De Grasse's coach Rana Reider facing investigation for sexual misconduct. MORE:
The U.S. Center for SafeSport has just begun investigating the 51-year-old Florida-based track coach, Reider's lawyer Ryan Stevens said in a statement to The Canadian Press.
De Grasse and his partner Nia Ali, the reigning women's world 100-metre hurdles champion from the U.S., left Phoenix to train with Reider in Jacksonville, Fla., in December of 2018. "We will follow whatever orders or direction we get from the Office of the Commissioner," Athletics Canada said in a statement.
UK Athletics, Britain's governing body for track and field, said in a statement to The Canadian Press that, based on information it received from SafeSport,"multiple complaints of sexual misconduct have been made against coach Rana Reider and that an investigation in the U.S. is imminent."