ROSS REBAGLIATI

Pro athletes make a sport of real estate - Globe and Mail - October 26, 2007

Pro athletes make a sport of real estate Competitive attitudes key to sports stars' real-estate success KERRY GOLD

From Friday's Globe and Mail

October 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM EDT

Ross Rebagliati may be known as the first snowboarder to win Olympic gold, but his real estate investments have put him at the top of his game.

Mr. Rebagliati made his first purchase at 20, when he bought a Whistler, B.C., home for $200,000, using racing prize money as a small down payment. He later sold the property for $385,000 and

Landis appeal throws spotlight on sports court  Reuters  

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LAUSANNE - Floyd Landis’s decision last week to appeal against the stripping of his 2006 Tour de France title means the American joins a long list of athletes whose fates have been determined by the powerful but discreet Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Housed in a set-back mansion in an unassuming residential suburb in the Swiss city of Lausanne, CAS rarely attracts notice from the outside world.

But within its thick walls - which once protected

Ferry workers pass joint, Hahn passes buck Fleet's boss should show some leadership instead of finger-pointing Michael Smyth, The ProvincePublished: Thursday, October 18, 2007 News that reefer madness was running rampant on B.C. Ferries' northern routes had the big shots ducking for cover faster than you can hum the first three notes of "Smoke On The Water."

B.C. Ferries president David Hahn was making weaker excuses than a teenager whose mom just found his stash, like this half-baked gem: "B.C. Ferries has had a zero-tolerance policy for all crew members since 2005."

Wow, two whole years? And

The Olympics' long, sordid history The Marion Jones scandal is only one of many dating as far back as 1912. October 14, 2007 Marion Jones, the U.S. Olympic track champion who last week was stripped of her medals after confessing to steroid use during the 2000 Olympiad, has cast a pall over her sport, disappointed a generation of children, let down her country and besmirched Olympic traditions of good sportsmanship and fair play that have endured since . . . well . . . er, since April, when six Austrian skiers received lifetime Olympic bans for their roles in a blood-doping scandal at the 2006 Turin Games. OK, but aside from that isolated

Click on the link below to watch Ross Rebagliat's Olympic run:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIPSLABM9E

Click on the links below to see video of Ross Rebagliati snowboarding on AstroRide at a snowboard park in Japan (October 2007):  

Ross Rebagliati riding his raceboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMyj-RUBxE  

Ross Rebagliati riding his freestyle board: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtK8GINMXrE  

Ross talking and then riding his freestyle board: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDIGxMsXhoM  

Ross filming himself riding his freestyle board on AstroRide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0xXldyXaqQ  

Ross riding his freestyleboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBxflI0NozM

 

 

Here is a link written about Ross in Japan this October 2007:

http://uprising.14.dtiblog.com/blog-entry-2.html