Mo Farah announces RETIREMENT from track athletics aged 39 but reveals he will run at 2022 London Marathon in October
MO FARAH will run the London Marathon in October but has called time on his track career.
And while he is taking inspiration from tennis star Andy Murray’s evergreen exploits, Farah will NOT race at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Brit Farah, who turned 39 in March, has signed up for a 26.2-mile stint in the capital this autumn.
He has refused to say if this will be his swan song year, even though the London Marathon returns to the spring slot in 2023.
Yet he will not be involved in any of the three major championships this summer — the Worlds, Commonwealths and Europeans.
Farah, who won four Olympic gold medals on the track, said: “I don’t have any plans yet.
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“My aim is to complete a half marathon, tune myself, and then compete at the London Marathon on October 2 and see how my body is.
“I’m not doing any more track. That is it.
“I love to be competitive with others, it’s the reason I’m not going to the World Champs or Europeans.
"If I can’t be competitive with these guys, there’s no point in going.”
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Farah failed to qualify for last year’s Tokyo Olympics and was beaten by a club runner at the Vitality 10k in May.
And he has told his family he will not run in the French capital for a fourth Olympics.
The Londoner said: “I’ve watched tennis and Andy Murray still has that fight in him but his body doesn’t allow him.
“My kids asked me, ‘dad, dad, when are the next Olympics?’ I said I won’t be doing them.
“My body cannot do what it did.”