﻿{"id":616417,"date":"2025-07-04T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=616417"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:15:50","slug":"penny-oleksiak-withdraws-from-worlds-citing-pending-whereabouts-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/penny-oleksiak-withdraws-from-worlds-citing-pending-whereabouts-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Oleksiak Withdraws From Worlds, Citing Pending Whereabouts Case; Swimming Canada Provides Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Penny Oleksiak Withdraws From Worlds, Citing Pending Whereabouts Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Olympic gold medalist <strong>Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> is withdrawing from the team for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships due to a pending whereabouts case.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak made the announcement on social media, and Swimming Canada confirmed it with a post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLs0x9Jzt2v\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by penelope oleksiak (@typicalpen)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak confirmed that she is \u201cinvolved in a Whereabouts case with World Aquatics that\u2019s still in the preliminary stages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize that this Whereabouts case does not involve any banned substance; it\u2019s about whether I updated my information correctly,\u201d Oleksiak wrote. \u201c\u2026I am and always have been a clean athlete and will be making no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak said she is withdrawing from Worlds \u201cout of respect for Swimming Canada, my fellow racers and clean sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swimming Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLs3AnjON2q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted the note<\/a>, adding this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>While it\u2019s tough news, she\u2019s putting the team first due to potential consequences for failing to update whereabouts information. Swimming Canada is in full support of Penny\u2019s decision and we believe she is a clean athlete who made an administrative mistake. We wish her well and look forward to seeing her back in the pool.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The International Testing Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ita.sport\/news\/the-ita-notifies-swimmer-penelope-oleksiak-of-an-apparent-anti-doping-rule-violation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed the<\/a> &#8220;apparent&#8221; violation, stating that Oleksiak had committed three whereabouts violations between October 2025 and June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The athlete has been notified of the case and has accepted a voluntary provisional suspension pending the resolution of this matter,&#8221; the ITA wrote. &#8220;She has the right to provide her explanations as to the circumstances of each whereabouts failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak, 25, is the most decorated Olympian in Canadian history with seven medals. She won the gold medal (in a tie with American <strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong>) in the 100 freestyle at the 2016 Olympics at the age of 16, one of four medals at that Olympics. She added three relays medals in Tokyo in 2021 and competed at the Paris Olympics in 2024. The Toronto native has bounced around training locations over the last couple of years, leaving the Swimming Canada High Performance Centre and spending time with Mission Viejo Nadadores in California.<\/p>\n<p>Whereabouts cases have ensnared other gold medalists, including Tunisian <strong>Ahmed Hafnaoui<\/strong>, and other high-profile Canadians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ruslan-gaziev-suspended-for-anti-doping-whereabouts-violation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recently<\/a> <strong>Ruslan Gaziev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oleksiak had won the 100 free at Canadian Trials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/canadian-trials-night-4-finals-ilya-kharun-dominates-200-butterfly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in June<\/a>, earning a spot in the individual event at the World Championships by hitting the automatic qualification time. She was also likely to swim the 50 free, which she won at Trials in a high B cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Oleksiak Withdraws From Worlds, Citing Pending Whereabouts Case Canadian Olympic gold medalist Penny Oleksiak is withdrawing from the team for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships due to a pending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":614815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077],"tags":[70619,881,53577,25053],"class_list":["post-616417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","tag-2025-world-aquatics-championships","tag-canada","tag-penny-oleksiak","tag-swimming-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Penny Oleksiak Withdraws From Worlds, Citing Whereabouts Case<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Penny Oleksiak is withdrawing from the Canadian team for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships due to a pending whereabouts case.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/penny-oleksiak-withdraws-from-worlds-citing-pending-whereabouts-case\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penny Oleksiak Withdraws From Worlds, Citing Pending Whereabouts Case; 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