
Toronto Olympic star Penny Oleksiak suspended and could face multi-year ban
Adam Laskaris, Offside
created: July 21, 2025, 2:53 p.m. | updated: July 22, 2025, 3:27 p.m.
One of Canada's most iconic Olympic athletes could face a career-altering blow.
Though many of Oleksiak's contemporaries — including 18-year-old Olympic star Summer McIntosh — are at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Oleksiak has been sidelined since news of her whereabouts violation first came to light earlier this month.
"The athlete has been notified of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of this matter.
Earlier this month, Oleksiak stated that the case is merely an administrative error and is not related to a failed drug test.
"I want to emphasize that this whereabouts case does not involve any banned substance; it's about whether I updated my information correctly," Oleksiak wrote in a statement on her Instagram page earlier this month.
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