British athletics prime bounce coach Fuzz Caan is slapped with a THREE-YEAR ban for misconduct after admitting to fat-shaming, the usage of abusive language and mocking disabled other people
- Athletics coach Fuzz Caan used to be to begin with suspended from training in June 2021
- He has been passed a three-year ban this is backdated to his preliminary suspensionÂ
- It comes after Caan admitted to various misconduct allegations
A best British athletics coach has been passed a three-year ban for misconduct after he admitted the usage of abusive language, fat-shaming and mocking disabled other people.
Fuzz Caan, who used to be as soon as an actor on Coronation Street, used to be to begin with suspended in June 2021 after UK Athletics won a letter of grievance ‘signed by means of a number of folks in the prime bounce group’.
It intended Caan, who guided Robbie Grabarz to a silver medal at London 2012, used to be not able to paintings with Team GB at the Olympics in Tokyo, the place he used to be meant to be training prime jumpers Morgan Lake and Emily Borthwick.
Following an investigation by means of UKA wherein witness statements had been got from a number of athletes, 12 fees of misconduct had been raised towards Caan.
Among them used to be a declare he ‘again and again swore and shouted’ at an athlete below his care ‘for a duration a number of mins’.Â
British athletics coach Fuzz Caan has been passed a three 12 months suspension after admitting to a number of allegations of misconduct
Caan has prior to now coached Commonwealth Games silver medalist Morgan Lake, however didn’t paintings together with her throughout the Tokyo Olympics as he used to be additionally suspended in June 2021
Caan may be mentioned to have described an athlete as a ‘f****** fool’, a para-athlete as ‘fats and sluggish’ and a health care provider as a ‘f***wit’.
Another allegation used to be that Caan ‘made a laugh of disabled other people by means of doing an influence the place he walked with a limp, held his arm bent and made noises while sticking his tongue out’.Â
He is claimed to have steadily referred to as an athlete ‘dangerous foot Gay’ and ‘limp foot Christie’.
Caan, who started paintings as advisor at the Saudi Olympic Training Centre closing 12 months, used to be because of seem at a UKA listening to this week.
But after he admitted various the allegations, the resolution used to be reached with out a listening to – and revealed on UKA’s website online – to droop Caan’s coach’s licence for three years, backdated to June 2021.