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Malik Ouzia

Ben Ainslie interview: GB sailing legend talks Mo Farah, London 2012 legacy, new race approach and more

Ben Ainslie returns to unfamiliar waters in Plymouth this weekend

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Ben Ainslie is sat on the rooftop of London’s Sea Containers building, a rather agricultural name which undersells what is these days a fairly swanky hotel and restaurant on the South Bank of the Thames.

It is the morning before a BBC documentary entitled ‘The Real Mo Farah’ is due to air, and conversation quickly turns to the remarkable revelation that the distance-running great was trafficked to the UK as a child under the name of another boy.

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