Athletics news - Britain's performance director Neil Black amid Alberto Salazar criticism

ByReuters

Updated 08/10/2019 at 16:54 GMT

Neil Black is to stand down as performance director of British Athletics at the end of the month.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - SEPTEMBER 22: Neil Black Performance Director of the Great Britain & Northern Ireland Athletics team looks on during the British Athletics Holding Camp on September 22, 2019 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Matt Lewi

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Black had been reportedly been considering his position after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) handed down a four-year ban to American Alberto Salazar, the former coach of Britain's Olympic champion distance runner Mo Farah.

While there is no indication of any wrongdoing on Black's part, he has been a supporter of Salazar, who was a British Athletics consultant until 2017 and who Black once described as a "genius".

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"Neil will commence a detailed handover with performance staff until his departure and will fulfil his role supporting Mo Farah at this weekend's Chicago marathon," a statement from British Athletics said.

Britain won five medals at this month's world athletics championships - its worst total since Helsinki 2005.

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