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Tributes pour in for retiring WADA Board member and Founding President Richard Pound On 31 December 2020, the World Anti-Doping Agency s (WADA s) Founding President and longstanding advocate for clean sport, Richard Pound, came to the end of his final term on WADA s Foundation Board (Board), having served the Agency with distinction in various capacities since its inception in 1999. The positive contribution made by Mr. Pound to the world of sport in general and anti-doping in particular cannot be overstated. A lawyer by profession, he was instrumental in the establishment of WADA nearly 22 years ago, serving for almost nine years as the Agency s first President. In that time, and against the odds, he oversaw the drafting and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) which, for the first time, managed to harmonize the rules across sports and nations of the world. In what was a stellar athletic and sports administration career, that remains perhaps one of his greatest achi

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