Tucson Weekly: Acapulco Gold? (February 19 - February 25, 1998)
Ross Rebagliati Should Have Been Weeded Out. By Tom Danehy FURTHER PROOF THE world is going to Hell in a handbasket: Last week, Canadian Ross Rebagliati won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in the snowboarding giant slalom event (I'm having real trouble calling it a sport). The next day the International Olympic Committee took the medal away when it was learned that Rebagliati had tested positive for marijuana. The day after that, they gave it back to him when he appealed and the IOC realized they lacked the legal standing to back up their punitive actions. Now he's being hailed as a hero...