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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Green

Sir Mo Farah ‘grateful to be able to embrace UK’ after revelations about past

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Sir Mo Farah has said he is “relieved” the Home Office will not take action against him after he revealed he was trafficked into the UK, adding: “I’m just grateful for every chance I’ve got in Britain to embrace my country.”

The four-time Olympic champion, 39, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he has no desire to contact the woman who brought him illegally to the country as a child.

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