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...
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reforms which will prevent this from happening again.
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This independent opinion confirms that FIFA anti-doping rules do not comply with the World Anti-Doping Code.
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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.
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I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,
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I was disappointed that more members thought Kim would have been better than I would.
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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.
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I think the IOC is trying to make this point, you may have had these laws when you got the games, but you promised to use our rules during the games, and that was a commitment of the Italian government, ... We're here now, it's almost 2006 and we want you to live up to your part of the deal.
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We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from the sport newspaper L'Equipe.
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We can now (impose punishment) under the world anti-doping code. I'm not sure what the UCI regulation at the time may have been.
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It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.
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Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.
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We want to make sure that we do the right thing because, if we are forced to confirm the declaration of noncompliance, this will have serious consequences for football and governments.