TORONTO (AP) — Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak has been given a two-year ban from competition for an anti-doping rule violation, the International Testing Agency said Tuesday.

The seven-time Olympic medalist accepted the suspension for committing three whereabouts failures between October 2024 and June 2025, the ITA said in a news release. The suspension ends July 14, 2027, before the next Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.

“We are committed to the enforcement and support of all anti-doping rules as outlined in the Canadian Anti-Doping Program and through World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency,” Swimming Canada chief executive officer Suzanne Paulins said in a statement. “While we accept Penny’s explanation these were inadvertent errors and she has not used banned substance

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