Sir Mo Farah is looking forward to ending his career at the
'incredible' Great North Run on Sunday. The four-time Olympic champion announced earlier this year that his last event will be at the famous North East half-marathon, in which 60,000 participants will be running.Farah has won the Great North Run six times previously and is excited to bring the curtain down on the streets of Tyneside for one last time this weekend.
get the race out of the way and just enjoy it,' he added. 'I'm looking forward to it, when you're an elite athlete you expect to be at the front, to be competitive with others and my body hasn't been able to do that for the last couple of years.'That's what for me was really important, when you're not performing at your best anymore and getting on a bit, it's very important that you end it at some point.
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