José Joaquín Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee said that Juana Arrendel will not be traveling to the Seville World Track & Field Games, as had been said earlier. Arrendel needs to await the sentence of the International Track & Field Federation. She faces a suspension of one to two years from international competition for testing positive in the doping test in Winnipeg Pan Am Games. What happened has not yet been explained, and Arrendel maintains her innocence. She jumped 1.93 meters in the high jump, sufficient for a gold medal. Earlier she had jumped 1.91 meters in the Central American & Caribbean Games, winning the gold medal, and testing negative on the doping test. The 1.91 mark would also have been sufficient to win the gold in Winnipeg.
