Pound of prevention WADA chairman is not afraid to speak up

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 29, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

MONTREAL - Dick Pound rises gingerly from the chair in his law office on boulevard Rene-Levesque and shakes hands with a mid- afternoon visitor.

"It's my back, from the flight back from Beijing," he says, wincing. "When I got on, I was 6-2. When I got off, I was 5-4."

After all the globetrotting he's done over the last four decades, it's a wonder Pound hasn't been reduced to HO-scale by now. His Olympic duties have taken him to all six continents, from Seoul to Sydney to Montevideo to Dakar to Prague to Los Angeles. These days, though, he usually can be found in the city where he wears most of ...

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