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Doubts over Britain’s most decorated athlete will be addressed across 25 laps in Manchester on Friday night but reservations about the quality of the wider team heading to Tokyo will linger a while longer.
With the notable exception of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, all of the obvious candidates for medals in Japan will be competing at the Olympic trials over the coming three days. The problem is that those candidates would not stretch very far across a standard track, even in this era of social distancing.
All of which heightens the intrigue around Sir Mo Farah, who for the better part of a decade was the team’s best guarantee of success. More recently he has started to resemble a man of 38 and by extension Friday night is his final chance to achieve the 10,000m qualifying time for Tokyo.
Sir Mo Farah must achieve the 10,000m qualifying time for Tokyo on Friday night
In his prime the four-time Olympic champion could be expected to easily beat the time of 27min 28sec but such were his difficulties in his first attempt in Birmingham on June 5, there would be a sense of surprise if he now pulls it off in Manchester.
His disclosure in Birmingham of a minor injury
