Sir Mo Farah’s hopes of Olympic glory have been shredded after he was beaten over 10,000 metres.

He was more than 20 seconds off the qualifying time needed to book a seat to Tokyo.

He later said he was suffering from an ankle injury.

Farah could only clock 27 minutes and 50.54 seconds over the distance.

He needs a time of 27:28 to stand a chance of being a wild card choice to run.

Sir Mo said:

“The last 10 days haven’t been great.

“This is the first bit of track I’ve done.

“It would have been easy not to show but it was important I came out.

“I am four-times Olympic champion but that doesn’t mean nothing.

“You’ve got to go out there each race and give yourself a chance.

“I dug in deep but with 15 laps to go, you know my face, I was hurting hard.”

It’s ten years since Farah was beaten over 10,000 metres.