Mo Farah and wife's love against odds - school crush, rejection & chance reunion

Along with the Mobot, there's one constant at Mo Farah's record-breaking races, and that's his wife Tania. At home, the supportive mother-of-four shoulders the bulk of the childcare, owing her husband to spend up to six months a year away training and perfecting his game. And when the I'm A Celebrity star hits the track, she's waiting at the finish line with their children Rhianna, Amani, Aisha and Hussein. Without Tania, Mo, 37, has no doubt that he wouldn't have achieved half of what he has. “It’s a good thing I have Tania. If I didn’t have the family and everything, I wouldn’t be where I am," he told Piers Morgan. The couple first met at school in Feltham, west London, when Tania was 11 and he was 12. He was friends with her brother and her first memory of him is as a boy with bleached-blonde hair. They became like 'brother and sister', living around the corner from each other in Hounslow and attending the same athletics club where Tania was a sprinter while Mo preferred lo ...