Coach and occasion organiser to face disciplinary listening to after plenty of allegations made regarding his behaviour
UK Athletics has introduced that coach and occasion organiser Chris Barnes has been charged “with plenty of breaches of UKA’s Code of Conduct for Coaches”.
Barnes based the favored Podium 5k occasion collection in 2014 and it has featured plenty of record-breaking performances from high-profile athletes over time.
The UKA assertion, launched on Monday (April 14), learn: “The allegations concern inappropriate relationships with athletes, the sending of specific photographs to athletes and plenty of different behaviours which, if confirmed, individually and collectively quantity to abuses of the athlete/coach relationship.
“He’s additionally charged with bringing the game of athletics into disrepute and failing to behave with dignity, courtesy and good manners in direction of different members of the athletics household.
“The matter will now proceed to a disciplinary listening to earlier than the suitable UKA Panel.”
Barnes declined to remark.
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