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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Dick-Pound-as-a-young-Olympic-swimmer.png432669Celebrating the 2010 Olympic Games, especially British Columbia, provides an opportunity to look back on six decades of personal involvement in the Olympic movement and to reflect on some fascinating international relationships in a world that is changing faster and more profoundly than at any time in recorded history. Of course, as a small boy […]