There is a powerful argument to say, after 10 straight global championship victories stretching back to the 2011 world 5,000 metres triumph in Daegu, that the 34-year-old is the greatest distance racer we have ever seen on the track. Yet being considered the best racer is very different from being seen as the greatest distance athlete of all-time. Sebastian Coe, the IAAF President and a massive fan of Farah, set the ball rolling when declaring in Friday's Evening Standard newspaper that Haile Gebrselassie was the greatest. "When it comes to the debate on the greatest distance runner of all time, I'm tough on this," said Coe, who himself is in the shake-up for the title best middle-distance runner of them all. "For me, it's not Mo Farah — and that's not to do a disservice to Mo, who is one of the greats of all time.

Source: Economic Times August 12, 2017 22:18 UTC