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CBC
20-07-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak notified of anti-doping rules violation
Swim star Penny Oleksiak of Toronto has been notified of an apparent anti-doping rule violation by the International Testing Agency. According to the ITA, Oleksiak committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. The three-time Olympian has been made aware of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of the matter. She has the right to provide her explanations for each of the three whereabouts failures. Given the case is underway, there will be no further comments from the ITA, World Aquatics or Oleksiak during the ongoing proceedings. That implies the third missed test came after Oleksiak qualified for the Canadian team at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Oleksiak announced two weeks ago she was withdrawing from the world championship team and accepting a voluntary provisional suspension. Any eventual sanction would be reduced by the amount of time she was suspended under the voluntary provisional suspension. In the post, Oleksiak asserted, "I am and always have been a clean athlete" and that the case "does not involve any banned substance; it's about whether I updated my information correctly." Swimming Canada echoed the sentiment and said, "We support her decision and believe she is a clean athlete who made an administrative mistake." A Whereabouts Case is an Anti-Doping rule violation that can affect athlete eligibility even if they have never taken a banned substance. The World Anti-Doping Code defines a Whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period. Athletes who are members of the "Registered Testing Pool" which is the highest tier of athlete testing, are required to report an accurate and up-to-date filing of their whereabouts at all times. This is so they can be drug tested at any time and any place with no advance notice.
National Post
20-07-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Canadian star swimmer Penny Oleksiak notified of anti-doping rules violation
TORONTO — Swim star Penny Oleksiak of Toronto has been notified of an apparent anti-doping rule violation by the International Testing Agency. Article content According to the ITA, Oleksiak committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. Article content She has been made aware of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of the matter. Article content She has the right to provide her explanations for each of the three whereabouts failures. Article content Given that the case is underway, there will be no further comments from the ITA, World Aquatics or Oleksiak during the ongoing proceedings. Article content That implies that the third missed test came after Oleksiak qualified for the Canadian team at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Article content In a now-deleted Instagram post, Oleksiak announced two weeks ago that she was withdrawing from the World Championship team and accepting a voluntary provisional suspension. Any eventual sanction would be reduced by the amount of time she was suspended under the voluntary provisional suspension. Article content In the post, Oleksiak asserted 'I am and always have been a clean athlete' and that the case 'does not involve any banned substance; it's about whether I updated my information correctly.' Article content Swimming Canada echoed the sentiment and said 'We support her decision and believe she is a clean athlete who made an administrative mistake.' Article content A Whereabouts Case is an Anti-Doping rule violation that can affect athlete eligibility even if they have never taken a banned substance. The World Anti-Doping Code defines a Whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period. Article content Article content Athletes who are members of the 'Registered Testing Pool' which is the highest tier of athlete testing, are required to report an accurate and up-to-date filing of their whereabouts at all times. This is so they can be drug tested at any time and any place with no advance notice. Article content
New York Times
17-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Senators Assail Antidoping Regulator for ‘Stonewalling and Intimidation'
Senators from both parties on Tuesday sharply criticized the global antidoping regulator responsible for ensuring clean competition at the Olympics, saying it had continued to cover up positive tests for banned substances by two dozen elite Chinese swimmers, including medal winners at the last two Summer Games. At a hearing before a subcommittee of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Democratic and Republican lawmakers also signaled their support for the decisions by the Biden and Trump administrations to withhold key funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, over its handling of the positive tests. The senators said they supported new legislation that would give the president even more authority to withhold American funding for the regulator. 'All that they have provided are threats, stonewalling and intimidation,' said Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee and the subcommittee's chair, adding that lawmakers would 'not be threatened or silenced for promoting fair play and advocating for clean sport.' Tuesday's hearing was the second one the Senate has held on how the positive tests were handled, after The New York Times disclosed their existence in April 2024. The Times reported that in early 2021, nearly two dozen elite Chinese swimmers tested positive for low levels of a banned prescription heart medication that makes it easier for athletes to recover. At the time, Chinese authorities blamed a contaminated hotel kitchen where the athletes ate, even though they were never able to explain how or why the prescription heart medication made its way into the kitchen. The World Anti-Doping Agency, which is supposed to serve as a backstop when countries fail to properly discipline their athletes, did not sanction the swimmers. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
