Mr. Foreman,
Even if one ignores the entire Nike aspect of it, there is something wrong here.
The fact of the matter is a very serious doper - a guy who doped a double world champion - is traveling to meets all around the globe despite having a 10 year ban. If you don't think that means he's almost certainly still involved in the sport, then I think you simply don't think logically. The tweets that have come out are priceless.
Regina Jacobs to her credit moved on and sell real estate.
Mark Block may be a decent human being but he needs to do similarly as he should not be working in the sport and needs to find a new job.
As for Nike, was I trying to imply a huge conspiracy that Nike is secretly funding a doping program with Block, Jeter , Jason Richardson, etc?
No I was not. When people have suggested stuff like that to me about shoe companies in the past, I have always shot it down and said "That would be idiotic from a liability standpoint."
I was rather implying that to certain people at Nike company the fact that this guy doped isn't a big deal. In their minds, tons of the sport used to do it. Lots of guys from the 1970s and 1980s did it and didn't have to pay a price so why should he?
This sentiment is prevelant all over the place in track and field. Go to any college and people will say about a top 10 list "Oh that one was from he spent the summer in Germany and came back huge." People know it. They know what former coaches used, etc.
To me, past doping and current doping are way different.
Do I believe that important people at NIke knew he was in that box and didn't say anything? Absolutely. This isn't some small fish. This is the husband of a former double world champ is was agent to a current world champ.
This isn't just some anonymous guy who is a friend of a Nike summer intern.
The sentiment we want to take on is the one of "Oh it's not that big of a deal." We don't want Nike and USATF tolerating doping at all.
It would be like allowing Bernie Maddoff to come watch somebody ring the NYSE bell.