Juana Arrendel, the Dominican world class high jumper, will be banned from competitions for six months. The Dominican Federation of Track and Field said the penalty will be imposed for her testing positive in the Winnipeg, Canada drug test. She won the gold medal in her event, but later tested positive and lost the medal. Earlier in Venezuela she had set a mark that would also have won her the Pan Am gold in the Central American and Caribbean Games, where she did not test positive. Her trainer, Russian Natalia Korotaeva may also be penalized. What happened with Juana Arrendel has not yet been fully explained. Arrendel says she did not knowingly take the steroid. The International Federation of Track & Field had asked the Dominican track and field federation to choose the penalty.
