Mark Block Ban Violation?

[26mi235]

Seeing them, in a public place both there at the same time is 'consorting'? In that sense, no, it would not be suspicious if someone with a misdemeanor were seen with someone else that they happen to have known for a number of years.

If my accountant was in business with Bernie Madoff, she wouldn't be my accountant much longer

If Bernie Madoff only did illegal things with his wife (rather than for 10,000 accounts) it would not have been a big deal. As far As I can tell, Blocks transgressions just involved his wife, so if Jeter is not having an affair or made with him, ...

[polevaultpower]

More from letsrun.com: http://www.letsrun.com/2012/block-0720.php

None of these things may have been a ban violation per se, but how is he financing all of these trips? No one drops that much money to attend _that_ many track meets unless they have a business interest in them.

[gh]

I don't believe there's anything that legally prevents Block from acting as a financial advisor (or any kind of advisor) to track athletes. As noted before, those who banned him have no standing in what he does as a business person.

I hasten to add that I'm not defending what' s apparently going on; just trying to paint the proper picture of how the world works (which, unfortunately, is all to often not how we think it should work).

[Mighty Favog]

Making a fuss about this is well-timed. Athletes associating with Block in an athletic role is not outside the WADA rules right now, but it could become so. Proposed changes to the WADA code would make the following a violation:

Association by an Athlete in a professional or sport-related capacity with any Athlete Support Personnel who is serving a period of Ineligibility or who has been found in a criminal or disciplinary proceeding to have been involved with doping where the Athlete knew or should have known of the Athlete Support Personnel’s disqualifying status.

See the bottom of page 10.
http://www.wada-ama.org/Documents/World ... ode-EN.pdf

[26mi235]

With WADA's (and, e.g., USADA) lack of due process, I am against going too far in this direction. They are already at the point where they can stop someone from competing just by saying 'we think that you did'. It is a power that has potential for abuse.

The number of police and judges convicted of nefarious doings is not large but it is not 'epsilon' either, and there are likely more not found than found.

[polevaultpower]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/oth ... r.18423265

The US Anti Doping Agency has launched an investigation into the activities of the American athletics manager, Mark Block, who is currently serving a ten year suspension for his involvement in doping.

[pakillo]

^^^ I don't give a damn. Zhanna Pintusevich forevah!!!