BONN, Germany — 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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