Mo Farah set to retire from track after 2017

Mo Farah is looking to bow out of track competition next year before switching to the roads, including trying to “learn” how to run the marathon, the double Olympic champion has said.

The British 5000m and 10,000m record-holder could add two more global track titles at next year’s World Championships in London, but as he would then be 34 he wants to then quit the track circuit to spend more time with his family.

“I love what I do, but I’m away six months of the year so I’m only [at home] half the time,” he said. Earlier he had explained: “The hardest …

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