Mo Farah has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games, which start today in Glasgow, Scotland, after failing to recover sufficiently from a recent illness.

"My body is telling me it's not ready to race yet," Farah said in a BBC report. "Training is getting better but I need another few weeks to get back to the level I was at in 2012 and 2013.”

Representing the UK, Farah won the 5000- and 10,000-meter races at the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2013 World Championships. In Glasgow, he was scheduled to run the 5000 on July 27 and the 10,000 on August 1. His participation in the Commonwealth Games was an on-again, off-again prospect throughout 2014. But after a recent hospitalization due to abdominal pains, he’d returned to training for the Games.

Farah has run only one track race, a winning 13:23 5000 on June 15, since placing eighth in 2:08:21 in his marathon debut in April's London Marathon. He said he still expects to compete in the European Championships beginning August 12 in Zurich.

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