UCI to **** Pound:
(same article as WBT)\
In relation to Mr Pound, I would like to remind him of the following. On April 12 of this year you, along with thee of your collaborators, spent a full day in our offices to view presentations on all UCI anti-doping efforts, after many misleading statements you had made on cycling and the UCI in recent years. As a result, you had to come back on virtually all of the statements and had to write an open letter to the Guardian newspaper in London retracting elements of an interview you gave them.
Again Mr Pound why is it that the practises in Spain can go on under the radar of WADA without detection? Why not have made included in the World Anti-Doping Code and in national legislations effective mechanisms of mutual assistance between sporting authorities and judicial authorities? It is well known from various court cases that some forms of doping can be detected with police methods only. I think you and Mr Lamour would be far better served trying to assist the sports authorities instead of taking cheap shots geared towards shaping your own popularity.
I also find it extremely interesting that these negative comments should come from two people who have recently been charged with breaking ethical rules and a serious breach of the WADA Code by an independent investigator, both of whom refused to cooperate with that investigator. Comments from such persons should be more considered, more supportive and not made for political gain.
Yours sincerely,
Pat McQuaid
UCI President
