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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/dick-pound-loses-bid-to-be-sports-top-judge/">Dick Pound Loses Bid to Be Sport’s Top Judge</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 5, 2008 at 07:00 AM by Michael J. Sedor</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">World peace announced. Complete loan forgiveness for all credit card holders. Michael Sedor (that’s me) named to Olympic team. What other news could bring an equivalent smile to this writer’s face? How about this one from the International Herald Tribune: “Mino Auletta elected president of Court of Arbitration for Sport, defeating Dick Pound”. Am I exaggerating, being a little hyperbolic? Perhaps, but any Dick Pound defeat is a victory for the sports world. During his tenure as president of the World Anti-Doping Administration, which ended last year, Pound threw drug accusations at any athlete who looked at him the wrong way...and perhaps even a few that smiled at him. He reigned with one self-righteous, intractable philosophy: the athlete is guilty before proven innocent. The result of his Draconian and arbitrary sentencing was, among other things, the…<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/dick-pound-loses-bid-to-be-sports-top-judge/">(<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/dick-pound-loses-bid-to-be-sports-top-judge/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/dick-pound-loses-bid-to-be-sports-top-judge/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/dick-pound-loses-bid-to-be-sports-top-judge/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/culture-history/">Culture/History</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/socio-political-issues/">Socio-Political-Issues</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/featured-writers/">Featured-Writers</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/michael-j-sedor/">Michael-J-Sedor</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/doping/">Doping</a><br /><br /> </P>