Italian Mino Auletta is a Milan-based attorney. (CAS)(ATR) Italian lawyer Mino Auletta is named president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, beating off the challenge from former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Richard Pound.
Pound, a senior IOC member from Canada, says he will remain on the CAS governing board.
Auletta won a majority of the 19 votes cast by the CAS council who met in Monaco Thursday.
He also defeated Swiss lawyer Robert Briner and Sweden's former International Swimming Federation honorary secretary Gunnar Werner.
Auletta becomes only the second head of CAS. He had been acting president following the death of Senegalese judge Keba M’baye last year. M’baye was the sport court's president since its formation in 1984.
He will fill the role until the end of M’baye's term in 2010. CAS will then elect a president for a full four-year term.
The UCI, cycling's governing body, welcomed the election result. President Pat McQuaid says he is looking forward to working with Auletta. The Court of Arbitration for Sport is headquartered in the Chateau de Bethusy in Lausanne. (CAS)
"We will fight doping as hard as we can, we just hope that we end up with less and less resorting to CAS in actual fact," he was quoted by AP.
McQuaid's comments likely hide his delight at Pound's defeat for the CAS presidency.
The UCI's image has been tarnished by doping problems in the past 18 months and federation chiefs have felt aggrieved at comments Pound made during his time at the helm of WADA.
Only last month, the UCI launched a lawsuit against Pound, accusing him of "continual injurious and biased comments".
"On many occasions Mr. Pound has publicly questioned the extent of the UCI's efforts in the fight against doping," a UCI statement read.
But WADA leapt to Canadian lawyer Richard Pound is the defendant in a Swiss court case brought by UCI. (ATR)his defense last week, saying in a statement that it would instruct legal counsel to represent WADA and its former president "to robustly defend and reject the unfounded allegations made by the UCI".
WADA also reacted to the attack on Pound by withdrawing its support for UCI's passport program.
But Pound's outspoken style in his eight years leading WADA, including run-ins with various sports organizations and athletes, may not have done him any favors in Thursday's election.
The CAS president is expected to be impartial in oversight of the nearly 300 arbitrators from 87 countries who rule on some 200 disputes every year.
With reporting from Mark Bisson.
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