Big surprise, Dick Pound is in the news again. Yet, while most outspoken doomsayers in the sports world are just egotistical nitwits, Dick Pound is just clever enough to get attention because:

1. He is the only Canadian to have travelled nearly all the way up the IOC totem poll (and then plummet downwards).
2. He is responsible in large part for selling the soul of the olympics to corporate sponsors and mass media.
3. He is the only man who manages to keep himself in the media spotlight by getting his panties in a knot over drug-testing in sports that are off the public’s radar…like cycling and professional hockey.
4. Using his name makes any headline read like the title of a gay porn movie. For example, alternative titles for this post:
   • Dick Pound Again
   • Love that Dick Pound
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   • It’s Dick Pound Time!
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