{"id":469502,"date":"2021-04-14T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=469502"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:51:36","slug":"dick-pound-weighs-in-on-the-continued-fight-against-doping-the-upcoming-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/dick-pound-weighs-in-on-the-continued-fight-against-doping-the-upcoming-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Kick Podcast: Dick Pound Weighs In On Continued Fight Against Doping & Upcoming Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Kick Podcast: Dick Pound Weighs In On Continued Fight Against Doping & Upcoming Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dick Pound<\/strong>, the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, sat down with the Social Kick Podcast with hosts\u00a0Luke<\/strong> Paddington<\/strong>, John Mullen <\/strong>and\u00a0Bryan Lundquist\u00a0<\/strong>about the improvements WADA has made in the fight against doping, as well as the top priorities for the organization. Pound also speculated the amount of Olympic gold medalists that have doped in the past and went untraced, saying the percentage was “in the double digits.”<\/p>\n

Pound, who is a committee member of the International Olympic Committee, has been one of the most influential members of the IOC for decades. He reminisced on the doping scandal surrounding Ben Johnson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 1988, who won the 100m gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in a new world record over\u00a0Carl Lewis<\/strong>, but was disqualified days later for failing a doping test. Pound said that moment changed the way he believed athletes, saying that after that he never assumed truth was being told.<\/p>\n

Dick Pound also weighed in on the IOC’s plan to vaccine athletes for the upcoming Olympic Games<\/a> while the COVID pandemic is still ongoing, and said that it has to be up to each country’s federation.<\/p>\n