Toronto/CMEDIA: Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak has reportedly been suspended for two years from competition for an anti-doping rule violation, The International Testing Agency (ITA) says.
The ITA said in a release issued Tuesday that Oleksiak accepted the suspension for committing three whereabouts failures between October 2024 and June 2025.
“The ITA reports that swimmer Penelope Oleksiak has agreed¹ to the consequences for her ADRV under Article 2.4 of the World Aquatics doping control rules (World Aquatics ADR).²…the athlete committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025…The athlete did not contest the ADRV and agreed with the consequences proposed by the ITA…The athlete’s period of ineligibility runs from 15 July 2025 until 14 July 2027…The decision may be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by any party with a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 13.2.3 of the World Aquatics ADR”. said the ITA news release.
The suspension ends July 14, 2027, before the next Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
The World Anti-Doping Code defines a whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period of which she was notified earlier this year.
The 25-year-old Penny Oleksiak from Toronto is Canada’s most decorated female Olympian.
She has been the winner of seven Olympic medals (one gold, two silver, four bronze) and nine world championship medals (two silver, seven bronze) over her career.
