Ahead of running in his final competitive Great North Run earlier this month, Sir Mo Farah was honoured with a special ceremony which saw his footprints immortalised in concrete to go on display at South Shiels Interchange.<\/p>\n
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As well as being a four time Olympic champion, Sir Mo won the Great North Run six times and Nexus were honoured to arrange the ceremony to mark his achievements with a special ceremony taking place in Friday 8th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n Cathy Massarella, Interim Managing Director at Nexus, said: \u201cIt was a huge honour for us to welcome Sir Mo Farah on Metro today to set his footprints at our transport interchange in South Shields. It was a really fitting way to celebrate his amazing career, and to mark his final competitive race at this year\u2019s Great North Run.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cast of these footprints will stand the test of time, and will be there for many generations to come. I am sure our customers are just as excited as us to see this new permanent feature in our Metro concourse in South Shields town centre.\u00a0 It will serve as a permanent reminder of Sir Mo\u2019s glittering career, including the six times he has won the Great North Run. He\u2019s part of local folklore here in North East England, and a national hero, who has a special place in everyone\u2019s hearts for all that he\u2019s achieved in professional sport.\u201d<\/p>\n Sir Brendan Foster commented: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted Nexus have chosen to honour Mo and his special connection with the Great North Run in such a permanent way. South Shields will always be the place he took his last steps as a professional athlete and we hope his footprints continue to inspire local runners for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahead of running in his final competitive Great North Run earlier this month, Sir Mo Farah was honoured with a special ceremony which saw his footprints immortalised in concrete to go on display at South Shiels Interchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50983,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982\/revisions\/50983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}