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25 November 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
As previously reported, the athlete committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025. On 15 July 2025, she accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending resolution of the matter. The athlete did not contest the ADRV and agreed with the consequences proposed by the ITA. Accordingly, the case was resolved through an acceptance of consequences.
The athlete’s period of ineligibility runs from 15 July 2025 until 14 July 2027. In addition, all individual competitive results obtained from 16 June 2025 are disqualified, including forfeiture of medals, points and prizes.
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.
The ITA will not comment further on this case.
¹ Athletes have the right to choose not to have their case referred to a hearing panel. In these instances, the anti-doping organisation will assess the athlete’s case file and establish the applicable consequences pursuant to the anti-doping rules, and the athlete will have the right to accept the proposed consequences. If the athlete refuses the proposed consequences, the case is transferred to a hearing panel. This resolution mechanism is provided for in articles 8.3.1 of the World Aquatics ADR and 8.3 of the World Anti-Doping Code, and is commonly referred to as an agreement on consequences, which is deemed a World Aquatics/ITA decision.
² Athletes included in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP), such as Penelope Oleksiak, have the obligation to provide daily whereabouts as well as a specific daily 60-minute time slot where they will be available for testing. The purpose is to allow anti-doping organisations to locate athletes for unannounced out-of-competition testing. Any combination of three missed tests (which relate to the athletes’ unavailability with respect to their 60-minute time slot) and/or filing failures (which are caused by the athletes’ failure to provide accurate whereabouts) committed within a twelve-month period amount to an ADRV as per article 2.4 of the World Aquatics ADR and World Anti-Doping Code.
