I really can't believe this is such a big deal.
It goes to show the attitude towards drugs in the USA to the rest of the world. This happened to a Canadian Athlete at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. Ross Rebagliatti won the Snowboarding Super X, and like a day after he won the gold, the word came out that they found weed in his system (a snowboarder who lives in Whistler with weed in his system? Shocking. Pot is a part of a balanced breakfast in Whistler)
All this talk of stripping him of his medal and all that, even though weed was not on the IOC's banned substance list, and really, if anyone thought pot was going to make Rebagliatti go FASTER...
Anywho, he got to keep his medal. But I find it funny...Michael Phelps gets caught smoking pot well after the Olympics, gets banned for 3 months.
Ross Rebagliatti gets caught DURING the Olympics, and Roots made him a spokesperson.