Canadian athlete Ross Rebagliati's instant celebrity came from his having won the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in giant slalom snowboarding, at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano.
The young boarder almost lost his medal as soon as he won it when tests showed he had marijuana in his system. In the end, however,the Court of Arbitration ruled that he could not be stripped of his medal since pot is not considered a performance-enhancing drug.
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