Mo Farah was frantically putting together his fantasy football team minutes before claiming Rio 2016 gold

MO FARAH was playing fantasy football just minutes before winning one of his Olympic gold medals at Rio 2016. 

Farah won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m events to seal a historic 'double double',  and become Britain's greatest-ever track Olympian.

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But the 33-year-old Farah revealed how he had other things on his mind while putting on his spikes, with the new football season about the begin.

Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on , the Arsenal fan admitted: '' I shouldn't be saying this but before my final I was trying to do my fantasy football team."

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"It wouldn't let me do it due to the time difference.''

"I didn't start it in the end. I missed two weeks of it and I thought, 'I can't do it now."