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The US Center for SafeSport is an independent organisation that handles all allegations of abuse within Olympic and Paralympic sports in the United States. It does not reveal details of investigations. Telegraph Sport has contacted it for comment.
Reider denied knowledge of the SafeSport investigation to the Guardian, while his lawyer Ryan Stephens said SafeSport “hasn’t issued a notice of allegations to Rana”. Telegraph Sport has also contacted Reider for comment.
Reider’s lawyer, Ryan Stevens, said the allegations against his client were “unvetted” and “unproven”.
“SafeSport hasn’t issued a notice of allegations to Rana,” he told the Guardian. “The suspicious timing and motives attached to these unproven attacks on Rana’s reputation need to be fully investigated and vetted, and they haven’t been.”
UK Athletics confirmed in August that it would look into Reider’s group after one of Gemili and Neita’s training partners was charged with three doping offences.
Nigerian Blessing Okagbare was forced to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics hours after winning her 100m heat following a positive test for human growth hormone. She later also tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO), and was charged for not cooperating with the investigation. Okagbare denies all charges.
Gemili and Neita are not accused of any wrongdoing.
It is understood they have both been informed that they will lose membership of UK Athletics’s World Class Programme, and associated funding, if they remain with Reider’s group. Instead, UK Athletics will work to find them alternative coaching.
Gemili, the first British man to run below 10 seconds for 100m and 20 seconds for 200m, has worked with Reider since 2017. He pulled up injured during his 200m heat at the Tokyo Olympics.
Neita made a huge breakthrough this year, becoming only the second British woman to break 11 seconds on her way to making the Olympic 100m final. Telegraph Sport has contacted Gemili and Neita for comment.
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