Farah lights it up in blazing adieu to home crowd

BIRMINGHAM, England - British athletics legend Mo Farah began Sunday by taking a lap of honor in a Bentley convertible and ended it by giving the crowd the victory they craved in his final race on home turf.

The 34-year-old, who the previous week fell just short of a third straight distance double in London, taking silver in the 5,000m at the world championships, cruised home in the 3,000m at the Birmingham Diamond League meet with a time of 7min, 38.64sec.

For a final time in Britain - he runs in Zurich on Wednesday before embarking on a road-running career - Farah knelt to the ground and kissed the track before adorning himself bare-chested with the Union Jack.