ATHLETICS IN MAJOR U-TURN

THE new regime at UK Athletics have pulled a U-turn by rehiring one of the key members of staff who departed under the previous CEO Joanna Coates. In a move that has been privately interpreted as an effort to correct a mistake, events director Cherry Alexander has been reappointed by the interim CEO Mark Munro and chair Ian Beattie only one year after she departed. Her exit last November, after 30 years at UKA, was held up as a blunder from Coates, who herself left the organisation in October. Coates had been moving UKA away from event hosting and the return of Alexander will signal their attempts under new leadership to get back to staging championships. Katie Brazier, who was brought in by Coates after Alexander left, will leave before Christmas.