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When is Mo Farah racing? Brit to compete in UK one last time at Birmingham Diamond League

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MO FARAH may have bid an emotional farewell to the London Stadium on Saturday but he still has one more track meet left in the UK before he moves to the road.

Farah said goodbye to the stadium where he won two Olympic gold medals in 2012 with a silver in the World Athletics Championships 5,000m final.

The 34-year-old took a lap of honour in what he had long marked as his final major championships on the track.

He will soon turn to focus on marathon training but has two more track meets to attend with the first coming on Sunday in Birmingham.

Farah will run just 3,000m alongside fellow British 5,000m finalist Andrew Buchart in a race he is widely expected to win at the Diamond League meeting although Spaniard Adel Mechaal has come within 0.13s of the six-time world champion’s season’s best over this distance.

Nevertheless, Farah should be able run his last ever track race in the UK without too many worries about failing to win with his signature sprint-finish over the last 400m likely to be enough to overcome a field that lacks any real quality because this is a non-championship distance.

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