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Exclusive: At home with Olympic hero Mo Farah, his wife Tania and their children

Olympic champion Mo Farah has celebrated his victory by dedicating his each of his four gold medals to his children.

HELLO! magazine was invited to the athlete's home in Portland, Oregon, in the USA, to capture the first pictures of Mo, wife Tania and their four children with their medals – two from the recent Rio Games and two from London 2012.

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Mo opened up about winning four gold medals

"I could never have dreamed that I'd get four golds," says Mo, who has made history by becoming the first man in 40 years to win gold medals in the 10,000m and 5,000 races at consecutive Olympic Games, a feat that has seen him hailed Britain's greatest track and field athlete ever.

In an exclusive interview, the 33-year-old tells how he pledged his two medals from London 2012 to his twin daughters Aisha and Amani, who were born less than a fortnight after the Games ended. He decided to dedicate his medals from Rio to his eldest girl Rihanna, 11, and 10-month-old Hussein.

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"I won these medals for my children," he says.

Addressing widespread calls for him to be knighted, Mo says: "It would be amazing. It would be good if I could get the word ‘Sir' on my passport. It might get me through passport control quicker. There have got to be some perks."

Read the full interview in HELLO! out now.