The 2010 decade’s 61 greatest athletes

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Mo Farah

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British runner Mo Farah is the 2012 and ’16 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. Farah is the second athlete in modern Olympic Games history, after Lasse Virén, to win both the 5,000m and 10,000m titles at successive Olympic Games. He also completed the “distance double” at the 2013 and ’15 World Championships.