Pound urges tough love from IOC in anti-doping hunt
- Published: 19 Nov 2012 at 03.47
- Online news: Sports
The former chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Sunday that revelations of pervasive doping in cycling is a vindication of anti-doping safeguards and 'immensely embarrassing' for the sport's governing body UCI.
The former chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Dick Pound, pictured in 2007, said Sunday that revelations of pervasive doping in cycling is a vindication of anti-doping safeguards and 'immensely embarrassing' for the sport's governing body UCI.
Dick Pound, who for years waged an intense battle against the International Cycling Union (UCI) and disgraced rider Lance Armstrong, lauded the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation (USADA) into the supply, use and distribution of performance enhancing substances in the Armstrong case.
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