You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up....Dick Pound

NaptownChief · 08-15-2007, 04:16 PM

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WADA Chief Looks Into China Doping

BEIJING (AP) - Doping chief Dick Pound will return to China to repeat a message he delivered on a visit 10 months ago: do more tests and crack down on China-based suppliers of performance-enhancing drugs sold on the Internet. The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said he'll also call on China next month to "go the extra mile" to persuade the world that it isn't hiding top athletes from drug tests ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "If you come (to the Olympics) with 1,000 athletes that nobody has ever seen before and you win all the medals, it is not going to be a successful games—it's going to be a disaster," Pound said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. China is intent on staging grandiose games to showcase its rising political and economic power. Pound said his message would remind high-ranking officials that one positive drug test for a Chinese athlete could turn the Olympics into public-relations disaster for the communist government. "The central government, I think, is pretty committed to having an effective anti-doping program," Pound said. "They more than anyone understand the risk, reputational and otherwise." Pound is to meet in mid-September with top officials of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, including President Liu Qi, and Liu Peng, head of both the Chinese Olympic Committee and the national sports ministry. In an interview this week, Pound said he was unsure how much progress China had made. The Canadian IOC member promised his message again would "be very direct."

08-15-2007, 04:16 PM
NaptownChief Football Pimp Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Indianapolis,IN Casino cash: $9974900	You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up....Dick Pound http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...rticle=1&cat=0 WADA Chief Looks Into China Doping BEIJING (AP) - Doping chief Dick Pound will return to China to repeat a message he delivered on a visit 10 months ago: do more tests and crack down on China-based suppliers of performance-enhancing drugs sold on the Internet. The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said he'll also call on China next month to "go the extra mile" to persuade the world that it isn't hiding top athletes from drug tests ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "If you come (to the Olympics) with 1,000 athletes that nobody has ever seen before and you win all the medals, it is not going to be a successful games—it's going to be a disaster," Pound said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. China is intent on staging grandiose games to showcase its rising political and economic power. Pound said his message would remind high-ranking officials that one positive drug test for a Chinese athlete could turn the Olympics into public-relations disaster for the communist government. "The central government, I think, is pretty committed to having an effective anti-doping program," Pound said. "They more than anyone understand the risk, reputational and otherwise." Pound is to meet in mid-September with top officials of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, including President Liu Qi, and Liu Peng, head of both the Chinese Olympic Committee and the national sports ministry. In an interview this week, Pound said he was unsure how much progress China had made. The Canadian IOC member promised his message again would "be very direct."
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