The coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals has been banned for three years, with a disciplinary panel finding him guilty of forcing athletes to compete against medical advice and of abandoning one on a roadside after driving so fast during an argument that the athlete asked to get out of the car.
In the latest scandal to rock British Olympic sport, Andy Young was found after a four-day hearing in September 2024 to have been “forceful to the point of exerting pressure so severe that it amounted to manipulation or bullying”.
A UK Athletics (UKA) disciplinary panel added that “this resulted in athletes feeling that they had no realistic option but to acquiesce to his wishes if they wished to remain within his training group”.
Muir won silver in the 1,500m at the Tokyo Olympics
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