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British Athletics chief defends selection of runner for Doha• Langford fined for misdemeanours and faces another complaintNeil Black, the British Athletics performance director, has defended the decision to select 800m runner Kyle Langford for the world championships in Doha this month despite the 23-year-old’s well-publicised misdemeanours this summer.
Langford, who finished fourth at the world championships in
London in 2017 as a teenager, was fined £1,000 and given a final warning in July after appearing to grab a 74-year-old race official by the throat. He is now the subject of a further complaint from the athlete James McCarthy, whom he is alleged to have called a “fucking pussy” after finishing eighth at the
UK trials in August.