Toronto’s swim star Penny Olexiaq has been informed about a clear anti-doping rule violation by the International Testing Agency.
According to the ITA, Olexiak carried out three hideouts of failures within a period of 12 months between October 2024 and June 2025.
He has been made aware of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the case to the case.
He has the right to provide his clarification for each of the three wherbout failures.
Given that the case is going on, there will be no comment ahead of ITA, World Aquatics or Olexiaq during the ongoing proceedings.
This means that the third missed Test came after qualifying for the Canadian team at the World Aquatics Championship in Singapore.
Now in a removed Instagram post, Olexiaq announced two weeks ago that she was Withdrawing from World Championship team and accepting a voluntary provisional suspensionAny final approval will be reduced by the amount of suspended time under voluntary provisional suspension.
In the post, Olexiaq said “I am and always a clean athlete” and that the case “does not include any restricted substance; it’s about whether I have updated my information correctly.”
Swimming Canada echoed Bhavna and said that “we support her decision and believe that she is a clean athlete that has made an administrative mistake.”
The case of a hideout is an anti-doping rule violation that can affect athlete eligibility, even if they have never taken banned substances. The world anti-doping code defines a hideout in the form of any combination of three discarded tests or filing failures over a 12-month period.
Athletes which are members of the “registered test pool”, which is the highest level of athlete test, is required to report accurate and updated to their hideout at all times. This is because they can be tested at any place at any time and without any advance notice.
As World aquaticsIf an athlete in the test pool “presents late, incorrect or incomplete hideouts, which leads to (they) due to being unavailable, (they) can achieve a filing failure.”
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 19 July 2025.
