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Olympic great Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to UK at age 9, forced to be child servant

Great Britain's Mo Farah celebrates after winning the One Hour Men at the Diamond League Memorial Van Damme athletics event at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels on September 4, 2020. Farah set a new world record. © Francisco Seco, AP Photo

Olympic great Mo Farah was illegally trafficked to Britain at the age of nine from Djibouti and forced to work as a child servant, he has revealed, saying his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.

The distance runner was flown to the UK from the east African country aged eight or nine by a woman he had never met, given the name Mohammed Farah, and then made to look after another family’s children, he tells a BBC TV documentary “The Real Mo Farah” to be aired Wednesday.

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