Fantasy gaffer Mo planned team before Olympic final

BySportsbeat

Published 10/09/2016 at 10:53 GMT

Mo Farah has revealed what he was doing just minutes before walking onto the track to make Olympic history - and it's not what you think.

Eurosport

Image credit: Eurosport

He wasn't 'visualising' or disappearing into 'the zone' with his headphones clamped on.

Instead the mad-keen Arsenal fan was thinking about football.

"I shouldn't be saying this but before my final I was trying to do my fantasy football team," he told DJ Nick Grimshaw.

Athletics

Hug on overcoming collision with barrier to win men's wheelchair race at Boston Marathon

00:01:40

19 hours ago

"It wouldn't let me do it due to the time difference. I didn't start it in the end. I missed two weeks of it and I thought, 'I can't do it now!'.

"I'm just a normal person so obviously you listen to the radio, listen to music, check out Twitter. You always do the normal things." Farah became Britain's most successful ever track Olympian as he defended his 5,000m and 10,000m titles in Rio, the first man to achieve that feat since the legendary Lasse Viren.

Sportsbeat 2016

Athletics