The wonderful Mo Farah has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year much to his surprise, since he was trailing in the polls.
From an earlier post: He is the most successful British athlete ever, with gold medals for the 10,000 and 5000 metres at two Olympics and ten global titles in all. He is now considering moving onto marathon running.
Born 23 March 1983 in Somalia, he came to the UK aged 8 with his father and family leaving his sick twin brother behind who wasn’t fit to travel. In recent years he has trained in Portland, Oregon where he has a house, with coach Alberto Salazar. Doping allegations against Salazar have never been proved and have left Farah bitter about the media damaging his legacy.
He has an Aries Sun square Neptune (very common amongst top sportsmen that Neptune); with his Sun trine a lucky Uranus Jupiter in Sagittarius and inconjunct an obsessive Saturn in Scorpio conjunct Pluto, so perseverance is what he thrives on. On top of that he has Mars in Aries opposition Pluto which has enabled him to undergo the most brutal training and challenging lifestyle to reach and stay at the top in distance running.
His switch to longer distances may not be that easy since his tr Pluto will pick up the frustrating, blocked square to his Mars from early 2018 for two years. Plus some accident-prone Uranus transits to two Mars midpoints into spring 2018. He will get a confidence lift from tr Pluto trine his Jupiter/Node midpoint in 2018/19. But he’s got a tough chart, is not short of determination and will certainly hit a high in about five years time, when he may have changed tack.