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IOC Member Criticizes Sports' Olympic Selection
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GB Staff on Friday, October 9, 2009  11:50am EDT
 
International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound has criticized the IOC
following the selection of rugby sevens and golf to the Olympic program in 2016.
The Telegraph reports Pound said that the 106 members of the IOC had not been
given the opportunity to vote on the five sports who had been excluded in August
by the IOC's executive board. He also said that members were not given a reason
why the two sports were selected.
Pound added, "the fact is we were not allowed to consider all seven sports.
That's a mistake - it's not fair to the other five sports, and because we do not
know why this was decided, it is not a transparent process.
"The session was asking for guidance, not a decision that would take it or leave
it", he said.