Hey Nike, drop Jones and Montgomery

Maybe Nike arranged the whole thing?

You think Nike wants to have the Olympic Champion an World Record Holder who represent their company and link them to the most notoriuous coach in track history? All of the Republicans jumped away from Trent Lott after his off hand comments that may be construed as racist. This was not because he couldn't do the job but because they feared losing votes by association with someone that some people find offensive. Francis may be able to do the job, but Nike may lose sales from those that associate negative things to the Seoul scandal. Every year Francis seems to make a quote that insinuates that you must take drugs to be the best. If Tim and Marion both win the World Campionship next summer while being coached by Francis, they can put Charlie Francis' quote on a poster with the two of them to sell Rebocks. And of course if they lose than they lose. No matter what, being coached by Charlie Francis when you are a high profile athlete is a no win situation.

God, Y´all act like they are the Antichrists? Does Lance Armstrong lose all of his sponsors? No, and he is one suspected human being. But he had cancer, he overcame it and wins for the U.S.A. now (no mistaking here, that was and is great), but he is always a drug suspect and always will be, but they don´t drop him either.

Marion and Tim did not test for anything, so just back off, and start bashing when they did, which won´t happen, hopefully.

just stop crying about it

what a great sport. You become real good only to work with controversial coach concerning drugs. You Americans are dumb. You do anything for worthless glory. You are too dumb to see that track and field glory is worthless. No one in american society care about track athlete.

Take Ah's advice and quit the sport. You have much better good life becoming scholar and getting real job.

Honey, why don´t You just go in a store and buy some brain?

Nike won't do a thing. Marion & Tim make up less than 1% of their PR and resulting sales. No one buys a shoe because they wear it. If anything happens, this will get Nike more PR and help their bottomline and keep the focus off of underpaid Asian kids in jail-like conditions.

Nike may or may not do a thing at this point but according to the front page of this website there is a chance of them being dropped from the Australian meets because of potential bad publicity. Stay tuned ...

Nick Bideau is one of the most unliked people around the sport in Aus. His breakup and legal troubles with Cathy Freeman are legend down under.

Chances are that montgomery and jones will be heroes if nickie gets any more vocal.

Of course the fact that he USED to be on nikes payroll and that Freeman is now married to a Nike exec in no way affects his rantings right???

laughable!

OK, supposing Marion and Tim don't use performance enhancing drugs, didn't they anticipate the overwhelming suspicion that would come their way by associating with Charlie Francis? HELLOOOO!?! Are they dumb as bricks, or what? How unique or precious could his knowledge alone be? The sport is crawling with coaches that are experts in the mechanics of speed. Although, "Ah" has a point in that, in the end, no one will care enough to impact their careers.