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Research shows athletics champions are older

Mo Farah leads the 5,000m race in Moscow. [PHOTO: COURTESY]

By DAVID OWEN

Track and field world champions are getting older again, after a near decade-long spell at the start of the millennium when their average age was getting progressively younger.

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