Steve Hooker in the middle of the crisis.ATHLETICS Australia has been plunged into an “unprecedented crisis” with head coach Eric Hollingsworth set to be sacked after escalating his feud with gold medal star Sally Pearson at the Commonwealth Games.
Hollingsworth took the extraordinary step of releasing a statement independent of his employers Athletics Australia in which he criticised Pearson as a “bad example” to the Australian team for arriving late to a team camp prior to the Games. If Eric Hollingsworth is still an employee of Athletics Australia or a member of the Australian Commonwealth Games team by the end of the day then I think the ramifications will continue.”
Former team captain and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker said it was clear Hollingsworth knew his time as head coach was over and wanted to go down swinging.
“It looks like the writing is on the wall. You wouldn’t be doing this if you thought you’d be working alongside Sally for the next two years going into Rio,” Hooker told Network Ten. more
