No sooner had the final race of Mo Farah’s career come to an end on Sunday than the eulogies began. “Thanks for the memories, the medals, the excitement, the smile, the Mobot, it’s all been memorable,” the BBC’s Steve Cram proclaimed after Farah had finished fourth in the Great North Run, before hailing him as “one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen”.
It was a celebration worthy of a deity: varnished, soaked in saccharine, shaved of any rough edges. And incomplete.
