Misbehaving coach banned

Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir has said she has put a “difficult chapter firmly behind” her after her former coach Andrew Young was banned for three years for “serious misconduct”.

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A UK Athletics disciplinary panel found that Young - who Scotland’s Muir stopped working with in 2023 - “ignored medical advice” and “used manipulative and coercive behaviour towards those he coached”.

One incident highlighted was when Young, “following a disagreement, drove at speed with an athlete in his car before abandoning them at the roadside, disregarding their safety and wellbeing”.

Other examples included “requiring an athlete to compete against the clear advice of a physiotherapist, threatening to exclude athletes from training or races if they did not comply with his demands, and emotionally undermining those who raised concerns about injuries”.