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The lobbying group Human Rights Watch has called on the International Olympic Committee to consider barring Saudi Arabia from the Games unless the country moves swiftly to get women onto its Olympic teams. The organization is trying to change both the cu
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The locally-made documentary "Ready to Fly" has a great story to tell, but doesn’t tell it as well as it could. That story is of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping team, which trains in Park City and is led by one of that city’s own, Lindsay Van — who is not o
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Inductee to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, speaks to the media at the hall in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. View Photo »
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It's very tough because it's a very seductive approach the people urging it on them are taking
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A decade has passed since Apolo Anton Ohno, Derek Parra and Sarah Hughes took their golden turns on the Salt Lake City Olympic ice; since U.S. men swept snowboard medals in a Utah halfpipe; since Vonetta Flowers rode a Park City bobsled run to history, b
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American figure skater Sarah Hughes won gold at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. American figure skater Sarah Hughes won gold at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Just hours before the symbolic rekindling of the Salt Lake Olympic cauldron,
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In those 10 years, the U.S. Olympic Committee has tried twice to bring another Olympics to U.S. soil. As Salt Lake City marks the 10th anniversary of its Games - the opening ceremony was on Feb. 8, 2002 - U.S. Olympic bid ambitions are on hold. The earli
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Inductees to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, left to right, Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, former British Columbia Lions kicker Lui Passaglia, Andrea Neil, a former assistant coach with the Canadian women's soccer... View Photo »
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The BOA has resorted to demagoguery and, while blaming everyone else for the effects of its own legal errors, has attempted to wrap itself in a cloak of righteousness, a self-declared David, bravely alone in the face of Goliath
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LONDON -- It's the burning question of the London Olympics. Who will - or should - light the cauldron for the 2012 Games? With six months to go until the opening ceremony, British bookmakers are taking floods of bets on the issue, while fans, athletes, m
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FILE - This is a Friday, July 19, 1996 file photo of Muhammad Ali, watched by U.S. swimmer Janet Evans, as lights the Olympic flame during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Atlanta. Who will or who should light the cauldron for the London
About Dick Pound
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Richard William Duncan Pound, OC, OQ (born March 22, 1942) is a Canadian lawyer and partner of the law firm Stikeman Elliott and the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) based in Montreal. He is a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was a one-time candidate for the presidency of that... Full Article
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Inductees to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, left to right, Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, former British Columbia Lions kicker Lui Passaglia, Andrea Neil, a former assistant coach with the Canadian women's soccer team and two-time W-League soccer...
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Newly elected World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Australian John Fahey gives a speech at the World conference on Doping in Sport in Madrid, 17 November 2007. Outgoing president Dick Pound left the door open for team sports such as football to change the new anti-doping Code 17...
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Canadian lawyer Dick Pound speaks during the World conference on Doping in Sport in Madrid, 17 November 2007. Pound left the door open for team sports such as football to change the new anti-doping Code 17 November. The new Code, which is due to...
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President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge speaks at the inaugural session of the World conference on Doping in Sport in Madrid, 15 November 2007. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound looks set to court controversy after accusing the Spanish...
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Fran Crippen of the U.S. poses with his gold medal after winning the men's 10-km open water race at the Pan American games at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in this July 14, 2007 file photograph. Limits on water temperature and improved safety standards should be adopted for open...
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Outgoing Olympic supremo Juan Antonia Samaranch, 81-year-old International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, said 03 July 2001, he wants to see the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing and have Belgium's Jacques Rogge replace him. Five cities are vying for the 2008 Games - Beijing, Toronto,...
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Inductees to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, left to right, Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, former British Columbia Lions kicker Lui Passaglia, Andrea Neil, a former assistant coach with the Canadian women's soccer team and two-time W-League soccer...
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