Doping Cases and Bans in 2025

[Surlympics 1,139]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Penny Oleksiak joins the "omg how on earth do you fill in your whereabouts wrongly three times in barely 8 months?!" club and is very lucky to have her 2 year suspension be over in time for LA 2028.

This is true but 

 

Can someone please explain to me how Penny Oleksiak gets two years for a whereabouts violation, while China’s whole swim team had proven consumption of TMZ and faced zero consequences?

[Dragon 2,026]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test

 

Footballers test positive for the pitch

[phelps 8,278]

3 hours ago, Dragon said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test

 

Footballers test positive for the pitch

and it's not even about minimal trace, it's about a value exceeding a certain threshold 

c'mon! has that woman eaten an entire clod of grass?

 

after all the loughable sex-related excuses, this must be one of the craziest I've ever read of...

[Dragon 2,026]

Back to the Paris Olympics for this one.

Eleni-Klaoudia Polak got sent home from Paris for a positive dope test.

Ok, the Greek never reached the final of the pole vault so getting sent home wasn't a big punishment.

Then we learnt that the test on July 29 was thrown out because she had a legitimate medical use for the drug.

Now we find out that she also tested positive earlier in July and gets banned for 4 years.

[Orangehair43 285]

On 11/26/2025 at 1:27 AM, Surlympics said:

This is true but 

 

Can someone please explain to me how Penny Oleksiak gets two years for a whereabouts violation, while China’s whole swim team had proven consumption of TMZ and faced zero consequences?

Becuase China pay bribes and Canada don’t.