British sprinter Daryll Neita says she felt UK Athletics “blackmailed” athletes in eradicating funding from those that didn’t lower ties with Rana Reider.

Neita left the Florida coaching group to hitch Italian Marco Airale in Padua.

UK Athletics reiterated that athletes working with Reider couldn’t be supported “given confirmed complaints of sexual misconduct in opposition to him”.

Reider has indicated by way of his lawyer that he intends to defend himself in opposition to any allegations.

Laviai Nielsen and Adam Gemili have been faraway from UK Athletics’ World Class Programme in December after opting to remain in Florida with Reider, who’s beneath investigation by US Protected Sport.

Whereas Gemili continues to work with Reider’s group, Nielsen has since returned to Britain.

Neita, who mentioned her transfer was not “because of the federation” added: “I do not really agree with the way in which they dealt with the state of affairs, to be trustworthy.”

The Olympic 4x100m relay bronze medallist added: “For those who’re frightened concerning the safeguarding of athletes you should not be blackmailed with funding. I believe that is two utterly various things.

“It type of felt just like the federation simply needed to cowl their backs in a means, which I utterly perceive. I simply really feel it is like‚ ‘do you care if I keep? Do you really care?’”

Earlier than the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade this month, Neita advised BBC Sport that she “left as a result of I should be in an setting the place the vitality feels proper so I can deal with what I must do”.

Talking on the Championships, Neita mentioned: “I do not simply wish to be somebody who ran quick and obtained information. I wish to be somebody who’s remembered for standing for the proper issues in life.

“I do not wish to be round controversies that do not contain me. It is not simply what we do on the monitor, it is what we do off the monitor. It is who you might be as an individual and what you are prepared morally to simply accept.”