Farah set for final double blast

British athletics legend Mo Farah will hope he brings the curtain down on his track career with a third successive double world gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in London in August.The 34-year-old, who was named in both events in the British team selection unveiled on Tuesday, will compete on the track where he so memorably won double Olympic gold in 2012 when it was then the Olympic Stadium.The host nation will be hoping a passionate home crowd will enable a relatively inexperienced team to at least match their 2015 world championship haul of seven medals.Farah — who began his world gold medal haul with gold in the 5,000 in 2011 and silver in the 10,000 — is the standout name in the British team with fellow 2012 Olympic champion Greg Rutherford the other proven champion in the squad.Rutherford, who is also the defending world champion, will hope to have fully recovered from the ankle injury that ruled him out of last Sunday’s Diamond League meeting at the same stadium.“This feels bigger for us than Rio,” said Neil Black, the performance director for British Athletics.“We’ve selected some incredibly talented athletes, and in many events there have been some close calls.“It’s now up to them to grasp this opportunity and produce performances that will make the whole nation proud.”Of the athleties hoping one day to aspire to such heights the most eye-catching is Scottish distance runner Laura Muir, who will compete in both the 1,500m and 5,000m.There was disappointment for sprinter Adam Gemili, who just missed out on a 200m Olympic medal last year, as the 23-year-old paid for his sixth place in the British trials and saw the last spot go to Zharnel Hughes.Gemili doesn’t miss out altogether as he will compete in the 4x100m relay team.Medical records leak was unacceptable, says CoeWorld athletics chief Sebastian Coe said yesterday the recent leakage of athletes’ personal medical information by hackers group Fancy Bears, which also appeared to link elite Kenyan athletes to doping, was unacceptable.Addressing a news conference in the Kenyan capital on the eve of the Under-18 world athletics championships, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president said the leakage should not be interpreted as proof of doping.“Everybody is entitled to private medical information and it is unacceptable that this should find its way to public domain,” Coe told reporters.He also said one reading of an athlete’s biological passport did not constitute wrongdoing or an infringement.“It might have been taken out of context and very misleading,” Coe said.Among Kenyans whose personal medical records were leaked by the global hackers are three-times world 1,500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop and javelin world champion and Olympic silver medallist Julius Yego.British distance runner Mo Farah, a four-times Olympic gold medallist, was also a victim of the hack.Coe denied that athletics is losing its popularity, saying that tickets for next month’s world championships in London had sold out quickly.“But we must do everything we can to remain relevant and salient in the lives of young people,” he said.“We have upgraded technology and adopted creative ways of telling our narrative to improve presentation of our sport.”