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...
asking baseball clean record
We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight.
athletes code locked olympic rules
The Olympic rules and the Wada code never contemplated having doped athletes locked up,
comply fifa opinion rules
This independent opinion confirms that FIFA anti-doping rules do not comply with the World Anti-Doping Code.
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.
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.
approach decision factors include sure
I'm pretty sure that the approach to drug use was ... one of the factors in the decision of the IOC not to include and then not to reconsider that decision.
analysis believe cannot disappear emerges found gradually laboratory reason samples therefore traces
I therefore have no reason to believe that the analysis of the samples was not regular. Yes, the laboratory found EPO traces in many samples. It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in them and then it emerges as if from nowhere.
avoid coming federal government hoping run telling
Clearly, they're hoping that by doing this, they can avoid the federal government coming in and telling them how to run their business,
involved lawyers looking takes ways
But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.
chance gives players testing training
By testing players only at training it gives them the chance to get away with drug use.
conduct type
conduct of this type will not be tolerated.
accusation appears awful documents number rumor seen taken
There's been an awful lot of rumor and accusation about him for a number of years, always of the he-said, she-said variety. This appears -- I haven't seen the documents myself -- to have some documentary connection. That's a lot more serious. It's got to be taken more seriously.
accepts appeal certain court decision greek strange
The Greek federation's decision is strange but not surprising. I am certain that the IAAF will appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. If the IAAF accepts the Greek federation's decision, then WADA will take it up with CAS.
accepts appeal certain court decision greek strange
The Greek federation's decision is strange but not surprising, ... I am certain that the IAAF will appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. If the IAAF accepts the Greek federation's decision, then WADA will take it up with CAS.