Dick Pound
He is known today as one of the world’s leading crusaders against doping in sports, one of the founders and the first president of the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency and that has cast Dick Pound into an important global role, not only in Olympic sports but branching out into North American professional sports as well.
But it is just the continuation of a lifetime in sports that began for Pound as one of the country’s best swimmers.
Before morphing into his current lofty position, the man named by Time magazine as one of the “100 most influential people in the world” in 2005 was four-time Canadian freestyle swim champion — 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962 — and an Olympian himself. He was sixth in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 Rome Games, at which he also placed fourth with the 4x100-metre Canadian relay team.