Pubdate: Thu, 10 May 2007
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2007 The Toronto Star
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PARALYMPIC SKIER BANNED AFTER POSITIVE TEST

BONN, Germany (AP-CP) -- Canadian Paralympic skier Kimberly Joines 
has been banned from competition for nine months after testing 
positive for marijuana.

The Edmonton native tested positive at a World Cup event in Aspen, 
Colo., in January.

Joines, 26, had illegal levels of THC, the active ingredient in 
marijuana, the International Paralympic Committee said Thursday.

She was given a nine-month ban because it was her first doping offence.

Joines, who broke her back in a snowboarding accident in 2000, won a 
bronze medal in the sit-ski super-G at the 2006 Turin Paralympics.
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