I'm no lawyer, but given the "right to work" laws prevalent in the civilized
European nations (the kind of statutes that caused the downfall of the
IAAF's original 4-year bans, if I'm not mistaken), depriving the world's top
sprinters of the chance to compete for the huge prize money involved when
This bunch doesn't care about the law though gh. Why would they when
bad, tasteless jokes would suffice instead? We are only talking about
people's lives and livelihood here. Here is a little more on the meet
situation from Phil Hersh.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/5069699.htm
ghi
An athlete may have a right to work (compete in the meet),
assuming they meet minimum standards which are probably ill-defined
(but assuming M&M would pass such a test regardless of the
standard),
BUT... they don't necessarily have a right to an appearance fee.
Would M&M bother to show up, if the
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> Would M&M bother to show up, if the there is no
> $$ guarantee and prize money is the only carrot?
Don't you think public interest will actually be *greater* after this
controversy? If anything, the appearance fees should be higher. I doubt
it will have a negative
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:46:42 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
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>> Would M&M bother to show up, if the there is no
>> $$ guarantee and prize money is the only carrot?
>
>Don't you think public interest will actually be *greater* after this
>controversy? If anything, the appeara
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> >Don't you think public interest will actually be *greater* after this
> >controversy? If anything, the appearance fees should be higher. I
> >doubt it will have a negative impact on sponsors.
>
> Then why do news reports say that Nike has been
> trying to encourag
>> >doubt it will have a negative impact on sponsors.
>>
>> Then why do news reports say that Nike has been
>> trying to encourage Jones to disassociate herself from Francis?
>
>Dunno, I haven't seen those reports.
>
>Dan
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/5069699.htm
Phil Hersh is a
Who sponsored Sotomayor? Here's an actual criminal that should have gone to
jail. Let's get him back on the playing field though.
Regards,
Martin
"It's the hypocrisy of the IAAF that's so galling. This is an organization
that makes a pretense of policing drugs. They're not hard to find. They seem
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This bunch doesn't care about t
mp; pillage of our air and water. (short
list)
gh
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) complicit (or any combination of).
malmo
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It may be my fondest love, but
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> It may be my fondes
tone and
People, right?
malmo
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Make it one season and I would agree. You can't have people missing say
September (after the big meets), October, November, December, January,
February and then returning. That is unless you tie their legs together
when banned and prevent them from training!
But if someone is caught in May in t
Going back a few posts...
"Representatives of Nike, with whom Jones has a multimillion-dollar
contract, have tried to persuade her to sever the relationship with
Francis, sources said."
No disrespect intended to Phil, but I expect a somewhat more concrete
reference than that.
More importantly, t
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