Dick Pound

...Committee to put on an event for female ski jumpers, the International Olympic Committee won't recognize the results or hand out medals, Dick Pound, Canada's IOC member said Thursday. Even worse, he said, it would likely wreck any future...

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...problem when they had watched all these Festina (cycling team) folks arrested and taken to jail," Pound, who headed WADA from its inception in 1999 until 2007, told Reuters in an interview. "They thought: 'Wow, if this can happen to cycling,...

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...by some of the sports monitored by WADA. "The athletes or their representatives could still attend the 'B' test, as they are able to now," Pound told Reuters during a WADA conference in Lausanne. "But this would speed things up and an...

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...a year's salary to charity. Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Richard Pound questioned whether the team owners and players' association were really interested in ridding the game of doping. "We certainly pushed for the...

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...levels. Pound, who was attending a WADA conference in the International Olympic Committee's home city of Lausanne on Wednesday, told Reuters he had received the summons but said he was unconcerned by the development. "I think if the...

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...Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) may introduce tougher penalties for hardcore abusers -- but leniency for others. Chairman Richard Pound told Reuters on Tuesday that WADA had been taking a hard look at its code and was planning some "fine tuning."

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Dick Pound, who had a long-running feud with Armstrong during his time as WADA chief, was not among those impressed by the 37-year-old's comeback and said the Texan was returning to the peloton with the same doping clouds hanging over him.

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...code stipulates a mandatory minimum two-year ban for anyone caught doping. "It's entirely fine tuning," Pound told Reuters in a telephone interview. "The basic guts of the code and the standards are all maintained. "Where there...

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...to leave any doubt," he said. As Dick Pound, former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, pointed out to Reuters on Wednesday, such a program does not resolve the issue of whether Armstrong cheated in the past. Nor does Pound believe that a...

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