Richard Pound

Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency

Partner in the Canadian Law Firm, Stikeman Elliott

Richard has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for his relentless efforts to rid sports of performance-enhancing drugs. Pound was an Olympic finalist at the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960, is a 30-year member of the International Olympic Committee, and is a former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. He is currently the chancellor of McGill University in Montreal.

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We Should Accept Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Competitive Sports

With Radley Balko, Norman Fost, George Michael, Dale Murphy, Richard Pound, Julian Savulescu
January 15, 2008

As performance-enhancing drugs become more prevalent in competitive sports, opponents are crying foul. They argue that athletes gain an unnatural, and unfair, advantage over their competitors by using drugs, and that widespread use is likely to pressure all players into taking them just to stay in the game. But as society is increasingly invested in personal enhancers and sports become more technologically advanced, is drugging in sports all that bad?

We Should Accept Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Competitive Sports

With Radley Balko, Norman Fost, George Michael, Dale Murphy, Richard Pound, Julian Savulescu
January 15, 2008

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