Pound takes last stab at cycling

World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound will step down from his post at the end of November, but took the opportunity of one of his final public appearances to take a parting shot at the UCI for this year's multiple doping positives which became public during the Tour de France.

"They let it get out of control," he said, according to Reuters. "Maybe they thought that the Tour de France was bigger than the sport. This year was a disaster and when television, written press and commercial backers start bailing out they must have known they were looking into the abyss."

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