MOSCOW, Jul 12 smuggled into the UK by human traffickers and worked as a domestic worker. He revealed that Mohamed Farah was not his birth name, his name was Hussein Abdi Kahin. According to the athlete, he was brought to the UK by a woman whom he had never met before and with whom he was not related. She had with her fake documents with the name «Mohamed Farah» and his photo. In London, she took away all the contact details of Farah's relatives and threatened the boy.
"For many years I just blocked these memories, but you can't block them for that long. Often I would lock myself in the bathroom and cry", — Farah is quoted by the BBC.
Farah was not allowed to go to school for the first years in the UK, but at the age of about 12 he entered the seventh grade of the community college. The staff of the institution were told that the boy was a refugee from Somalia. He ended up telling the gym teacher about his real identity, his background and the family he was forced to work for, after which the teacher contacted social services and helped him get into a Somali family. «Sport was a lifeline. The only thing I could I did to get out of this situation — get out and run. I still missed my real family, but since the moment (moving) everything has become better. I felt that a lot had been lifted off my shoulders, and I felt like myself. Here then Mo came out — the real Mo,» added Fara. Fara won gold medals in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro. He is also a six-time world champion and a five-time European champion.