Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:22 p.m. / Updated Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:47 p.m.
Swimmer Penny Oleksiak (25) received a two-year ban for failing to report her location for doping tests three times during the season.
The athlete has her activity suspended until July 14, 2027. The Canadian ticked off her third offense this summer, before the World Championships.Penny Oleksiak is the most decorated swimmer in Canadian Olympic history, according to sport.aktuality.
Oleksiak has seven Olympic medals to his credit, and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he won gold in the 100m freestyle.
Penny Oleksiak, suspended for two years by WADA
“Penny will be missing from our national team. We hope that after her suspension expires, she will return to the competitive pools,” Canadian Swimming officials said in a statement.
“Athlete tracking is part of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) anti-doping testing program. Selected athletes must provide, 90 days in advance, a 60-minute daily window of availability to be tested, regardless of where they are in the world,” writes cbc.ca.
“If an athlete reports their whereabouts late, inaccurately or incompletely, resulting in the impossibility of testing, [acesta] may receive a penalty for failure to report”, notes World Aquatics.
If within 12 months there are 3 violations, then athletes can be suspended for 2 yearsas happened in the case of the Canadian.
Penny Oleksiak/ photo Imago Images
Oleksiak: “I am and have always been a clean athlete”
Oleksiak did not participate in the Swimming World Championships this summer precisely because of the problem related to his presence in the doping tests organized by WADA.
“The matter does not involve any banned substances. I am and have always been a clean athlete and I will not make any further comments at this time,” Oleksiak said in the summer.
We are committed to enforcing and upholding all anti-doping rules as outlined in the Canadian Anti-Doping Program and through World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency. While we accept Penny's explanation that these were involuntary errors and that she did not use banned substances, anti-doping regulations are in place to ensure a level playing field for all athletes.
– Suzanne Paulins, President of the Canadian Swimming Federation
