Former WADA chief Pound misses out on CAS presidency

Former anti-doping chief Dick Pound failed to secure sport's highest judicial position yesterday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) elected Italian lawyer Mino Auletta as its new president. Auletta, who has served as acting president since...

Former anti-doping chief Dick Pound failed to secure sport's highest judicial position yesterday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) elected Italian lawyer Mino Auletta as its new president.

Auletta, who has served as acting president since the death of the court's original president Keba Mbaye in January 2007, will now remain in the office until the end of the current four-year term at the end of 2010.

CAS secretary general Matthieu Reeb told Reuters that Auletta had been elected in a straight majority vote among the 19 members of the court's governing body meeting in Monte Carlo.

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