What happened to Ross Rebagliati's giant slalom gold medal at the 1998 Olympics?

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Catching air — snowboarding Snowboarder Torah Bright of Australia competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was initially stripped of his giant slalom gold medal after testing positive for marijuana.12

Rebagliati appealed the decision, claiming the positive test resulted from secondhand smoke exposure. The International Olympic Committee ultimately returned the medal because the International Ski Federation (FIS) rules at the time did not explicitly ban marijuana use for the event, and the IOC medical code only penalized the substance if a sports federation had enacted specific penalties for it.12