I would like to voice my disappointment in the Backstrom case, we have an athlete who failed a test and is walking around with a silver medal around his neck, i think we fumbled the ball.

Dick Pound

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Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

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Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

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Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

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For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't l... by Dick Pound

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to sp... by Dick Pound

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

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You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

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I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

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It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse. by Dick Pound

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

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There is an interesting constitutional, jurisdictional issue there, it would bring up the larger question of who is really running track and field, is it the IAAF or is it the IOC?

They might well do that( ask for a re-test) but I think what they would really prefer to do would be to get hold of Radchenkov, people make it sound like he is in America somewhere. He's a fairly slippery character.

They( World Anti-Doping Agency) could certainly ask the IOC if they would do that( re-test samples) by and large with steroids, especially if World Anti-Doping Agency is World Anti-Doping Agency, they are pretty good about the clearance times. It is the not-so-gifted amateurs that sometimes get the clearance times wrong and end up testing positive.

The more the rot appears to spread, the harder it is for them to develop the kind of credibility they need on this.

We knew it would be a stretch for them but if they devoted themselves, heart and soul, to getting it done, it would be possible., yet here we are four months later and I think somehow they must have convinced themselves that it would go away... time is shrinking.

Kenya are at least getting to the point where the legislation( for the anti-doping lab) will be in place some time in the next 10 days, whether that will be applied or not, is another matter.

There seems to be some evidence that they’re just changing deckch... by Dick Pound

There seems to be some evidence that they’re just changing deckchairs on the Titanic.

My guess is Russia may not make it back for Rio. The IAAF and WADA are not going to risk their reputations by rolling over and playing dead.

They had an opportunity a long time ago to address issues of gove... by Dick Pound

They had an opportunity a long time ago to address issues of governance.

Coe and Bubka were there (as vice-presidents to Diack), it's easy enough if you want to get a governance review. They had a (19th-century) constitution in a 21st-century organization.