be ten hours and 45 minutes,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22For the past six years,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Mo has spent his winters training at altitude in Africa,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28and this is where his preparation for Rio really begins.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Over the next six weeks,
0:04:30 > 0:04:32he'll run 20 miles a day at 10,000 feet
0:04:32 > 0:04:35in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40We are here in Addis.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42We're just about to do a session,
0:04:42 > 0:04:45so before the session I'm going to have coffee.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46This is just a local cafe.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51And it is pretty strong, so you have it and you're like...
0:04:51 > 0:04:54wide awake, so just to get me going.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57He's doing well. I think he's better than he was last year.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02The main thing is his body's good, he feels good, not got any problems.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03That's the key thing right now.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Edinburgh was OK. It's where I was...
0:05:08 > 0:05:09No-one wants to lose a race.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12It was kind of like a little wake-up call to say,
0:05:12 > 0:05:16"Look, you're not at the top yet so you need to do some work."
0:05:16 > 0:05:19MUSIC: Can I Kick It? by A Tribe Called Quest
0:05:25 > 0:05:27# Can I kick it? To all the people... #
0:05:27 > 0:05:30The reason why I chose to train in Ethiopia
0:05:30 > 0:05:32is it's 10,000 feet above sea level.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Altitude training is one of the key weapons in Mo's arsenal.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Reduced oxygen boosts his red blood cell count,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39enabling a quicker recovery.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43He actually enjoys the training, enjoys the running,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46enjoys the application, the satisfaction,
0:05:46 > 0:05:48he enjoys challenging himself.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50He actually enjoys recording it and looking back at what he's done
0:05:50 > 0:05:54and making comparisons and trying to work out whether he could have
0:05:54 > 0:05:57done things better. And that's a huge, huge positive.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Why is it always windy, man?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Whenever I do a track session here, it just gets windy.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06It's never, like, still.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09And we are at 10,000 feet.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Can it get any more harder?
0:06:13 > 0:06:14No. That's why we've got to do it.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I can't understand long-distance people.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20They work so much and they run so much.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Even their warm-up day,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25they run for just miles upon miles getting their legs warmed up
0:06:25 > 0:06:29and I always ask them, how does that make any sense at the start?
0:06:29 > 0:06:33How can you run the same distance you're about to run on the track?
0:06:33 > 0:06:36You know what I mean? Just to warm up, to get your legs going.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Oh, tight, tight, tight.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Training camps are not just about high mileage,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50but speed and stamina, too.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Under Barry's watchful eye, Mo is put through a speed session,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56a key indicator of the progress he's making at altitude.
0:07:02 > 0:07:042.8, mate.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06So a lap jog, guys.
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Three seconds off the pace.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11He's feeling it.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15It's one of these days where you feel bollocks,
0:07:15 > 0:07:16but you still need to do the work.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21I haven't taken a single day off. Even the day I was ill, like,
0:07:21 > 0:07:22I was ill in the morning
0:07:22 > 0:07:25and then in the afternoon I went for a five-mile run.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Can't have a day off. Can't afford it, cos Rio is round the corner.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31At every training session,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35it's clear that Mo pushes himself harder than his training partners.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- No air, man.- Huh?- No air.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- I thought he wasn't going to go any quicker.- What's that?
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- I thought he wasn't going to go any quicker.- This guy? Come on.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Whatever you say, Mo will do about a second quicker.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51At least, yeah. For sure.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53- That's what makes him good, though. - Yeah.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Next stage. Bit quick, guys. Slow it down.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59'He wants to do a little bit more
0:07:59 > 0:08:01'because it proves to himself that he can,'
0:08:01 > 0:08:03and it's just part of him.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05You can't teach people that.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09The downside of that is that his body's a bit older,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11it takes a bit longer to recover.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13He's pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15wants to be the greatest ever, and it's hard.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Doing the mileage he's doing, it's getting more difficult.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21MO PANTS
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Everyone is satisfied with Mo's performance,
0:08:33 > 0:08:35but long, hard weeks are still ahead.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38THEY EXCHANGE GREETINGS
0:08:38 > 0:08:40When we finish our run all the time,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42we try and get some juice or some coffee.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- The juice shack.- Hello.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Can I get four avocado Vimto?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Long runs here are so much harder than they are at home.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Like, we can go out for 15, 20 miles, no sweat at home. Here...
0:08:58 > 0:09:01You know, I'm crawling at 12 or 13.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04I'm hitting nine and I'm like, "I'd love to stop right now."
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Six years plus just going high altitude and stuff like that
0:09:06 > 0:09:10so my body is kind of used to it, but it's something that must...
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Must be done.- The thing that gets me
0:09:12 > 0:09:15is how he can just come back every year the champion
0:09:15 > 0:09:18and winning those medals, and hopefully he can win
0:09:18 > 0:09:21another two this year in Rio. That would be great.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24One for both his kids.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26I know - I've got four kids, no pressure!
0:09:26 > 0:09:29But that's what I mean, like, the twins has got one of each,
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Rhianna hasn't got an Olympic medal, Hussein hasn't got an Olympic medal.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35That's what drives me.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Well, it's early in the morning.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44It's just gone six.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Going to get a little bit of food and then go training.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Today's a long run.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54It's going to be one hard day.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Pretty tired today. I've just done an 18-mile-long run,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10a run round the grass,
0:10:10 > 0:10:14and it's pretty tough, but I guess, you know, you need to do this.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18I've been here now almost five weeks in Ethiopia.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Things are getting tough, pretty hard.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Hi, you two.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Hi!
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Oh, man, connection's bad.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36The main struggle for me is, like, missing my four kids.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37My oldest daughter, Rhianna,
0:10:37 > 0:10:41my son has just turned four months now and my twins, girls,
0:10:41 > 0:10:42they're kind of talking now,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45asking questions, "Where are you? What are you doing?"
0:10:46 > 0:10:49One of them says the other day, "Why does Daddy run?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51"Can he not stop and come home?"
0:10:51 > 0:10:53And I'm like, oh, man.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55As a parent, it's hard to feel that.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59One of them's been really struggling.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02She hasn't been, like, eating as well.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Whenever I'm gone, she just stops eating.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09That moment growing up, I can never get that back, no matter what.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13It makes me feel sad, but the other hand is, you know,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17my career is so short, I have to do what I can.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21You only get one chance, one moment, and this is my moment, I believe.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Mo was born in Somalia,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40but moved to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa when he was four years old.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Whilst he trains in Ethiopia,
0:11:45 > 0:11:47he takes the chance to return to neighbouring Djibouti
0:11:47 > 0:11:49to see his twin brother Hassan
0:11:49 > 0:11:51and to revisit the family home where they grew up.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Punching me for no reason.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02He's trying to get my attention so he punches me.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05That's what brothers do, right?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11I've been getting that all my life, and now I'm going to get it again?
0:12:11 > 0:12:12No chance.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24We used to, like, come here and sell samosas and stuff like that.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26HASSAN SPEAKS HIS OWN LANGUAGE
0:12:26 > 0:12:28We used to play football there.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33We used to come here and swim, like, in the afternoon and that.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37All this is open, and we used to come every Friday.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43As a child, you know, age of eight, this is the memories
0:12:43 > 0:12:47that I have from Djibouti when I left the country when I was a kid,
0:12:47 > 0:12:49and this is the street that I used to run around,
0:12:49 > 0:12:52play football and do other stuff.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55CHILDREN CHEER AND SHOUT
0:12:55 > 0:12:58I am nervous but, yeah, it's quite exciting, too,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02seeing kids and just knowing where you grew up.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08It's the first time Mo has been back in six years.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10HE GREETS PEOPLE
0:13:16 > 0:13:18It feels weird, actually, cos I look at it now...
0:13:18 > 0:13:22When I was a kid, I imagined I lived in this massive house,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25everything for me was like big, huge,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27and then you come back...
0:13:28 > 0:13:30..and it's tiny, it's like small-small.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33To me at the time, it was two big bedrooms,
0:13:33 > 0:13:35one big one, and then the other one
0:13:35 > 0:13:37where everybody used to just sleep on the floor.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40There might be like seven of us, eight of us in one room.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Ismail is one of my best friends.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59He was the one that used to go to school, study hard.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02But us, we used to just play all the time.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16CHEERING AND CLAPPING
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Like, you see all these people, all these kids,
0:14:24 > 0:14:26and I was just one of them kids.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30I don't think what would happen if I'd stayed here.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I don't know what I would have done.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Yeah.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Whilst Mo and Hassan lived here with their mother,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42their father worked away in London, visiting at every opportunity.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48In 1994, after years of planning,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51the family finally joined his father in London.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53But Hassan did not travel with them.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57They have never spoken about this before.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28MO SIGHS
0:16:23 > 0:16:27When I started school back in year six, my English was so bad.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30My cousin was going to the same school at the time
0:16:30 > 0:16:31so I was kind of relying on him a lot.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34He used to translate and teach me a few words.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Please, thank you. Just, you know, simple things.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Toilet.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42I remember, like, the hardest kid in school,
0:16:42 > 0:16:46he used to just rule the school and everybody used to be scared of him
0:16:46 > 0:16:49and then we were playing football one day, he kicked the ball away.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50Just like, "What are you going to do?"
0:16:50 > 0:16:52And I was like, I didn't know the word,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55all I knew was, "Come on, then," so I said, "Come on, then."
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Boom, punched me right in the eye, gave me a black eye.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03When I first got to know Mo, there wasn't an awful lot of talking.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06We were just acquainted at school, we'd see each other round school
0:17:06 > 0:17:08and say hi and the usual sort of, the small talk,
0:17:08 > 0:17:10not really a proper conversation.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13so I didn't realise how broken his English was initially
0:17:13 > 0:17:15because he was always saying hi,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18and then it wasn't until I got to know him a bit better
0:17:18 > 0:17:21at the local running track after school,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23and that's when I realised that his English wasn't so great.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27I couldn't describe what I felt.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30If you're upset or if you're happy,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33it was harder to describe what you're going through.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36I was good at sports and I think that's one of the things
0:17:36 > 0:17:37that really helped me.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39I was always representing the school, the county,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42and I was always in newspapers and stuff so I managed to
0:17:42 > 0:17:45make friends and get into sports and I think that helped me out a lot.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50I knew he had the talent, cos at school,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52I just remember him winning for fun.
0:17:52 > 0:17:57This one cross-country, they all ran through the woods, the forest,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00and they all had to come out the other end.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Mo appeared out of the wood first like this hero.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05He was the first one that comes running out
0:18:05 > 0:18:08and then it felt like forever until the second person came out.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11It was like... "Has he gone the wrong way?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13"Is he on the wrong course here?"
0:18:13 > 0:18:16But there was just silence, and then you see the second guy come,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18and then about five seconds later,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21the rest of them come bolting through the woods.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26He ran the English school cross-country at the age of 13.
0:18:27 > 0:18:33So from 1996 to 2008, he was training,
0:18:33 > 0:18:38running well, winning races, losing races.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41So that apprenticeship that Mo Farah served
0:18:41 > 0:18:44was what made Mo Farah into the great athlete that he is these days.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48The International Olympic Committee has the honour of announcing...
0:18:50 > 0:18:52I was competing for my club.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54And then we stopped at a petrol station,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56I stopped to listen to the news.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- ..City of London. - CHEERING
0:18:58 > 0:19:01It's every athlete's dream to compete at the Olympics.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Not just at the Olympics, but it's going to be in your home town,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05it's going to be in London.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07I remember talking about it, "It's going to be big."
0:19:10 > 0:19:13And then five years later, I'm competing at the Olympics.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Just walking in and seeing the whole stadium...
0:19:21 > 0:19:23So you come through this entrance
0:19:23 > 0:19:24and then you walk along there
0:19:24 > 0:19:27and it's just like the start line's there.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30I never knew the crowd could get any louder
0:19:30 > 0:19:34than actually when he came out and they were like, "Oh, Mo Farah!"
0:19:34 > 0:19:38It actually sounds louder than when I came out, you know what I mean?
0:19:38 > 0:19:41So many Union Jack flags everywhere,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43so many people just cheering for you
0:19:43 > 0:19:46and at that point I was just thinking, "This is it."
0:19:46 > 0:19:49CHEERING
0:19:51 > 0:19:53The noise.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57You can't even explain what that noise was like in the stadium
0:19:57 > 0:19:58on both those nights.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00STARTING GUN FIRES
0:20:00 > 0:20:04- COMMENTATOR:- And the crowd all erupt.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05So many guys in the field,
0:20:05 > 0:20:08so just chill out, try and save as much energy because, you know,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11I'm stronger towards the end of a race.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16I had a doctor tell me in June, one of the check-ups I went to,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19that I was imminently going into labour
0:20:19 > 0:20:21and that I just need to go home and wait for it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26I just took the decision to deal with it on my own.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28And I called his manager I said,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31"Look, there's a chance I might go into labour during the Olympics.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34"Just do me a favour and cover me
0:20:34 > 0:20:36"and just make sure that he doesn't find out
0:20:36 > 0:20:39"and that we keep the game going that, you know,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41"I'm cool and everything's normal."
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- COMMENTATOR:- Locked together.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45The pressure on me was ridiculous.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48These people want me to do well, they're here for me.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Let's go. Let's go.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Hang on! Hang on!
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Stay strong, stay focused.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56I'm making my country proud.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58I'm making history. It can't get better than that.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01The arms have got to pump, the knees have got to come up high.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03He's got to find something extra.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07- He's got to kick hard.- Just hold it. Don't let anyone pass me.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- COMMENTATOR:- Mo Farah takes gold for Great Britain.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain!
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Beautiful!
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Yes! Yes!
0:21:21 > 0:21:22Just chaos.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Just...
0:21:24 > 0:21:27I couldn't really gather my thoughts properly because I felt like
0:21:27 > 0:21:30we were just right in the middle of this madness.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I remember seeing Tania and Rhianna.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35"I did it, I did it, I did it."
0:21:35 > 0:21:37And, you know, hugging them.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Hugging them.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47You forget how many people are watching, cos you're there.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50You genuinely forget that it's centre court of the world
0:21:50 > 0:21:53and so when it all happened,
0:21:53 > 0:21:55I forgot where we were and I was just thinking about Mo
0:21:55 > 0:21:57and I was just like, "You did it."
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Like, I was in a bubble for the next ten minutes.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04It was just so...
0:22:04 > 0:22:08out of this world, almost.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Four years later now, we are trying to win another two gold medals
0:22:11 > 0:22:15and all them years, it's like, what's kept me going,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18what makes me keep fighting and keep coming out year after year
0:22:18 > 0:22:21is the feeling, that emotion,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24you know, you get, what I got from this track.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I like to shave my hair before my race
0:22:36 > 0:22:40just to feel nice and light and feel smooth.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Something I've always done. It's become like a superstition.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46It never was, because I used to have hair,
0:22:46 > 0:22:48but over the last kind of ten years
0:22:48 > 0:22:52I've been sort of just doing the same thing and sticking to it.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- COMMENTATOR:- They're not allowing Farah to control this.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Blankenship giving this a real good run.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01This is a brilliant performance from the American as well.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03And there goes Farah.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06He's got to keep working here, but he's got this one now.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Mo Farah stretching away.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10It won't be a record this time, but it is a win.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14His first of 2016.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Let's hope it's not the last.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Just after the race,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21just been spiked. I was working hard out there.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23I had to make a split decision
0:23:23 > 0:23:25whether I want to win the race or run a fast time.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29The most important thing was trying to win the race, which I did.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30I'm back in Scotland.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Last time I was second, this time I'm first.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Which I'm really happy about that.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Yes!
0:23:37 > 0:23:38What more can you say?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43My leg's... No, don't amputate it.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45- Just sort me out, Doc. - Take it off.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Look out for Daddy. When we see him,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01you're going to run up to him and give him a big hug and kiss, OK?
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- I see him.- You think you see him?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06There's Daddy.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Daddy!
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Three years before his success at London 2012,
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Mo moved his family to Portland,
0:24:14 > 0:24:16a centre of excellence for endurance running.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Hey, baba. Hey, baba.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Daddy. Daddy.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29- BARRY:- The thing that comes across with Mo, he wants to win,
0:24:29 > 0:24:31and Mo was successful as a junior
0:24:31 > 0:24:34but not as successful as others would have been.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36I think it was always there
0:24:36 > 0:24:39but he didn't necessarily know how to do it,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43and I think he had an opportunity around 2009, 2010 to make a change
0:24:43 > 0:24:47and he basically done what he thought was the right thing
0:24:47 > 0:24:48to win medals.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51He just needed to move into a professional training environment
0:24:51 > 0:24:53which was all about Mo Farah.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57I'd seen Mo come through the junior ranks.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01I'd seen him run extremely well, but I had seen limitations.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04He was always going to fall short at the very highest level.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06And he found in Alberto
0:25:06 > 0:25:11a world-class coach and somebody that could structure his programme.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14All right, so you average 4.37.5.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Alberto Salazar is considered to be one of the greatest
0:25:17 > 0:25:19endurance-running coaches of all time.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22The Oregon Project that he established 15 years ago
0:25:22 > 0:25:24revolutionised the way athletes compete.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27I started training back in 2010 with Alberto.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Alberto is known as a crazy coach.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32The first guy to ever come up with high-altitude training.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36He was the first guy to challenge the Ethiopians and the Kenyans,
0:25:36 > 0:25:38to say, what makes this guy so good?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41What do we need to do that they're doing?
0:25:41 > 0:25:44The Oregon Project, there's this thing that surrounds them,
0:25:44 > 0:25:48that people think they're doing all sorts of stuff, but no different
0:25:48 > 0:25:51than any professional team in the world is doing.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55It's science and medicine and technology.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Like altitude tents.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00It's a technological aid that's providing red cells.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02And then you've got things like caffeine
0:26:02 > 0:26:04that we know is a stimulant.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09It's nothing that's morally wrong, nothing that's banned.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Because we're up against the best people in the world,
0:26:12 > 0:26:15some of which have been cheating in the past, we know.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17That's the business we're in.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20And for me, it worked.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23The training I did has changed me 1% or 2%.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25That's all I needed to win medals.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Good morning. Are you ready to come down?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- Uh-oh.- Oh, man.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47It's a big one, isn't it?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50It's quite a big, brave thing to do,
0:26:50 > 0:26:55which is to up sticks and take a flight across eight time zones
0:26:55 > 0:26:58and base yourself somewhere entirely alien.
0:26:58 > 0:27:04I mean, he was so determined to succeed
0:27:04 > 0:27:07and to tap every ounce of the natural talent
0:27:07 > 0:27:09that he so clearly had.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Aaah!- Aaaah-rsenal.
0:27:11 > 0:27:16- What do you say? - Aaaa-rsenal.- Yeah!
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Despite making Portland his family home,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21his training and away schedule mean
0:27:21 > 0:27:24he's away from his wife and four children six months of every year.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28- You just eating that?- The baby was in a bassinet next to the bed
0:27:28 > 0:27:32and he was stirring at around 5:30 in the morning.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33I was rocking him
0:27:33 > 0:27:35and I went to kind of lean back
0:27:35 > 0:27:39and then something moved next to me and I freaked out.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40My heart just jumped.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44And it was Mo, and I was like, "Oh, yeah, he's back."
0:27:44 > 0:27:46SHE LAUGHS
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Is that better? Daddy did a good job?
0:27:49 > 0:27:55It's not an easy job for Mo just to go away for training.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59It's a lot. I mean, it's a big sacrifice, I'm telling you.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10- Daddy, where are we going? - We're going to school, baba.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16It was a decision we both made together.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19In fact, I encouraged it because we had to make a decision like this
0:28:19 > 0:28:22for Mo to benefit, really, with his running at that time.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25OK, I'm going to pick you up later, OK?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- Have fun.- Have fun, you two, OK?
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Gave me a kiss.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33Training impinges on every aspect of home life, even sleep.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Mo's bedroom features an altitude tent to replicate the oxygen levels
0:28:36 > 0:28:38he experiences at altitude.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41This is what it takes to be a champion, you know what I mean?
0:28:41 > 0:28:44It's more comfortable just sleeping in a normal bed, but I don't.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46It's a pain in the butt.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Sometimes he'll be like, "Night," and lift up the tent
0:28:48 > 0:28:51and we'll give each other a kiss and he'll put it back down again.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53Or sometimes we'll kiss through the tent.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Sometimes I'll be here and I'll be like...
0:28:55 > 0:28:57"Goodnight, babe. I can't come out."
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Or occasionally I just kind of lift up...
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Yeah, God, I forget about stuff like that.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15I'm just here at Rhianna's swimming club.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19This is where she swims and practises five times a week.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23I tried to push her into running.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26She didn't like it. She just didn't enjoy it.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30He went off to sixth form after school
0:29:30 > 0:29:33so that's when we started seeing less of each other.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36There was a couple of years where we just didn't have any contact really,
0:29:36 > 0:29:38I think, and that was when I had Rhianna
0:29:38 > 0:29:40and I was working full-time
0:29:40 > 0:29:43so I was just totally immersed in being there for Rhianna,
0:29:43 > 0:29:45supporting Rhianna, just supporting myself.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48So I grew up a lot in that couple of years.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51When I met Rhianna, she was three years old.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54She was a baby, and I've seen her, you know, grow up.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Now she's 11, so she's part of me.
0:30:00 > 0:30:01She's pretty good at swimming, too.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03She's naturally strong.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05But it's just, you know, one of those things.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09You could be good, have the talent, but how far can you push along?
0:30:10 > 0:30:13Some people I remember that I used to compete against
0:30:13 > 0:30:16had more talent than me, but, you know, they didn't train
0:30:16 > 0:30:18and they didn't make that crucial decision.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21- I'm on fire.- Concentrate, and stop talking.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23- He told us to go to the bathroom. - Listen, listen.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26You need to stop talking and start working.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33In June 2015,
0:30:33 > 0:30:37with his sport already suffering from a series of doping allegations,
0:30:37 > 0:30:38a bombshell hit the Farah household.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42This is a slightly unusual press conference
0:30:42 > 0:30:45in that it has been convened specially in response to
0:30:45 > 0:30:47the Panorama programme that appeared earlier this week.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49The nature of this programme
0:30:49 > 0:30:52was that there were a number of allegations made
0:30:52 > 0:30:55against Alberto Salazar and Galen Rupp.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58There were no allegations made against Mo Farah
0:30:58 > 0:31:01and that point was made throughout the programme.
0:31:01 > 0:31:02Question is answered.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07As an athlete, I don't want people to think Mo's on something,
0:31:07 > 0:31:08because I'm not.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11I'm a clean athlete, I'm against drugs, 100%,
0:31:11 > 0:31:16and I believe anyone caught with drugs should be banned for life.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19We had media turn up outside our house,
0:31:19 > 0:31:22and one particular reporter felt the need
0:31:22 > 0:31:25to ring the doorbell in the morning and start asking me questions,
0:31:25 > 0:31:27and was harassing us, and it was just awful
0:31:27 > 0:31:31because you just don't want the kids to see any of that.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36We felt violated and just so disappointed
0:31:36 > 0:31:41that your safe haven where you want to be normal,
0:31:41 > 0:31:45you suddenly are made to feel very different, and a target.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48I'm really angry at this situation.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51It's not fair, it's not right.
0:31:51 > 0:31:52Yet I haven't done anything,
0:31:52 > 0:31:55but my name's getting dragged through the mud.
0:31:57 > 0:32:02It's something not in my control, but I want to know answers.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05I need to know what's going on, what's what.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09It sucks. It really does.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13You know, we take a lot of comfort and we sleep well at night knowing
0:32:13 > 0:32:17that it's all down to graft and we, as a family,
0:32:17 > 0:32:20fully deserve everything that has come our way.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22My reputation's getting ruined.
0:32:22 > 0:32:23You guys, just...
0:32:23 > 0:32:26You're killing me. It's like, what have I done?
0:32:26 > 0:32:29Mo made his blood results available to demonstrate his innocence,
0:32:29 > 0:32:33but his association with Salazar continued to cast a shadow.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35I couldn't believe what was happening.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38You do the tests, you do everything right,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41but yet something that's not in your control...
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Any athlete, no matter who you are,
0:32:43 > 0:32:46you don't want to be associated with
0:32:46 > 0:32:48someone who is doing something or someone who's crossed a line.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51I've said always along that, if Alberto has crossed a line
0:32:51 > 0:32:54and he's done something that he's not supposed to do
0:32:54 > 0:32:57and IAAF or Wada or everyone tells us that,
0:32:57 > 0:32:59"Look, Alberto, you crossed the line,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02"this is the rules, this is what you did," then I'm out.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06But he actually never has crossed any lines
0:33:06 > 0:33:08and we're still waiting till this day to come out,
0:33:08 > 0:33:13the IAAF and Wada, to tell us what he actually done.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18After analysing Mo's performance data, British Athletics cleared Mo
0:33:18 > 0:33:20to continue to work with Alberto Salazar.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22The World Anti-Doping Authority
0:33:22 > 0:33:25have yet to release the findings of their investigation.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31It's nine days until Mo will compete in Cardiff in the half marathon.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33The meeting is critical, as it's the only time
0:33:33 > 0:33:36he will race his main competitors before Rio.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Yes, why don't you just jog, jog an 800?
0:33:41 > 0:33:43We don't need to wear spikes, obviously.
0:33:51 > 0:33:5210.2. Good.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54I don't believe in changing things too much.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57If something's been working, you try and keep doing it.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59And we're always trying to fine-tune things
0:33:59 > 0:34:03and get a little better. I work very closely with UK Athletics,
0:34:03 > 0:34:06with Barry Fudge and Neil Black. They have all Mo's workouts,
0:34:06 > 0:34:08everything he's done since he's been with me,
0:34:08 > 0:34:11so we constantly are always looking at those together as a team
0:34:11 > 0:34:14and the hope in the next month is, of course, to run well
0:34:14 > 0:34:17in the World Half Marathon Championships
0:34:17 > 0:34:19and the goal is to be ready in August
0:34:19 > 0:34:20so the emphasis will be on Rio.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Mo, are you feeling anything today? Like a stitch?
0:34:25 > 0:34:27I don't know, I'm just getting cramps.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34I've got a cramp. Why's that?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- A stitch?- Not a stitch, it's just like...
0:34:37 > 0:34:40I can't decide whether I need to shit or throw up.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Yeah. It feels like...
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Yeah, you should just take some antacid when you get home.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54Fuck me. Eurgh.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58The session is abandoned, but Mo is determined to continue training
0:34:58 > 0:35:01and switches to low-impact running on the underwater treadmill.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Even the water's making my stomach go cramp up.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22Eight days before the race now in Cardiff.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Going to try and run.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27I've just been on the phone to the coach and stuff.
0:35:27 > 0:35:28If I can't do the session
0:35:28 > 0:35:31then he thinks I should pull out of the race, which is...
0:35:31 > 0:35:34for me, it's pretty hard. I don't want to pull out the race.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37I'm not going to pull out the race. Can't do it.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42It's what you train for. It's what I train for.
0:35:42 > 0:35:46All year round. Six weeks in Ethiopia wasn't easy.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48All that mileage, come back home and do it,
0:35:48 > 0:35:52still doing it right and, you know, doing every day training.
0:35:57 > 0:36:0059.27.
0:36:00 > 0:36:01It's scary.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04That was tough. Just done a ten-mile in 59 minutes.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Scary, Daddy.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09Man, when you're not feeling well, it's a lot more harder
0:36:09 > 0:36:11than what it's supposed to be.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16Sweating a lot more than normal.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20But, you know, it's got to be done, so what can you do?
0:36:20 > 0:36:22Just not as well, so...
0:36:23 > 0:36:26But, you know, I have to train.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29I can't afford to have a day's rest where, you, you just sit on your...
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Sit on your backside and think the world's going to get better.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Or, you know, you're going to win races.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36Hey, Aishy.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38- How's Daddy running? Was Daddy running fast?- Yeah.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41The reality is when Mo sits back at the end of Rio
0:36:41 > 0:36:45and if he doesn't win and he hasn't worked his socks off,
0:36:45 > 0:36:48he will look back and go, "Why didn't I just kill myself?
0:36:48 > 0:36:49"I might have won this."
0:36:49 > 0:36:52So that's the thing that will be driving him forward all the time,
0:36:52 > 0:36:55that will be pushing him towards that line every single day.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03In athletics, the world's best rarely race each other
0:37:03 > 0:37:05outside of the major championships.
0:37:05 > 0:37:10A victory here will give Mo a distinct psychological advantage,
0:37:10 > 0:37:13but with his recent training disrupted, it's a huge gamble.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17Defeat will hand his rivals an advantage in Rio.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- ANNOUNCER:- The half marathon. Five times the world champion,
0:37:21 > 0:37:27twice the Olympic champion, the team captain for Great Britain, Mo Farah!
0:37:27 > 0:37:29CHEERING
0:37:29 > 0:37:31STARTING GUN FIRES
0:37:37 > 0:37:39This is the battle for bronze.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43This has been a moment that Geoffrey Kamworor...
0:37:43 > 0:37:46And look at Mo Farah.
0:37:46 > 0:37:47Ayele is hanging on.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50Mo Farah gets the bronze.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Third place. Mo's gamble has not paid off.
0:37:59 > 0:38:03Just straight through to the white tent, boys. Well done.
0:38:03 > 0:38:04Go ahead, boys.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10- Are you light-headed or are you all right?- No, I just feel dizzy.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15He's the target now, so
0:38:15 > 0:38:18the expectation is there before the race so you know what to expect.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21It could go either way in that there are very much two extreme feelings
0:38:21 > 0:38:25you would feel after a race, almost. It's all or nothing for Mo.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29What I think about is how he's going to feel at the end of a race.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31I'm disappointed. I've got a lot of work to do.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34I've got a lot of work to do in terms of, you know, just...
0:38:36 > 0:38:39..waking up a bit, and I think, in a way,
0:38:39 > 0:38:42this just wakes me up and it makes me even more hungry.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45Sometimes as a champion when you just keep winning and winning,
0:38:45 > 0:38:48maybe you're not as hungry and, in a way, today,
0:38:48 > 0:38:51even though, like, I know training hasn't gone smooth,
0:38:51 > 0:38:53deep down I've just thought, you know, I can turn up
0:38:53 > 0:38:56and do as well as I want and beat these guys.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00Bronze medal in the World Championship.
0:39:00 > 0:39:01I've gone... Years ago, I would have gone,
0:39:01 > 0:39:06"Oh, yeah, that's brilliant," but not any more, man. Not any more.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Ups and downs are only natural in track and field.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12It's how you deal with it, how you bounce back,
0:39:12 > 0:39:15and I think he's been through it all over the years,
0:39:15 > 0:39:20so I think he understands and knows what he needs to do to recover,
0:39:20 > 0:39:22to bounce back.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27After failure in Cardiff,
0:39:27 > 0:39:31Mo reacts by heading straight to an altitude-training camp in Arizona
0:39:31 > 0:39:33and decides to push himself harder than ever before.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40We've been delaying this run.
0:39:40 > 0:39:41Every evening run just...
0:39:41 > 0:39:43- Gets harder.- Yeah.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44See you later.
0:39:45 > 0:39:49Historically, Mo's biggest problem has been over-training.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53Now aged 33, it's more precarious than ever.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55This is becoming an increasing concern for his team.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57I don't think I've come across anyone
0:39:57 > 0:40:02who is more stubborn with something that he feels
0:40:02 > 0:40:04strongly about.
0:40:04 > 0:40:09Possibly he even knows that it's not the best thing to do,
0:40:09 > 0:40:12but he has to do it, because the easy option is do more,
0:40:12 > 0:40:15the easy option is to push harder
0:40:15 > 0:40:21to give yourself that kind of confirmation of how amazing you are.
0:40:21 > 0:40:26When sometimes the answer is to back off and just believe in yourself.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31Sometimes it's hard to explain to people
0:40:31 > 0:40:33what you do week in, week out.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36And what it takes to be Olympic champion.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39You know what I mean? You don't just...
0:40:39 > 0:40:43You don't just get up and, like, and become Olympic champion.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47It takes years of preparation and some people don't have a clue
0:40:47 > 0:40:48so...
0:40:50 > 0:40:52Some days you just want to get up and cry.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54I swear that.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57I get out my bed and I'm like, "Am I going to do it today?"
0:40:57 > 0:41:01But somehow, some way, you just end up getting through it,
0:41:01 > 0:41:03getting through it, not complaining about it.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05I'm not complaining. I love what I do.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08But there is days that I get up and I'm like,
0:41:08 > 0:41:10"How am I going to do it today? How is my body going to cope?"
0:41:12 > 0:41:14- Bang!- Oh!
0:41:14 > 0:41:16Whoo!
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Whoever loses buys dinner tonight.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24So here, we just moved in to our new pad.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28The boy's cooking. What have we got tonight?
0:41:28 > 0:41:31- Spag bol!- Spag bol!
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Every single person has cooked apart from Matt.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Guy's first time ever in a kitchen
0:41:35 > 0:41:37and he wants everyone in the whole house to be here.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40Come and see my room.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43I should probably...
0:41:43 > 0:41:44There's another sock there.
0:41:44 > 0:41:49If Tania saw my room, she'd be like, "This place is a mess!"
0:41:49 > 0:41:53When I'm at home, I never do any washing, I never do anything.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57So far, I've gone from four pairs of shoes...
0:41:57 > 0:42:00How many weeks I've been here? One, two, three, four,
0:42:00 > 0:42:02it's my fifth week.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05And they're pretty much... They're gone.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11Five weeks at altitude is starting to take its toll...
0:42:13 > 0:42:15..but Mo is not letting up.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17I've got a big session. Just me against the track, innit?
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Should be quite exciting.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22OK, let's go.
0:42:22 > 0:42:23The last five weeks,
0:42:23 > 0:42:25I've put my body through hell
0:42:25 > 0:42:28so it would be nice to get some kind of reward.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31MUSIC: Club Foot by Kasabian
0:42:47 > 0:42:48Oh, man.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51Bang it out.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54That's seven done.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58He's banked five weeks of 120 miles.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02It's going to make him pretty tired. All that fatigue's got to come out
0:43:02 > 0:43:04in the next week in order for him to run well.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07We don't want him to be too good too soon.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10At the same time, he wants to go out next week and kill everyone.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12He wants to go out and run something silly.
0:43:12 > 0:43:16Nobody even turns up to the Olympics thinking they're going to win.
0:43:16 > 0:43:17That's what he's got on his mind.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20MO PANTS
0:43:25 > 0:43:29Despite a successful session, there are concerns he is fatigued.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35Good day at the office?
0:43:35 > 0:43:37Yeah. Got to be done.
0:43:37 > 0:43:38Oh, man.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43It was... It was hard, but it's just like one of these things.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46What are you going to do? Are you going to think about it and go,
0:43:46 > 0:43:47"Oh, shit, I've got ten to go,"
0:43:47 > 0:43:49when you've done only a couple of them, and think,
0:43:49 > 0:43:51make it harder for yourself?
0:43:51 > 0:43:55Or are you going to go, "Well, has to be done,
0:43:55 > 0:43:58"you do it now or you come back again and do it next day"?
0:43:58 > 0:44:00Yeah, it's that adrenaline, isn't it?
0:44:00 > 0:44:03It's like I'm buzzing now. Mad Mo.
0:44:07 > 0:44:11Mo is in Eugene, Oregon, for the iconic Prefontaine 10k.
0:44:11 > 0:44:14It's his only 10,000-metre race ahead of Rio.
0:44:14 > 0:44:18All eyes will be on the race and Mo's performance.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21- Look at me! - And then she hangs upside down.
0:44:21 > 0:44:23I didn't know what to expect.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25SHE SINGS
0:44:37 > 0:44:39AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS
0:44:39 > 0:44:41- ANNOUNCER:- The Prefontaine Classic.
0:44:43 > 0:44:47Tonight is distance running at Hayward Field.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01This is the feeling you get. You're hot.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04This is what we've been training for.
0:45:06 > 0:45:1010k, let's go! 10k runners!
0:45:10 > 0:45:11Let's go!
0:45:28 > 0:45:29Come on, Dad!
0:45:32 > 0:45:36Barry Fudge initiated the phrase of "own the start line".
0:45:38 > 0:45:42There's absolutely no doubt, you know, since 2011,
0:45:42 > 0:45:46Mo has owned the start line, owned the track, owned the event.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48CHEERING
0:45:58 > 0:46:00STARTING GUN FIRES
0:46:00 > 0:46:02Come on! Go, Dad!
0:46:02 > 0:46:05- TANIA:- There's a lot more riding on his races.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Before, he was always seen as a bit of an underdog.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09It wasn't like now where
0:46:09 > 0:46:13he's expected to beat everybody and if he comes second, it's a big deal.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Dad!
0:46:21 > 0:46:24So now the feeling I get is just... I feel pressure.
0:46:26 > 0:46:29Just pressure, mostly, I think, when I watch him run.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34I just want it to be over.
0:46:36 > 0:46:41Everybody has that inner demon, that voice inside them saying,
0:46:41 > 0:46:45"You might not be as good. Somebody might be better."
0:46:45 > 0:46:47- COMMENTATOR:- Farah just checks if there's any other danger,
0:46:47 > 0:46:50but that's not where the danger is. It's ahead of him now.
0:46:52 > 0:46:56Mo Farah kicks again. The Kenyan gives it up, looks behind.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59CHEERING DROWNS COMMENTARY
0:46:59 > 0:47:04Mo Farah wins the Pre Classic 10,000 metres.
0:47:04 > 0:47:0626.53.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17- Happy?- No.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20- Why not?- It was all right. I wanted to run faster but it just...
0:47:20 > 0:47:23You got the win. You got the win. That's all that matters.
0:47:23 > 0:47:27That was scary. I thought he had it in the bag about halfway through
0:47:27 > 0:47:33and then he started to look tired with about ten laps to go.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36I'm not used to seeing that, so I was a bit nervous.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38And also, usually once he goes at the bell, that's it,
0:47:38 > 0:47:41no-one overtakes him, but with 200 to go,
0:47:41 > 0:47:44the other bloke went in front of him again, but he dug in.
0:47:44 > 0:47:47So hard to watch. So hard to watch.
0:47:47 > 0:47:49What's she doing?
0:47:49 > 0:47:51She just took all the sand and dumped it on her head.
0:47:51 > 0:47:52Oh, my goodness.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Although Mo has won the race,
0:47:54 > 0:47:56the nature of his victory is uncharacteristic.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59The concerns regarding over-training are mounting.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02You've been training so hard and pushing.
0:48:02 > 0:48:06You need a good two weeks before you're going to run.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09I mean, last week, you ran, what, 120?
0:48:09 > 0:48:12- 120, yeah.- Man.- I just felt like...
0:48:12 > 0:48:13Yeah, your legs are dead.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16In the end, it's going to come down to
0:48:16 > 0:48:21is he willing to back off and do a little bit less at times,
0:48:21 > 0:48:24to not push quite so hard all the time?
0:48:24 > 0:48:28He's never going to sit there and think, "I've got this."
0:48:28 > 0:48:31No, it's fascinating, isn't it?
0:48:31 > 0:48:32Even he doesn't think...
0:48:32 > 0:48:35- Never.- It's still like...
0:48:37 > 0:48:38"I wonder if..."
0:48:40 > 0:48:42You've surprised me a million times,
0:48:42 > 0:48:46running really fast when I didn't think you were going to.
0:48:46 > 0:48:47But this time, this is the first time
0:48:47 > 0:48:49you've ever trained this hard, this close.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51- Yeah.- That's the difference.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02- OK. Say goodnight, everybody. - Goodnight, everybody.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04All right. Lie down.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06Mo listens to his coaching team
0:49:06 > 0:49:08and takes a week off training.
0:49:08 > 0:49:09Tuck it right in.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11I know you can't.
0:49:15 > 0:49:16And strike, boom!
0:49:16 > 0:49:20MUSIC: The Man In Me by Bob Dylan
0:49:28 > 0:49:29Oh!
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Oh!
0:49:36 > 0:49:38How many games are we playing?
0:49:38 > 0:49:40As many as it takes to humiliate you.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Oh! Oh!
0:49:49 > 0:49:51He got two strikes!
0:49:51 > 0:49:54I missed that. You could still catch me.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58If you nailed all three of your last goes, you could do it.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08Oh, my God.
0:50:08 > 0:50:09Oh, one more point!
0:50:11 > 0:50:12What?!
0:50:12 > 0:50:16This is what I mean! This is the shit I'm talking about.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19- No!- All I need to do...
0:50:19 > 0:50:22This is probably the best score I have ever had.
0:50:24 > 0:50:25Oh!
0:50:28 > 0:50:30SHE LAUGHS
0:50:30 > 0:50:34All right, I'm going to just sit here and enjoy my chicken wings now.
0:50:36 > 0:50:41It's such an adjustment having Mo back after being away for so long.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44Suddenly everything stops,
0:50:44 > 0:50:45like literally everything stops,
0:50:45 > 0:50:48but in a good way, and it's like I don't know what to do with myself.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50And then the same when you leave again.
0:50:50 > 0:50:52It's just the adjustment.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55It's hard for you too, but you just have a different challenge.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58When you're training, does it ever cross your mind
0:50:58 > 0:51:04that what if at the end of this, I don't even do half as good?
0:51:04 > 0:51:06- Does that ever cross your mind? - Of course it does.
0:51:06 > 0:51:10That you might not win? You never know when you're beat.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13You never want to lose. You never want to hang it up.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16- Never want to lose anything. - You just want to keep going.
0:51:16 > 0:51:21So I just... Every year I just get more surprised.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23I think I know you, and you surprise me again.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28And you keep doing it, so at what point...?
0:51:28 > 0:51:31I'm just curious sometimes. I want to know like, what...
0:51:31 > 0:51:32Even I want to know...
0:51:33 > 0:51:35..how you tick.
0:51:44 > 0:51:48Nine days after Eugene, Mo is returning to Birmingham,
0:51:48 > 0:51:51the event he withdrew from last year after the allegations
0:51:51 > 0:51:54surrounding his coach Alberto Salazar surfaced.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56I'm going to bless these bad boys.
0:52:00 > 0:52:01Let's kick some butt.
0:52:12 > 0:52:14The nerves are really kicking in.
0:52:14 > 0:52:16Dropping everything, shaking.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22- JOURNALIST:- Two months to go to Rio - how are you feeling overall
0:52:22 > 0:52:25about your preparations for the Olympic Games?
0:52:25 > 0:52:27It's not long to go to Rio at all.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30Last week, I raced in the 10,000.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33I did good, I did OK. I wanted to actually run a little bit faster
0:52:33 > 0:52:35than what I did, but it was OK. It's where it's at.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37So are you going to go for Dave Moorcroft's record?
0:52:37 > 0:52:40Conditions is good, so I'll see how it goes.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Yeah, I'm really excited to be here in Birmingham.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46I was supposed to race last year. It didn't quite happen.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50All the stuff was kicking off about Alberto and I wanted questions,
0:52:50 > 0:52:53I wanted answers so I got on a flight back because I was just like,
0:52:53 > 0:52:54my head was just messed up.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56I just wasn't... Wasn't ready.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00I didn't know what to do.
0:53:00 > 0:53:01Have I taken anything?
0:53:01 > 0:53:03No. Have I crossed a line?
0:53:03 > 0:53:05No. It wasn't me, you know?
0:53:06 > 0:53:09It's not good to blame people, but it just felt like...
0:53:10 > 0:53:13..I couldn't answer anything that was going on.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17At the end of the day, you've just got to keep going for
0:53:17 > 0:53:21what you're going for and there's going to be things
0:53:21 > 0:53:23that are out of your control sometimes but...
0:53:23 > 0:53:25that's all part of the process.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28Hopefully heading for a quick time.
0:53:28 > 0:53:31A big 10,000 metres in Eugene last week.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34It's just a question of if that 10,000 took a lot out of him.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36Mo Farah means this. He's picking it up here.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Oh! He's done it!
0:53:42 > 0:53:467.32.62.
0:53:47 > 0:53:51It's a British record by a tenth of a second.
0:53:51 > 0:53:52- How are you doing?- Well done.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59- See you later.- All right.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03Mo holds all the British records from 1,500 metres,
0:54:03 > 0:54:053,000 metres, 5,000, 10,000 metres.
0:54:05 > 0:54:08But when he broke the 1,500 metres record, everyone in athletics went,
0:54:08 > 0:54:10"Wow, my God, look how good..."
0:54:10 > 0:54:12Because that was Steve Cram's record
0:54:12 > 0:54:15and when Steve did it, it was the world record.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17What is the plans between now and Rio?
0:54:17 > 0:54:21Training's been going pretty well so believe in myself
0:54:21 > 0:54:22and, you know, what I'm trying to do
0:54:22 > 0:54:24is something that's never been done before.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26- Well done.- All right, man?
0:54:26 > 0:54:29'In London, there wasn't the same level of expectation
0:54:29 > 0:54:30- 'that there is now.'- It was hard.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34'In 2012, it was getting a guy to the level where he could compete
0:54:34 > 0:54:35'and win those medals.'
0:54:35 > 0:54:39Now it's keeping him at that level and dealing with the expectation
0:54:39 > 0:54:41that he has to deal with every day. It's quite big.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44So there's not many people out there that don't expect him
0:54:44 > 0:54:46to win two gold medals this summer,
0:54:46 > 0:54:48apart from a couple of Ethiopians and Kenyans.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52It's the last race of the season before the Olympics.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54The London Anniversary Games,
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Mo's last chance to see how his training has gone
0:54:57 > 0:54:59before the final countdown to Rio begins.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03All shaved up, all ready to go.
0:55:03 > 0:55:07I feel all right. I worked hard for this so, just, you know,
0:55:07 > 0:55:10it's another test and I just get nervous talking about London
0:55:10 > 0:55:12cos I just feel...
0:55:13 > 0:55:17The Olympic Games was in my hometown and life has changed since then
0:55:17 > 0:55:19and this track is pretty amazing.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26Since January, it's been a pretty long journey.
0:55:28 > 0:55:33But things have turned around quite a lot and I'm happy where I am.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36Coming back from, you know, Eugene was good
0:55:36 > 0:55:38and then coming back in Birmingham,
0:55:38 > 0:55:40I broke the British record,
0:55:40 > 0:55:43so it's just one last hurdle where I've got to get through this race,
0:55:43 > 0:55:45win the race hopefully, see what I can do,
0:55:45 > 0:55:47and then...
0:55:47 > 0:55:50God, Rio. Rio in a few weeks' time.
0:55:50 > 0:55:51Man.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54It's nerve-racking.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58There's more expectation, there's more pressure.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00He's going in as a double Olympic champion
0:56:00 > 0:56:01and a five-time world champion.
0:56:01 > 0:56:04He's never gone into any championship with that pressure.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07It's so hard staying at the top and I know what goes into it
0:56:07 > 0:56:09and I know that he's a target,
0:56:09 > 0:56:13and he's just able to maintain that like an animal, almost.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16He's just guarding that top spot and no-one's coming near it.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19CHEERING
0:56:19 > 0:56:23I've run so many miles. I've done, week-in, week-out, 120 miles.
0:56:23 > 0:56:26I've done everything that I CAN do. I don't think I can do any more.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33He is unquestionably one of the very best.
0:56:33 > 0:56:35You've got a whole generation of young people
0:56:35 > 0:56:39that are looking at athletics, looking at Mo Farah and thinking,
0:56:39 > 0:56:42"Actually, distance running is quite cool."
0:56:42 > 0:56:45He's working hard, he's going extremely fast
0:56:45 > 0:56:49but this is not a last-lap sprint, this is an endurance run.
0:56:49 > 0:56:52It's all about getting your name in the history books
0:56:52 > 0:56:54and making people remember you for the work you've done.
0:56:54 > 0:56:58But he's going to be remembered as one of the best in the sport.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01I'm proud of him. Just amazing, you know.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03And he's doing, you know, just what I didn't do.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06I had my own time and he's had his own time.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08You know, this is Mo's time.
0:57:08 > 0:57:12- COMMENTATOR:- Watching the clock, Mo Farah coming to the line.
0:57:12 > 0:57:16He's going to win the 5,000 metres and it's in under 13 minutes.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18His arms go in the air.
0:57:18 > 0:57:22A world-leading time over the 5,000 metres.
0:57:33 > 0:57:38Amazing, amazing. It's what I wanted to do all season, you know?
0:57:38 > 0:57:41I just had to taper well and it was good, it was good.
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I did what I needed to do, so Rio now.
0:57:44 > 0:57:45Rio's on.