You watched him run, with that gazelle’s stride. You watched him run and always had the impression that he was running away not from a lion. But it gives something worse. From the memory of the famefrom the fear that violence and misery could recur in his life. Well, it was true. With a tragic note: Mo Farahsubject of Her British Majesty, four Olympic golds on 5 thousand and 10 thousand meters, six times World Championalso escaped from the nightmare of slavery. It was the person concerned, now 39, who told the chilling truth in an interview with the BBC.
The name. Baby in one Somalia devastated since the civil war, the champion had always said that he arrived with his family in the United Kingdom. But things hadn’t turned out like that. “In reality my name is Hussein Abdi Kahin – explained the Olympian -. My father had died under the bombs and I was entrusted to a woman who, via Djibouti, had to take me to Great Britain by some relatives. a clandestine to all effects. But when we arrived, this woman tore my papers in front of my eyes and forced me to work as a servant. I had to clean up her apartment. In return, they gave me food and a bed to sleep in. She said to me: if you want to have a hope of seeing your loved ones again, don’t talk to anyone. I only had nine years…”.
Little slave, Mo Farah, that is Hussein Abdi Kahin, for years has kept the secret, nailed by fear. For years he claimed to have been accompanied to West London by his father, who was instead buried somewhere in Somalia. The race was his salvation, but that past, really, perhaps never passed.