Mo Farah wins 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award

Mo Farah and his family, at his final Prefontaince Classic visit, June 2017, photo by PhotoRun.net

Mo finished third in the 2011 version of the BBC Sports Personality of Year. Since then, especially in years like 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Mo Farah not only did not win in the following years. The last time a track athlete won? You have to go back to Dame Kelly Holmes in 2004, after her 800m/1500m wins in Athens. The last time a male track athlete won? Remember that triple jumper Jonathan Edwards? Yep! After his WRs in Goteborg in 1995, Jonathan was last British male athletics star to win BBC Sports Personality of Year.

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The final steps of Mo Farah, in his final track race, end in victory, Zurich 2017, photo by PhotoRun.net

Mo was not there. He was watching his four kids, one dealing with a bout of vomiting, as his wife is back in Portland packing up their boxes as they complete the move back from Portland to London. But Mo, with his daughter Rhianna watching the sick Hussein right there, did a live interview from St. Mary’s University in Twickenham right after the upset award!

Congrats to Mo Farah! An award well earned.

Unbelievable night thank you everyone for voting for me tonight amazing wow….!!! #sporty #london #onemomile
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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