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Ex-WADA head Dick Pound blasts organization for Nicklas Backstrom silver medal decision (Puck Daddy)

During an August ceremony in his hometown of Gavle, Sweden, Nicklas Backstrom received his silver medal six months after the 2014 Sochi Olympics. 

Backstrom did not participate in the gold medal game against Canada after he tested positive with an elevated level of pseudoephedrine, a banned substance by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Two months later, after appeals, the IOC Disciplinary Committee reversed their decision and announced Backstrom would get the medal.

That decision hasn’t sat well with Dick Pound, the former head of WADA from 1999 to 2007, who is upset that the organization allowed for this to happen.