One Mo victory will seal his legacy

LONDON - He might have been battered and bruised, but Mo Farah took it all in his long, loping stride as he negotiated Wednesday's rain-soaked minefield of the 5,000m heats at the world championships to set up one final assault on track gold.

Even with three stitches in his spiked left leg and a badly bruised left knee, the legacy of his turbulent 10,000m triumph last Friday, Britain's endurance maestro easily qualified for Saturday's final.

Having finished runner-up in his heat in wretched conditions in a modest 13 min and 30.18sec, the 34-year-old now has one race to put the exclamation mark on his extraordinary track career before concentrating on marathon.