IOC EXECUTIVE RIPS U.S. DRUG CHIEF

A senior Olympic executive delivered a blunt message to the White House drug
adviser: Crack down on drugs in pro sports in the United States instead of
criticizing the International Olympic Committee.

"With the greatest of respect, your view is clearly wrong," IOC Vice
President Dick Pound said in a letter to Barry McCaffrey, director of the
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Pound said he was troubled by McCaffrey's attacks on the IOC's plans for an
anti-drug agency. McCaffrey said this week the project is unacceptable
because it lacks accountability and independence. He called the IOC
untrustworthy and "byzantine."