The much revered Mo Farah, the most successful UK track athlete ever, winner of four Olympic Golds, is embroiled in an extraordinary tit for tat argument on the eve of the London Marathon tomorrow where he hopes to topple champion Eliud Kipchoge. Farah said he had thousands of pounds stolen when he was staying in an Ethiopian hotel owned by former long-distance runner Haile Gebreselassie; and in response there are allegations of a physical fist fight involving Farah and allegations about his association with a coach being investigated in an anti-doping operation, both of which he denies.
He’s only an outside chance of beating Kipchoge who set the world record of two hours one minute 39 seconds in Berlin in September – three and a half minutes faster than Farah’s best.
Farah was born 23 March 1983 in Somalia and came to the UK when he was 8. He’s a Sun Aries in a lucky and adventurous trine to Jupiter Uranus in Sagittarius. But what marks his chart out and stiffens his spine is an ultra-determined, ruthless Mars in Aries opposition Pluto; with his Pluto in an unyielding conjunction to Saturn in obsessive Scorpio opposition Venus in Taurus. He appears to thrive on crises.
He certainly looks fairly teeth-gritted over the next several years with some hitches and glitches early next month from tr Uranus opposition his Saturn and then conjunct his Venus; plus a Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his Uranus this year; and the tail end of a frustrating tr Pluto square his Mars also this year. 2020/21/22/23 look nerve stretched and exceptionally pressured.
Eliud Kipchoge, known as the greatest marathon runner of modern times has won 11 out of the 12 distance races he has entered. Born 5 November 1984, Kenya, he’s no slouch with an ultra-determined Sun Saturn in Scorpio sextile Mars; and Pluto sextile Jupiter; with Uranus, Venus, Neptune in sporty Sagittarius.