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Article: Running clean: Ben Johnson and the un-making of Canada.
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- Borderlines
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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In the wake of Ross Rebagliati's recent positive test for marijuana use at the Nagano Olympics, Canadian Olympic Association officials were bombarded with questions about drug use, role models and the possible appeal of the decision to strip Rebagliati of his gold medal. One of the more prominent questions was: "Is this incident comparable to Ben Johnson?" In other words, was Rebagliati's transgression in 1998 linked to Johnson's a decade earlier. The answer which came from various COA brass and from former Olympians such as Silken Laumann whom the media sought out was an emphatic: "No." The COA ruled out linking the two events; moreover, it lobbied to have the gold medal ...
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