Lagat hails golden boy Farah as ‘unbeatable’

After Mo Farah’s success in the 5,000m at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, American athlete Bernard Lagat has hailed him to be close to unbeatable.

By Oliver Scullion

Published 5th Sep 2011, 17:32 BST

“Mo Farah is a strong athlete,” said Lagat. “He said he wanted to put himself in a winning position and he did.”

The American also revealed he expected the British athlete to win the gold medal in Sunday’s final.

“I knew with the way he ran there was no way he was going to get beaten,” Lagat added.

“I got myself boxed in, which was as frustrating as hell. I tried to push and tried to go hard, but when somebody’s running 25 or 24 (seconds for the last 200m) what I am supposed to do - run 22?

“It’s really hard to run 22 in order to catch him. I tried to catch Mo Farah but he had already gone.”

Victory was a great lift for Farah after his disappointment for settling for a silver medal in the 10,000m final, when he was overtaken in the last 30m by Ethiopan Ibrahim Jeilan.

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