Why doesn’t Mo Farah represent for Somalia? Is this a serious question? This is a classic example of trying to take all the credit but do none of the work. Whether you like or not it was the British system that turn mo farah into a world class athlete not the Somali one. They gave him the coaching, training, development, funding etc. when mo farah was a struggling athlete during his teens/early 20s it was the british system that was giving him support not the Somali. If mo farah decides to rep Somalia are Somalis going to provide the world class coaching, training facilities, funding, opportunities? This is the type of the stuff that produces world class athletics. All he got from the Somali side was genetics, there are loads of Somalis with the same natural ability as mo farah, why don’t you ask the Somali gov to turn them into world class athletes, you don’t because you want to claim other peoples work.
Just look at the inept Somali Olympic Committee, during the opening ceremony while other countries wore traditional clothes from their country or dressed smartly, Somalia comes out in ugly oversized tracksuits simply because they don’t care. Somalia is the only big country (by big I’m referring to population size) that I know of that doesn’t have Olympic trials. Somalia preselects the athletes that represents them and they always come from xamar. Somalia always enters its athletes into running (each country automatically gets two wildcard entries at the Olympics) yet they always from xamar, anyone that knows anything about running knows that high altitude training is required for runners because you developed more red blood cells for breathing. Xamar is coastal city it will never produce high class runners yet the athletes that rep Somalia always come from xamar and not the mountainous areas.
Since Abdi Bile, Somali athletes always come in last with some of the worst recorded times for their events. Just look at zamzam from the last Olympics, it took her 1.5 minute to run 400m, my sister can run faster than and she’s not even an athlete. The excuse that she was fasting is BS because her race was at 9am, the reason she did so bad is because she is not an athlete and before anyone says we can’t send good athletes because of war, look at Iraq in 2007 a very deadly year in Iraq yet they still won the asian football championship because they took the best athletes they could find despite of war, Somalia can’t even make it to next stage of qualifying for the African cup of nations.