NAMES IN THE GAME

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Rich Young is hoping to repeat the major
role he played in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan -- arbitrating
legal matters, including accusations of drug use.

Young, a lawyer who specializes in doping, will be among 12 international
arbitrators who will hear cases stemming from the Summer Games in Sydney.

During the Nagano Winter Games, Young was on a similar panel that
reinstated the gold medal of Ross Rebagliati, a Canadian snowboarder who
tested positive for marijuana and was stripped of his victory by the
International Olympic Committee. The snowboarder said he inhaled secondhand
smoke from other people.

"Our decision turned out to be pretty simple, and it had nothing to do with
marijuana being good or bad, or whether you could test positive for it by
inhaling secondhand smoke," Young said. "IOC rules at the time said they
would punish for marijuana only if the international federation (of an
athlete's sport) treated it as a doping offense, as a prohibited substance."

At the time, marijuana was not a prohibited substance under snowboard
federation rules, so the arbitrators restored the medal.

Young has served on numerous anti-doping panels and task forces connected
to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the IOC and several international
federations governing various sports.