The International Testing Agency says Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak has been given a two-year ban from competition for an anti-doping rule violation.

The ITA said in a release issued Tuesday that Oleksiak accepted the suspension for committing three whereabouts failures between October 2024 and June 2025.

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 substances, anti-doping regulations are i

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