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18 July 2025
Penelope Oleksiak committed three whereabouts failures1 within a 12-month period between October 2024 and June 2025.
The athlete has been notified of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of this matter.2
She has the right to provide her explanations as to the circumstances of each whereabouts failure.
Given that the case is underway, there will be no further comments during the ongoing proceedings.
¹Athletes 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. The consequences for such ADRV are a period of Ineligibility between one and two years and the disqualification of results obtained since the date of the ADRV, namely the date of the occurrence of the third whereabouts failure (article 10.3.2 WT ADR).
² Under Article 7.4.4 of the World Aquatics ADR, athletes, on their own initiative can voluntarily accept a Provisional Suspension while their case is ongoing. The time served under voluntary provisional suspension will eventually be deducted from any period of ineligibility that may be imposed on the athlete for their ADRV.
