Olympic 1500m silver medallist Laura Muir has waived her right to anonymity regarding a case involving a former coach who has been banned for three years for serious misconduct.

Andy Young, a former coach of Muir, has been banned from athletics for three years after being found guilty of serious misconduct.

UK Athletics (UKA) announced that a disciplinary panel had found Young - who was Muir's coach when she won Olympic 1500 metres silver in Tokyo in 2021 - guilty of nine charges out of 39 he had faced, seven of them serious.

The panel's written decision of October 2024 was appealed, with an appeal panel confirming the original panel's findings in full in August but varying the initial sanction from five years to three years, backdated to April 2023.

Muir was coached by Young for 12 ye

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