girofan
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Fahey the Australian politician the new man at WADA.
Is this what sport needs another POLITICIAN?
Is this what sport needs another POLITICIAN?
Fahey New Broom at WADA
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Tim Bennet.
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I know what you mean, but the international administration of sport is highly 'politicised' in the way their dealings are conducted. So I guess a 'key skill' is the ability to 'wheel and deal'.
Obviously it would be better if the betterment of sport was their only guiding principle, but I think that's a bit optimistic.
Obviously it would be better if the betterment of sport was their only guiding principle, but I think that's a bit optimistic.
andy_wrx
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2007-11/19/content_6263528.htm
(China Daily ??? - first thing Google found, not the first place I'd look myself for unbiased reporting)
I think I''ll wait and see what Fahey's like then...
Dayvo
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Fahey was premier of New South Wales state in Australia from 1992-1995, and served as federal finance minister from 1996 until his retirement from politics in 2001 for health reasons.
So he'll be after a decent supplier, then!
andy_wrx said:
So he'll be after a decent supplier, then!
Keith Oates
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Time will tell, but surely anybody will be better than Pound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rustychisel
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He was a dick!!!!
Dayvo
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And someone who pounds their dick is a w@nker!
Tetedelacourse
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The job is as much about politics as it is about fighting the cheats, sadly. Would have been great to get someone in with experience in both but who in their right mind...
andy_wrx
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I really don't agree with this hatred for Pound.
Pound was/is anti-drugs, not anti-cycling.
He repeatedly stated that other sports have major problems, like athletics, swimming, gymnastics, etc
He has gone after drugs in cycling and said that UCI hadn't a clue and need to get their house in order - but does anyone disagree with that ?!?!?
Pound was/is anti-drugs, not anti-cycling.
He repeatedly stated that other sports have major problems, like athletics, swimming, gymnastics, etc
He has gone after drugs in cycling and said that UCI hadn't a clue and need to get their house in order - but does anyone disagree with that ?!?!?
Tim Bennet.
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Pound was a thorn in the side of cycling.
And a good thing too. It may be annoying when someone keeps shouting "you can't keep sweeping it under the carpet", but without him, cycling would still be living in cloud cuckoo land.
If all the people who objected to Pound had instead, spent as much energy cleaning up the sport it might not now be teetering on the edge of extinction.
He was equally harsh on other sports, but I don't think anywhere else did he meet the resistance to change from the sport's administration itself. For example, athletics may still have a long way to go, but everyone running athletics wants to catch the drug cheats.
You could never say, (and still can't) that everyone who runs cycling is united in their total opposition to drugs. Some are at best ambivalent. I think it was this apathy that got his goat and made it appear he was in conflict with cycling: He wasn't. However he was venomously opposed to the inertia that exists in the various cycling bodies and teams to really confront the issue.
And a good thing too. It may be annoying when someone keeps shouting "you can't keep sweeping it under the carpet", but without him, cycling would still be living in cloud cuckoo land.
If all the people who objected to Pound had instead, spent as much energy cleaning up the sport it might not now be teetering on the edge of extinction.
He was equally harsh on other sports, but I don't think anywhere else did he meet the resistance to change from the sport's administration itself. For example, athletics may still have a long way to go, but everyone running athletics wants to catch the drug cheats.
You could never say, (and still can't) that everyone who runs cycling is united in their total opposition to drugs. Some are at best ambivalent. I think it was this apathy that got his goat and made it appear he was in conflict with cycling: He wasn't. However he was venomously opposed to the inertia that exists in the various cycling bodies and teams to really confront the issue.
