April 4, 2008 – Dick Pound, a Montreal lawyer, former World Anti Doping Agency president, and member of the International Olympic Committee has lost his bid to become president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to Mino Auletta, an Italian lawyer, who received a majority of the votes at a meeting of the 19 members of the court’s governing body reports AP.

Auletta, the acting CAS president since the death of Senegalese judge Keba Mbaye last year, will continue until the end of Mbaye’s term in 2010, after which elections will be held for a president for a full four-year term. The CAS president oversees nearly 300 arbitrators who rule on about 200 disputes every year.

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