FILE PHOTO: World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) former president, Dick Pound, who heads the commission into corruption and doping in athletics, attends a news conference in Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany, January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday told its longest-serving member, Dick Pound, he was free to leave the organisation after the Canadian labelled fellow members 'old farts' for not being tougher on Russia over doping.
The 75-year-old Pound, a 1960 Olympics swimming participant who joined the IOC in 1978 and is a two-time former vice president, has been a vocal critic in the media of the IOC's handling of the Russian doping scandal for two years.
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