Richard Pound

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Richard Pound (2010)

Richard William Duncan "Dick" Pound, CC , OQ (born March 22, 1942 in St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) , and former vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) . In addition, Pound was a swimmer of the Canadian swimming selection and was sixth in the 100m freestyle final at the 1960 Summer Olympics . Richard Pound was also a Chancellor at McGill University in Montreal from 1999 to 2009 .

Athletic career

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , Pound reached sixth place in the 100m freestyle final as a participant in the Canadian swimming selection and was fourth in the season. Two years later, Pound won the 100m freestyle final of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth and came second in the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m relay.

1964 missed Pound the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games in Tokyo and ended a little later his active career as a swimmer.

Act as a sports official

In 1968 he became an executive member of the Canadian Olympic Committee , a year later its general secretary, and from 1977 to 1982 he was president.

For the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Pound was the deputy head of mission of the Canadian delegation. He was director and executive member of the organizing committee for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and director of the Canadian bidder Committee for hosting the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

In 1978, Pound was elected a member of the IOC and has since been entrusted with the negotiation of television and advertising contracts. Pound held various positions within the IOC. From 1987 to 1991 and from 1996 to 2000 he was Vice President and from 1983 to 1991 and 1992 to 1996 a board member of the IOC. At the 1988 Seoul Games he served as a lawyer for Ben Johnson .

In 2001, Pound ran for the IOC presidency after Juan Antonio Samaranch's resignation . He lost it against Jacques Rogge , who won the election, and Kim Un-Yong , who because of involvement in the corruption scandal surrounding the 2002 Winter Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City from South Korea has been prosecuted.

As an opponent of doping in sport, Pound was elected the first President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999 and held this office until 2007.

He headed the independent commission that investigated the doping scandal in Russian athletics on behalf of WADA from December 2014 and presented its first partial report in November 2015, in which the exclusion of the Russian federation from international competitions was recommended.

Awards

Pound received an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne in 1988 . In 1992 he was named officer of the Order of Canada , the following year as officer of the Ordre national du Québec . In 1996 he was awarded the Canadian Olympic Gold Medal. In 1998 the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Holy Treasure of the 5th grade (star in gold and silver). In 2002 he was awarded the gold medal of the International Swimming Hall of Fame . In 2008 he received the Laureus Spirit of Sport Award for his work for WADA .

Publications

In addition to his activities as an IOC member, Pound is a trained lawyer and author of various books.

  • Rock Robertson Surgeon and Shepherd of Change. Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7735-3374-5 .
  • Unlucky to the End: The Story of Janise Marie Gamble. Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7735-3300-4 .
  • Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done about Them. Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 978-0-470-83733-7 .
  • Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games. Wiley & Sons, 2004, ISBN 978-0-470-83454-1 .
  • High Impact Quotations. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004, ISBN 978-1-55041-847-7 .
  • Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates. 3. Edition. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004, ISBN 978-1-55041-171-3 .
  • Five Rings Over Korea: The Secret Negotiations Behind the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Little Brown & Co (T), 1994, ISBN 978-0-316-71507-2 .
  • Chief Justice WR Jacket: By the Law of the Land. Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7735-1898-8 .
  • Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years. Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7735-2411-8 .
  • Stikeman Income Tax Act. 44th edition. Carswell Legal Pubns, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7798-1717-7 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard Pound  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Canadian Olympic Committee: Richard Pound. Canadian Olympic Committee, 2009, accessed November 6, 2009 . - Richard Pound biography
  • Richard Pound in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Nobody is interested in the fight against doping" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 21st September 2013
  2. ^ Richard W. Pound, Richard H. McLaren & Günter Younger: The Independent Commission # 1: Final Report. November 9, 2015 ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Athletics: Anti-Doping Agency recommends excluding Russia . In: Spiegel Online . November 9, 2015
  4. ^ Honorary Doctorates. In: ussa.edu. United States Sports Academy, archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Jean-Marie Thiébaud L'Ordre du Trésor sacré (Japon) , Ed .: L'Harmattan, December 2007 (French), November 6, 2009 - listing of 88 winners
  6. ↑ International Schwimming Hall of Fame, Richard Pound 2002, November 6, 2009 (English) ( Memento from July 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ All winners of the Laureus Awards 2008 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Pound, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pound, Richard William Duncan; Pound, Richard W .; Pound, dick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer, former swimmer, former President of WADA, IOC member
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catharines , Ontario, Canada