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Jessica Ennis-Hill's Coach Slams London 2017 Co-Chair Ed Warner

The coach who took Jessica Ennis-Hill to the Olympic heptathlon title said that he "feels insulted" by claims made by IAAF World Championships London 2017 co-Chair Ed Warner that athletics is in "great shape" in Britain, according to Rick Broadbent of the LONDON TIMES. On the eve of the championships, Toni Minichiello said that "Warner had neglected coaching" during his 10-year tenure as chair of UK Athletics. Warner stepped down this summer, saying that it was good to be leaving the sport in "such great shape." But Minichiello said, "His legacy is more about imports and foreign coaches. All this, 'We're so much better,' is just bluster and there's nothing behind the bluster. It's emperor's new clothes." Minichiello's "main concern is what he sees as the neglect of the coaching system." He said that British coaches were behind four individual medals at the 2009 World Championships, but Minichiello was the only one at the championships in '15. Minichiello added, "Ed Warner has done very little for the sport's depth and breadth and that is a very sad legacy. It's incredibly insulting that someone leaving the sport tells someone like me, who has been in it for 30 years, that it is in great shape. No it isn't. Not even close." His words "echo the warning by Malcolm Arnold," the coach behind 41 major medals, who said last month that UK Athletics was only concerned with the "show-business" end of the sport (LONDON TIMES, 8/3).

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