Mo Farah, the first British track and field athlete to win four Olympic gold medals, said in a stunning revelation for his country and sport that he had been trafficked to the United Kingdom as a child under a false name.
“Most people know me as Mo Farah, but it’s not my name, or it’s not the reality,” he said in a BBC documentary scheduled to be released on Wednesday.
“The real story is I was born in Somaliland, north of Somalia, as Hussein Abdi Kahin. Despite what I’ve said in the past, my parents never lived in the U.