UPDATE: The BTA website reports that Mick English has been suspended as a member for 18 months with 12 months of that as a suspended sentence in recogniion of the work that he has done for the Association in the past. We have also updated the item below to correctly identify his as one of the founders of the TCE rather than the founder - he was also the President Elect of that organisation.

It's not often that the ex-Chairman of a sports association gets asked to attend a disciplinary tribunal but that's exactly what happened to Mick English last week. The past year has been rather turbulent for the man;

• he gets re-elected to be Chair of the BTA at the AGM in November 2000,
• one of the founders of the Triathlon Council for Europe, an ITU-sponsored alternative to the ETU which appeared in December 2000,
• resigned as Chair of the BTA in March this year after many of the GB Elite athletes protested against his involvement with the TCE,
• and then gets involved in a brawl with BTA staffer Dan Salcedo at the National Club Relays in August, apparently over an athlete moving from his coaching group to Dan's.

It was this final act that resulted in his being invited to attend an independent tribunal. The results of the tribunal would have been discussed at Saturday's Executive Board meeting and one presumes that their decision will have been communicated to him either over the weekend or very early this week. For once the Board is being extremely tight lipped about the situation so all we can suggest is that the BTA website is the logical place to look for any official announcements.