Penny Oleksiak has been banned from competitive swimming for two years.

The 25-year-old Canadian accepted a two-year ban from competition due to three whereabouts failures . The ban has been applied retroactively to this past July 15, meaning that Oleksiak cannot compete through July 14, 2027.

Athlete whereabouts boil down to the World Anti Doping Agency’s drug testing program. Any athlete selected for such a test is provided a 60-minute window in which they are available to take any required test. The window is to be provided 90 days in advance.

As per World Aquatics, an athlete may receive a filing failure if they submit late, inaccurate, or incomplete whereabouts that lead them to be unavailable for testing.

Oleksiak was forced to withdraw from the World Aquatics Championship in J

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