Rio Olympics 2016: Mo Farah admits he won his fourth Olympic gold medal by resting up in his room and doing NOTHING
MO FARAH has admitted that doing NOTHING was the crucial difference between his fourth Olympic gold and nowhere.
The Brit has now clinched the 5,000 metres and 10,000m double at consecutive Games after a thrilling sprint finish over the smaller distance.
But he reckoned it was sitting in his room and resting which helped win him a fourth Olympic title.
And the 33-year-old now has a Games gold for each of his four children - just as he had promised to do before his trip out to Brazil.
He said: "After the 10k I was feeling tired and I didn't know how I would recover. I stayed in my room, with just people bringing me food and resting up.
"But I can't believe I did it. It's every athlete's dream, but I can't believe it, it hasn't sank in.
"[I had to] keep people at bay for four years. I didn't just fluke it in London, then I did it again here.
"I just want to go home now and see my beautiful kids. I just want to hang the medals around their necks.
"Hussein, I got him this medal - and that's what drives me. Rhianna's got a medal, Aisha and Amani have got a medal."
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Farah admitted that the Ethiopian runners caught him slightly off-guard earlier in the race as they set a fast pace in the first few laps as the field was strung out.
That meant the Brit had to do some work to slowly move his way to the front of the race before he got there in the final two laps.
He added: "I was a bit surprised actually, first lap. I thought it was going to be a slow race and they went out quite hard. They had the plan, I didn't know what they were going to plan together.
"I've got a faster pace in the last lap, but they just wanted to take the sting out of me. But I had to be patient, work my way through and control it.
"When I hit the front I wasn't going to let anyone past me.
"I hate to lose, as a kid even in P.E. I hated to lose. I don't know, I just have that drive and I think it's something I was born with. It's just me.
"I remember Kenenisa Bekele winning medals and I wished I could just have one medal.
"It's been a long journey, but if you dream of something, you have ambitions and you're willing to work hard, you can achieve your dreams.
"It's something I've been working hard on for years and years.
"And sometimes you have disappointment, you've got to take it and learn from it. And each race I take something and learn from it, if it's good or if it's bad. That's what got me there.
"I don't see my kids and for me I wasn't going to miss out anything, I wanted to do it for them and that's what drives me.
"All that time, I'm never going to make up that time I missed. But at the same time if I can achieve something in my career, it's for them and that's what drives me."