Sports star Farah reveals that he lied about his identity – Athletics

The famous long-distance runner has announced that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.

“That’s why I’m sharing my story, because I finally want to feel normal and not hold anything back,” said the runner.

Kahin, who has been knighted for sporting excellence in England, revealed he was abducted from his native Somalia at the age of nine and smuggled to Britain.

Until now, the athlete put forward a man named Muktar as his father, who works in an IT agency and had lived for some time in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, where he met the athlete’s mother.

Kahin opened the curtain on a much darker story regarding his real father. The athlete’s father was actually a man named Abdi, who died in a civil war conflict when Kahin was only four years old.

The boy’s mother gave him to relatives who lived in a safer area. However, with the help of a relative, Kahin was illegally transferred to Great Britain, where he worked as a babysitter and did other household chores.

“The hardest part is admitting that someone in my family may have been involved in moving me,” the runner said.

Kahin could not stand it and complained about what was happening to the school representatives, and then the social workers started their work. It should be noted that the family he served allowed the future athlete to go to school only from the age of 12.

For the next seven years, the future athlete was taken care of by his mother’s sister, Kinsey.

The athlete faced his first problems at the age of 14, when he participated in competitions in Latvia.

“There was no clarity about Muhammad’s immigration status. He had no documentation. We started working on a passport with Muhammad Farah’s name on it. British citizenship was difficult,” recalls Alan Watkinson, the runner’s teenage coach.

Kahin made no secret of the fact that he is now worried about his status as a British citizen, given that he has publicly admitted to identity fraud.

However, the British Immigration Service has issued a statement that Kahin has no reason to worry about complications related to citizenship.

Kahin has won four Olympic golds during his career, winning the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2012 Olympics and the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2016 Olympics.