Dick Pound
Dick Pound
Richard William Duncan "Dick" Pound, CC OQ QCis a Canadian lawyer and author, and a former competitive swimmer. He is a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agencybased in Montreal, and a former chancellor of McGill University. He served as vice-president of the International Olympic Committeefrom 1987 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2000, and was a one-time candidate for the presidency of that organization...
actions announce certain conduct contrary express hard movement olympic results sincere worked
Even before we announce the results of our inquiry, ... we'd like to express our sincere apologies for the actions of certain IOC members. Their conduct has been completely contrary to everything the Olympic movement has worked so hard to represent.
deterrent ended fact joint law operation sends strong
The application of the (Italian) law did have a deterrent effect. The fact that we ended up with a joint operation I think sends a very strong signal.
analytical argument draws heart order stake
This draws a stake through the heart of the once sacrosanct argument that in order to have a doping infraction you must come with an analytical positive.
conduct type
conduct of this type will not be tolerated.
chance gives players testing training
By testing players only at training it gives them the chance to get away with drug use.
anybody business care enforce players running thinks
They may say .... we are running our business the way we want to and we don't care about what anybody thinks about what our players do or how we may enforce or not enforce our policy.
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A lot of members were fed up with the attitude of Major League Baseball, ... That wasn't so of softball, but unfortunately, I think many members linked them together. With the baseball people, frankly, I think the members felt if it doesn't mean enough to you to want to come to the Games and if it doesn't mean enough to develop an honest doping policy, then don't come.
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There's not much of a middle ground, is there?
records
I think one is right to say some of these records are pretty suspect,
against decided
I thought about sanctioning myself and decided against it,
everybody knew testing
Everybody knew that there would be more testing. The federations did more pre-Games testing and all that had an effect.
involved lawyers looking takes ways
But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.
armstrong came french information newspaper report
We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from the sport newspaper L'Equipe.
became commitment decide explore further information issues prepared sit truth waiting wants whether
We're waiting to see whether they have a commitment to get at the truth and the whole truth before we decide to participate further in the investigation. If one of the issues that the UCI wants to explore is how some of this information became public, that's fine. But we're not prepared to sit by and participate in an investigation that focuses only on how the information became public.