A leading British athletics coach has been banned for three years for misconduct after admitting he had mocked para-athletes and used abusive language.
Fuzz Caan, who coached Robbie Grabarz to high jump silver at the London Olympics, accepted eight of 12 charges against him stemming from a UK Athletics investigation and had a three-year ban backdated from June 2021 until June next year.
Caan was initially suspended on the eve of the Tokyo Olympic Games where he was due to coach British athletes Morgan Lake and Emily Borthwick.
He accepted that he had mocked disabled people by doing an impression walking with a limp with his arm bent and making noises with his tongue out. He also called one para-athlete “limp-foot Christie”.
Other charges he accepted were calling a team doctor “a f***wit” and being abusive to his own athletes, including saying: “I have driven all this f*****g way to be here for this f*****g idiot”.
Caan has no right for appeal but claims he was not offered the required support while at UKA, which said it planned to “ensure positive cultures are in place within the organisation”.
