Canada's Penny Oleksiak at swimming competition in the US state of Illinois in March 2025

Canada's Penny Oleksiak at swimming competition in the US state of Illinois in March 2025

 Michael Reaves

Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak, the country's most decorated female Olympian, has accepted a two-year suspension over her failure to report her whereabouts three times within a year, swimming officials said Tuesday.

Repeated failures by an athlete to update information about where they are amounts to a doping violation, as it obstructs drug testing.

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