Penny Oleksiak , Canada’s most decorated female Olympian, says she never expected to be ostracized from sport for whereabouts failures and is trying to keep going forward by training alone in public pools.

“I’m not allowed to have a coach. I’m not allowed to train with my teammates … I’m just kind of like isolated, it’s definitely difficult. But I’m trying to find little ways around it that (are) fulfilling to me,” Oleksiak told the CBC’s Devin Heroux in an exclusive interview in Los Angeles.

This is the first time Oleksiak has spoken publicly since she formally accepted a two-year ban from sport last month for violating anti-doping rules by being unavailable for testing three times within a 12-month period.

In the CBC interview, she sheds some light on how she missed the tests, the

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