Seems like an extreme overreaction from UKA. How are any of these truly serious concerns?
Disagreeing with a physio therapist? Who cares? It’s not a disagreement with a medical doctor. A physios opinion should always be taken with a grain of salt. They shouldn’t be giving medical advice at all quite frankly. Now if a doctor says don’t run, but the coach forces the athlete to run, well that’s a problem.
Providing a food advice without having some type of formal training? Give me a break. Coaches cannot tell an athlete to eat better unless they get some certificate from Devry University? This argument always infuriates me. As if we all can’t dispense good eating habit advice to friends, families or athletes. It’s not that hard. “Hey, quit eating McDonalds and try putting some healthy options on your plate.” Again, if an actual MD has some concerns regarding an athletes caloric or nutritional intake, and the coach tries to move an athlete in another direction for performance gains, yes that’s a problem. But that doesn’t sound like the case at all.
Young does seems like a jerk, especially for allegedly leaving an athlete on the road, but here’s a solution: If your coach is an a-hole, find a new coach. Good grief, especially at the pro level.
I swear, athletes need to get a grip and take some personal accountability for themselves. The softest generation of all time.
Young is a raging alcoholic and his behaviour was seriously damaging his athletes.
Know the facts before you post such crap.
Seems like a short, fat and probably g@y little POS. F’m.
We had one like him almost become vice president.
Look at the middle aged women who take the certification course and start calling themselves “Coach,” childless pathologically self-absorbed failures.
Liz Clor is the exception. 😉
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It's ironic that he may have been a coach with an attitude problem but Laura hasn't really been as good since they went their seperate ways.
Can't be sure that's the reason, but if it is, it's a pity.
Did she get worse? Or did other people get better. Since she left him she went from 3:54.5 to 3:53.3 in the 1500m, cut 3s off her mile PB, and got a slight PB in the 5000m. 4 of her top 8 fastest 1500m times across her whole career were with Steve Vernon. Just Hull, Welteji, and Bell arrived on the scene around the same time which skews the medal results.
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