Usain Bolt accepts Mo Farah's charity challenge

 
Back in action: Jamaica's Usain Bolt races to victory in the men's 100 metres at the Olympic park
PA
Agency29 July 2013

British Olympic hero Mo Farah's challenge to Usain Bolt, to run an intermediate distance race, has been accepted by the fastest man in the world.

Bolt and Farah, who struck up a special connection during the London 2012 Olympic Games where both won two gold medals in individual races, could raise money for their own foundations by going head to head at the rarely run distance.

Farah said yesterday: "He's got his charity foundation, I've got the Mo Farah Foundation. It would be great to do a distance where people vote in - proper athletics fans - on what distance they think is most suitable."

He's back: Mo Farah does the MoBot celebration for photographers during day two of the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games
Getty

He then told Bolt: "Are you up for that? Come on, you've got to do it."

Thirty-year-old Farah, Olympic champion at 5,000m and 10,000m, said the distance would have to be between 600m and 800m.

"Let's get it on," Farah said.

Bolt replied, saying: "That sounds fun. It's going to be hard but it's charity so it's all about fun and enjoyment.

"I'm up for anything, for anything's possible."

In an interview shown on Sky News, Bolt, world record holder at 100m and 200m, said running 1500m would be out of the question.

"It's way too far," he said. "Six hundred (metres) for sure I can try because I've done 600m in training."

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in