UK Athletics fined over Emirati Paralympian’s ‘avoidable’ death
LONDON: UK Athletics has been fined £350,000 ($472,000) over the “wholly avoidable” death of a Paralympian who was killed when equipment fell on him at a training center in London in 2017. Abdullah Hayayei, 36, was killed while preparing for the World Para Athletics Championships, which took place in July of that year. A 5-foot-high (152-centimeter) metal cage toppled over because it was put up incorrectly and without its base plate, in an “accident waiting to happen,” the London court heard. UK Athletics Ltd.
