Source: Shane Jones, The Canadian Press, July 22, 2018
4-time Olympic medallist will resume training in September
Canadian Penny Oleksiak will not compete at next month’s Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
The four-time Olympic medallist won the 100-metre freestyle and 100 butterfly at this week’s Canadian Swimming Trials to qualify for the national team that’s headed to Japan, but is withdrawing from the event to focus on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Swimming Canada says that the 18-year-old from Toronto has come to a joint decision together with Swimming Canada’s high performance leadership team, believing a break would better allow her to return to her highly rigorous training schedule in September.
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