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Onus on Olympians to keep drug testers up to date under 'whereabouts' rules
Onus on Olympians to keep drug testers up to date under 'whereabouts' rules

Toronto Sun

timean hour ago

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Onus on Olympians to keep drug testers up to date under 'whereabouts' rules

Published Jul 22, 2025 • 4 minute read Canadian swim star Penny Oleksiak has been notified that she committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. Photo by Chris Young / The Canadian Press A chunk of an Olympic or Paralympic athlete's life is spent telling drug testers where they will be every day and every night. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Failure to provide that information can damage an athlete's eligibility to compete, even if they've never taken a banned substance. Penny Oleksiak won't be on Canada's swimming team at the world championship starting Saturday in Singapore after running afoul of 'whereabouts' requirements. From staying at a friend's house overnight in the off-season to training in remote mountains, athletes must be found for testing to avoid sanctions. The onus is on athletes to submit that information through the web-based Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) on a computer or on a mobile-phone app. Athletes must provide, on a quarterly basis, their addresses (home, hotel or otherwise) and every day must have an overnight accommodation entry. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Also required is contact info, training and competition schedules and locations, time and location of school, work or medical appointments, and a 60-minute window each day that they're available for testing. If a grocery run or spontaneous decision to go to a movie conflicts with the 60-minute window an athlete offers as available for testing, ADAMS must be updated beforehand to provide an alternative hour. But athletes can also be tested at any time and any place with no advance notice. Whereabouts information must be sufficiently detailed so they can be found for testing. Swimming Canada said Oleksiak made 'an administrative mistake' and failed to keep her whereabouts information up to date. Read More Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Whereabouts and ADAMS are constants in an elite athlete's life. 'It is part of our job,' said Canadian race walker and Olympic medallist Evan Dunfee. 'It is something that we sign up for.' He recalled a 2017 vacation in Iceland where he was travelling in a recreational vehicle. 'We didn't know where we were going to be stopping each night,' Dunfee recalled. 'We were just going to drive until we found somewhere nice and set up shop.' That required a consultation with the Canadian Centre For Ethics in Sport. 'I actually had to chat with CCES beforehand and say, 'Hey, how do I follow the rules in this situation?' They said, 'to the best of your ability, update it as best you can.' I think I ended up putting in my latitude and longitude,' Dunfee said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The World Anti-Doping Code (WADA) defines a whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period, which the International Testing Agency stated Oleksiak did between October 2024 and June. Oleksiak withdrew from the world championship and accepted a voluntary provisional suspension under World Aquatics' anti-doping rules. The 25-year-old from Toronto stated in a social media post that her violation 'does not involve any banned substance' and added, 'I am and always have been a clean athlete.' Under World Aquatics rules, if an athlete in the testing pool submits 'late, inaccurate or incomplete whereabouts that lead to (them) being unavailable for testing, (they) may receive a Filing Failure.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Canadian athletes receive training on how to navigate ADAMS and what information is required, said CCES Sport Integrity executive director Kevin Bean. 'What we do with each registered testing pool athlete is they're required to do an online e-learning course, and they have a specific module that outlines how they work through the process to submit the whereabouts information, what ADAMS is, where it's located, the type of information that you need to submit, what the deadlines are,' Bean said. 'They're required to take that course upon entry and then it's available to them every year thereafter if they remain in the registered testing pool, but it is no longer mandatory for them to take it in the years after.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The deadline for submitting whereabouts info for each quarter is the last day of the month preceding that quarter. Athletes receive email reminders a month before and 15 days out from that deadline, Bean said. There is flexibility to update ADAMS information after that quarterly deadline, Dunfee said. 'Doing that three months in advance doesn't mean you can't change it,' he said. 'We have a specific email address that we can send to, and a text message line that we send last-minute emergency changes to our whereabouts, too, if for whatever reason we can't access the app, if there's an issue with it.' Fluid schedules in different time zones can cause whereabouts mistakes, Dunfee said. 'I had a case one time in Australia, where because of just getting my days confused, I missed the filing deadline for that quarter,' he recalled. 'It sent a lot of things into chaos and it was some very panicked emails an hour after I was supposed to have done this, sorting it out. I managed to correct it and get it OK.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Dunfee says he spends about an hour a month inputting his information in ADAMS because he knows his schedule fairly well in advance. He acknowledged keeping whereabouts information current is hectic for his more nomadic teammates. 'I completely understand for some athletes, it's way more onerous than it is for me,' he said. 'We have athletes who are hoping to get into these races in Europe. 'They might be on a start list for a race in Norway and a race in Belgium on the same weekend, and they're just waiting to find out which one they get into. Certainly, there are cases that are much more complicated than mine.' Canada Celebrity Olympics Columnists Entertainment

Rangers recall former All-Star 3B Josh Jung from Triple-A
Rangers recall former All-Star 3B Josh Jung from Triple-A

Reuters

timea day ago

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Rangers recall former All-Star 3B Josh Jung from Triple-A

July 21 - Amid a slew of roster moves Monday, the Texas Rangers recalled third baseman Josh Jung, who was sent to Triple-A Round Rock earlier this month less than two years removed from being an All-Star selection. Jung was in an 8-for-58 slump (.138) when Texas optioned him July 2. At the time, Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said it was a "very tough" decisions that was ultimately best for both Jung and the organization. Jung, 27, responded by going 8-for-39 (.205) at Round Rock with two home runs, four RBIs and a .410 slugging percentage. In 75 total major league games this season, he is batting .237 with eight homers, 10 doubles and 35 RBIs. Jung established himself quickly in his first full major league season, earning the All-Star nod and finishing fourth in American League Rookie of the Year balloting in 2023. He hit 23 home runs, 25 doubles and 70 RBIs that season with a .266 batting average and a .467 slugging percentage. Prior to their series opener against the visiting Athletics, the Rangers also recalled utility player Michael Helman and right-handed pitcher Cole Winn from Triple-A. They optioned infielder Justin Foscue and outfielder Alejandro Osuna to Round Rock, and they placed right-hander Chris Martin on the 15-day injured list with a left calf strain. Helman, 29, appeared in five games for Texas earlier this season and went 0-for-4 at the plate. He broke into the big leagues last year in nine games for the Minnesota Twins. Winn, 25, went 0-1 with a 1.59 ERA in 13 games (17 innings) out of the bullpen earlier this year, striking out 11 but walking eight. Foscue, 26, got into just four games for Texas this year, going 1-for-9 with a double and two RBIs. Osuna, just 22 years old, made his MLB debut with the Rangers in May and batted .164 with one homer and five RBIs in 29 games. Martin, the 39-year-old reliever who's in the first year of his second stint with Texas, was reached for one run on three hits Sunday night and took the loss against the Detroit Tigers. He's 1-6 with two saves and a 2.36 ERA in 39 relief appearances this year. --Field Level Media

What will Carney's 15% cut mean for the public service?
What will Carney's 15% cut mean for the public service?

Toronto Sun

time4 days ago

  • Business
  • Toronto Sun

What will Carney's 15% cut mean for the public service?

The prime minister has pledged to cap and not cut the public service, but will such a plan be feasible with a 15 per cent cut? Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to cap not cut the federal public service. Photo by Chris Young / The Canadian Press Public servants' anxieties came true last week when Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to ministers asking them to find savings of 15 per cent from their departments over three years. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account There were a few federal organizations spared by the exercise, including the offices of the auditor general, parliamentary budget officer, and the Supreme Court of Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada Border Services Agency and the Department of National Defence were all given the more modest target of 2 per cent over the same time period. Those letters marked the beginning of Prime Minister Mark Carney's spending review, which is set to start in earnest in the next fiscal year with a 7.5 per cent reduction, an additional 2.5 per cut the year after and a 5 per cent cut in 2028-29. In the Liberal campaign platform from the recent federal election, Carney promised to cap, but not cut the public service. But observers say that pledge may be difficult to achieve with such a significant level of cuts, which they say could have a scope similar to those seen in 1990s under then-prime minister Jean Chrétien. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Those cuts slashed 20 per cent of the public service, with many government workers losing their jobs. Ministers have until the end of the summer to figure out where these cuts will come from. We might not know until the budget is released in the fall if the prime minister will be keeping his promise to cap rather than cut public service jobs. Here's what public servants need to know in the meantime. Will the cuts mean the size of the public service will shrink? The big question on many public servants' minds at the moment is what the 15 per cent cut will mean for their jobs. Economists say it's hard to predict how much of the savings will come from layoffs, but personnel salaries do make up a significant chunk of federal operational budgets, which Carney has pledged to balance. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In 2023-24, the federal government spent $65.3 billion on personnel, which included pensions, salary, overtime and bonuses, according to an analysis from the parliamentary budget officer. This was a 10 per cent increase on personnel spending over the previous year. Sahir Khan, co-founder and executive vice-president of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa, said that it is still too early to tell if the size of the public service's workforce will drop significantly. There were 357,965 workers in the federal public service in 2025, according to the most recent data released by the Treasury Board, down from 367,772 the year before. 'We'd really love to see the details of how, because the execution is often more complicated than the intention of these exercises,' Khan said, noting that the spending base in the operational budget that is cuttable is between $180-$200 billion. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Sahir Khan says the Liberal government is looking to find 'a pool of opportunities' on what can be cut. Photo by Handout Many departments and agencies could shrink, but DND will likely grow, as the prime minister has promised to reach a NATO pledge to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence by the end of this fiscal year. It might be hard for some public servants to transfer to DND, as the skills required could be different from the expertise government workers have in other departments and agencies. While Champagne asked ministers to come up with 15 per cent in savings, some question whether that will actually be realized. Jason Jacques, the PBO's director general of economic and fiscal analysis, said 'probably not' and that there are 'still a lot of questions' around how the government will approach cuts in an unstable geopolitical context. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Jacques added that gutting departments that could need more capacity later in a time of crisis could result in a scramble to 'race back and hire all the people, right?' Khan said he believes the Liberal government may be looking to find 'a pool of opportunities' on what can be cut. 'I think cabinet wants to figure out what's possible, they'll assess the political implications of cutting program spending in certain areas and the feasibility of increasing it,' he said. Can attrition prevent layoffs? In the Liberal campaign platform, Carney promised to find $28 billion in savings for reallocation. 'So it really shouldn't have been a surprise to think that have been telegraphed pretty clearly during the election,' Khan said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Still, Carney's rhetoric promised a side-stepping of cuts to the public service in favour of a so-called cap. During the election, Liberal campaign officials told the Ottawa Citizen that a cap for the public service would be done through attrition, and that more details would emerge in a spending review. Khan said he expects that there could be a 'greater reliance' on attrition than layoffs, due to the upfront costs of providing severance to laid off public servants. Jacques pointed to a surplus in the Public Service Pension Plan that could be leveraged 'if you get creative' to offer incentives for attrition. For example, Jacques pointed to the possibility of omitting pension penalties for early retirement for public servants. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. By using the pension surplus, Carney's government could avoid the fiscal hit on the government's bottom line. 'So they could decide that they wanted to offer some additional generosity on that front to make things easier on public servants transitioning to the next stage of their career,' he said. Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our homepage and sign up for our newsletters so we can keep you informed. Read More Toronto & GTA Tennis Celebrity Toronto & GTA World

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