• Malcolm Arnold hits out at decisions taken since
London Games• ‘This is the most worried I have been in all my years in the sport’British athletics is in its worst state for 60 years having largely squandered the golden legacy of London 2012, one of the sport’s most decorated coaches has warned.
Malcolm Arnold, a former head coach and the first performance director of
UK Athletics (UKA) who has guided multiple athletes to Olympic and world titles, said he was reluctantly speaking out because people needed to “wake up” to the scale of the problem.