Source: CBC-TV, The National Website: Note: Transcripts from the 11th, 12th and 17th of February are below. Title: Headlines. Host: PETER MANSBRIDGE Date: 980211 ANNOUNCER: From CBC News... PETER MANSBRIDGE: Tonight: waiting for a decision. UNIDENTIFIED: How are you doing Ross? MANSBRIDGE: Ross Rebagliati fights to keep Olympic gold. The frustration at home... UNIDENTIFIED: Canada loses its medal. This puts a dark light on snowboarding. MANSBRIDGE: How Whistler BC is reacting. The inside dope. UNIDENTIFIED: If you weren't warned about this and you go to a party and somebody's smoking, you could test positive. MANSBRIDGE: The straight facts about marijuana. HANA GARTNER: And on the Magazine: Board Games; it's the wild child of skiing. UNIDENTIFIED: Just going to cut down through these trees here. Try and keep up your speed. GARTNER: Thrills, chills and plenty of skills. And now, an Olympic scandal. ANNOUNCER: The National, with Hana Gartner and Peter Mansbridge. - ------- Date: 12 Feb 1998 Title: Final victory for Rebagliati. Guest: IAN HANOMANSING, CBC Reporter ROSS REBAGLIATI,Olympic Medalist LORI GLAZIER, Cdn. Snowboarder MARKFAWCETT, Canadian Snowboarder COLIN BLAKE, SnowboardingCouncil MICHELLE VERDIER, IOC CAROLE ANNE LETHEREN,Canadian Olympic Association PETER MANSBRIDGE: Good evening. It's been the kind of journey even a wild ride on an Olympic snowboard can't match: an emotional journey that's taken Ross Rebagliati up, down, and now up again. The Canadian snowboarder will hold on to his gold medal, and his run into the record books as the sport's first Olympic champion will stand. An appeals panel today overturned an IOC decision to penalize Rebagliati after testing positive for marijuana. With more on the ruling and the reaction, here's Ian Hanomansing in Nagano. IAN HANOMANSING: (Final Victory) Victory then disqualification, then victory again; it still seems a bit unreal to Ross Rebagliati. ROSS REBAGLIATI / OLYMPIC MEDALIST: I won the medal. It was the best moment of my life. I got the news that I tested positive, that was the worst moment of my life. It all happened in a short amount of time. It was an amazing feeling. I'll never really be able to tell exactly how it was, but it was quite a ride. UNIDENTIFIED: It's overturned. UNIDENTIFIED: Overturned! UNIDENTIFIED: Yes! HANOMANSING: As the news got out Thursday night in Nagano, there was jubilation in the Canadian camp. And nowhere has there been more support than from his snowboard teammates. (Cheering) LORI GLAZIER / CDN. SNOWBOARDER: He deserves the gold and that's how it's going to stand. And I think that's awesome for Ross, because he totally deserves it. MARK FAWCETT / CANADIAN SNOWBOARDER: It's incredible. It's been the biggest emotional roller coaster for all of us here and we're ecstatic. HANOMANSING: But there is also resentment. COLIN BLAKE / SNOWBOARDING COUNCIL: Ross has been treated like a cheater. He's not a cheater. There is no cheating going on; why they decided to pounce on him and use him as an example is beyond me. Maybe there are some forces at work that are not too stoked at having snowboarding in the Olympics, and it was a good way of blowing things up. HANOMANSING: The arbitration panel concluded the International Olympic Committee didn't have the authority to strip the medal because it hadn't reached an agreement with the federation which governs snowboarding to make marijuana a banned substance. Why wasn't all this sorted out before the Games? Not surprisingly, the International Olympic Committee had little comment. MICHELLE VERDIER / IOC: The IOC has taken note of the award rendered by court of arbitration for sport, and we'll be abiding by this decision. That's all we can say. CAROLE ANNE LETHEREN / CANADIAN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION: There's absolutely a requirement here for this to receive real clarification. It's very confusing for the athletes, there's a lot of mixed messages in it, and there's no question it does need clarification. HANOMANSING: Rebagliati has said he hasn't smoked marijuana in almost a year, but is often at parties where there is a lot of second-hand smoke. How will he deal with that in the future? REBAGLIATI: Unfortunately, I'm not going to change my friends for you. I don't know, I don't care what you think about that. I think my friends are real, and I'm going to stand behind them. I support them; I'll never deviate from that. I may have to wear a gas mask from now on, but whatever. HANOMANSING: Rebagliati's return home may be delayed again. He was planning to leave later today, but the men's hockey team has asked him to stay for their first game -- for good luck. Ian Hanomansing, CBC News, Nagano. - ----- Date: 980217 Title: Rebagliati's journey home. Guest: TERRY MILEWSKI, CBC Reporter ROSS REBAGLIATI,Olympic Gold Medalist (Clip, Last Night) JAY LENO, TalkShow Host PETER MANSBRIDGE: The last time snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was at a party in Whistler BC, he says he inhaled second-hand marijuana smoke. That was before Nagano; before he won, lost, then won back his Olympic gold medal. Well tonight Rebagliati returned to Whistler, and another party. Here's Terry Milewski on the journey home. TERRY MILEWSKI: So what if he joked about wearing a gas mask around his pot-smoking friends? There were thousands of friends, and no gas masks, when Ross Rebagliati returned in triumph to Whistler. ROSS REBAGLIATI / OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: You guys rule! (Cheers) MILEWSKI: If he plays his cards right, he could be rich as well as happy. Sponsors are said to be all the more interested in him after the worldwide publicity over that tiny trace of marijuana in his system. (Clip, Last Night) JAY LENO / TALK SHOW HOST: Well you've had quite a week! MILEWSKI: It won't hurt his recognition factor that he stopped in Hollywood on the way home and handled the media big-time with aplomb. (Clip, Last Night) REBAGLIATI: They told me it was marijuana. And I was like holy smokes, this isn't good! LENO: Holy smokes? REBAGLIATI: Yeah. (Applause) MILEWSKI: But long before Rebagliati got to hug his mother at Vancouver airport, he may have figured out there's no glittering future in being a poster boy for the pot lobby, so he's staying away from the politics of marijuana. REBAGLIATI: You know as far as the legal debate whether or not it should be legalized or not, I think that's up to the politicians and the lawmakers of Canada and I'm not gonna get involved. MILEWSKI: Yes, but would he smoke pot again? REBAGLIATI: No! MILEWSKI: It was 24 hours later that Rebagliati began his umpteenth news conference by confessing that eventually even a hero starts to sag. REBAGLIATI: I haven't slept at all actually in the last eight days. I'm drinking a lot of water because of the adrenaline. MILEWSKI: Even so, he's decided to sign up with IMG -- the big sports management agency, and he has no problem with questions about all the offers he's getting. MILEWSKI: What are your expectations, realistically, in terms of making money on this? REBAGLIATI: I don't see a problem. (Laughter) MILEWSKI: His star power is obviously appreciated by the town of Whistler, which depends utterly on tourism and feels that Rebagliati has put this resort on the map. Ross Rebagliati, of course, has already done a lot for Whistler in terms of free publicity. Just imagine what it's worth to have Jay Leno ask -- as he did last night -- whether Whistler is like Aspen, and to get the reply "yes, but better." You can't buy advertising like that. Terry Milewski, CBC News, Whistler, BC.