Immortal man Mo delivers his dream: Farah judges his run to perfection as he grabs his place in history with a golden double.

On a night touched by magic, in a stadium shuddering with noise, Mo Farah joined the ranks of the immortals. With a stunning exhibition of pace, judgment and implacable courage, he overcame the world’s finest middle-distance runners to deliver his Olympic dream.

One week ago, he gave his proudly adopted country the 10,000metres gold medal. On Saturday night, he secured his place in the pantheon by winning the 5,000m crown. Few have ever exerted that kind of domination over the greatest athletes on the planet. No Briton has ever gone close. But the man born in Somalia and raised in west London has set his own standards and written his own script in these astonishing Olympics.

He is 29 years old, at the peak of his powers and won his race with an assurance which reeked of maturity. He covered all the breaks, resisted extravagant changes of pace, matched his talent against the machinations of the gifted Kenyans and Ethiopians and kicked for home with the ferocious tenacity which has typified his career

London 2012 Olympics News: Mariya Savinova takes gold in women’s 800m

It was during the 2009 World Championships in Berlin that questions were first raised over her gender and, after she won the world title, Semenya, aged just 18, was subjected to tests before being declared female. Ironically, Savinova was one of the athletes who took exception to Semenya.

The Russian’s reaction to losing the final to the South African made global news. ‘Just look at her,’ is what she was reported to have said.

The Russian therefore became Olympic champion in a time of 1:56:19, adding to her world outdoors, world indoors, 2010 European outdoors and European indoors titles. Semenya’s silver medal time was 1:57:23 with Russia’s Ekaterina Poistogova in third in a time of 1:57:53.

Kenya’s defending Olympic champion, Pauline Jelimo, just missed out in fourth place, but all the talk last night was not about the beaten champion, nor the new champion, but the girl accused of being a boy who just might have felt second place was best for her.

London 2012 Olympics News: Mexico 2  vs Brazil 1 Looks like samba not works with Mexicans

Brazil’s Olympic curse struck again as Mexico secured arguably the greatest triumph in their history by winning London 2012 gold at Wembley.

Oribe Peralta wrote his name into Mexican folklore with a deadly double against the five-time world champions, who many believed were destined finally to end their agonising wait for Olympic glory.

But despite Hulk pulling a goal back in stoppage-time and Chelsea new boy Oscar missing a last-gasp sitter, Brazil were a shadow of the attacking force that had smashed in 15 goals en route to the final and displayed the defensive frailty that has long dogged them.

In sharp contrast, Mexico completed their transformation from one of the most notorious also-rans in world football to a side capable of delivering on the biggest stage.

And they could not have picked a better time than in front of 86,162 at the home of football in what was their first truly global major final.

The game promised to be a goal-fest, with Brazil having scored three times in all five of their matches and their opponents netting seven in their last two.

But few would have predicted the fastest goal ever in a FIFA tournament final – also thought to be the quickest in Olympic history – after just 28 seconds.

Manchester United right-back Rafael’s hospital pass was intercepted by Javier Aquino and the ball broke for Peralta to race goal-ward unchallenged and fire home.

It was not the first time Brazil had been behind at London 2012 and they might have levelled in the 13th minute when Thiago Silva headed Neymar’s free-kick over.

Oscar also should have done better than find Jose Corona when he was allowed to turn and shoot eight yards out.

Brazil’s sloppiness continued as they found it hard to penetrate a fiercely committed opposition and made poor decisions when they did.

Thiago Silva failed to connect properly from a flick on with a corner but Brazil were showing little sign of a remarkable comeback and even began arguing amongst themselves, with Rafael and Juan Jesus involved in a furious exchange.

However, they should have staged an amazing comeback in stoppage-time, Hulk racing on to a long ball from Marcelo and rifling into the net before crossing for an unmarked Oscar to somehow nod wide from six yards.

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