Penny Oleksiak is Canada’s most-decorated female Olympian, with seven medals.

Swimmer Penny Oleksiak says the two-year ban she received from World Aquatics under anti-doping protocols was the result of a handful of administrative errors she made over a period of nine months rather than failed drug tests, and she has apologized to Canadians who were disappointed by the turn of events.

Oleksiak was suspended from competitive swimming until July 14, 2027, after a series of what are known as “whereabouts failures,” related to testing outside of competition periods.

“I’m sorry that this happened,” she told CBC’s Devin Heroux in an interview posted online Tuesday morning. “It wasn’t something I ever wanted to happen. It wasn’t something I ever expected to happen.”

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