OpEd - Taking a Pounding: A Stellar Clean Sport Careerist Who Said What People Thought 01/15/21
By Ben Nichols, former Senior Media Relations Manager for WADA
It was during my morning commute to Montreal’s Stock Exchange Tower on the second day of my WADA tenure in June 2013 when I first truly heard of Dick Pound’s name, that is if you ignore the reams of anti-doping-crash-course-reading I’d scanned in the months leading up to my new job heading Media Relations for the global regulator in what was a post Lance-Armstrong-mea-culpa-to-Oprah-Winfrey, pre-Russian-doping-scandal era.
Dick Pound at ATR interview during PyeongChang 2018. (ATR)