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Olympic
Snowboarder
Still
High
on
Nagano
Gold:
Rebagliati
gets
to
keep
his
medal
2/13/98
26 year-old Canadian Ross Rebagliati came in first in the slalom snowboard
competition at the Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan and was awarded the
gold medal. Until, that is, a post-race drug test came back positive for
marijuana. Despite Rebagliati's protestations that he must have inhaled
second-hand smoke at a going away party held for him in late January (he
admitted that he had smoked marijuana in the past, but not in some nine
months), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) immediately stripped
him of the medal.
But Rebagliati appealed his case on Wednesday (2/12) to the Court for
Arbitration of Sport, which re-instated the medal in a narrow ruling which
relied only on the fact that the IOC had no prior agreement in place with
the International Ski Federation regarding marijuana use. Although both
bodies list marijuana as a banned substance, the absence of a formal agreement,
and the fact that the Ski Federation never asked the IOC to test for it,
left the IOC with no authority to strip Rebagliati of his medal.
NOTE: For a discussion of some of the issues involved, please see
this week's editorial by DRCNet associate director Adam J. Smith, at bottom.
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Issue #29, 2/13/98
ONDCP 1999 Drug Strategy to be Released This Saturday: Another "ten year plan" but a lot more of the same | 69th Anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Canadian, American Officials Meet to Discuss Smuggling: But which way are the drugs flowing? | Judge Moves Dennis Peron's Trial Back to Oakland: But Peron says he'll not be convicted in any venue | Penn State Professor Continues Marijuana Civil Disobedience for Fourth Consecutive Week | Cooperation, Certification,and Corruption -- US, Mexico, and Drug War Relations | Olympic Snowboarder Still High on Nagano Gold: Rebagliati gets to keep his medal | Allegations of Corruption Leveled Against Australian Anti-Drug Police Unit | Editorial: Give us just one good reason why the Olympic Committee is testing athletes for marijuana
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