Sir Mo Farah is a national treasure in the U.K. The Somalia-born hero of the 2012 London Olympics — he won gold in both the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races — is one of the most accomplished athletes in British history.
In 2017, Queen Elizabeth knighted Farah for his service to sports. For most of Farah's time in the spotlight, fans believed that he had arrived in the U.K.
with his family as a refugee. That's the story he told on talk shows and in his 2013 autobiography, Twin Ambitions. But that wasn't the truth.
In a 2022 documentary, Farah reveals that strangers trafficked him to the U.K. to work as a domestic servant when he was just nine years old.
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