{"id":934481,"date":"2026-10-20T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934481\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:26:10","slug":"daria-pikulik-keeps-olympic-medal-despite-whereabouts-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934481\/","title":{"rendered":"Daria Pikulik Keeps Olympic Medal Despite Whereabouts Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polish cyclist Daria Pikulik hasn’t raced since March after 18-month ban, but she keeps her Paris Olympic medal.<\/p>\n

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Daria Pikulik, right, was hit with an 18-month whereabouts ban. (Photo: Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Updated October 19, 2026 05:20PM<\/p>\n

Olympic silver medalist Daria Pikulik has been hit with an 18-month whereabouts ban, but will keep her Olympic medal, the International Testing Agency<\/a> announced Monday.<\/p>\n

The Polish rider\u2019s ban ran from December 9, 2024, through June 8, 2026. All results and prizes during that period are disqualified, but there were no major victories.<\/p>\n

Her Paris Olympic<\/a> silver remains on her palmar\u00e8s because she won it before the sanction period.<\/p>\n

Pikulik finished behind American Jennifer Valente and ahead of New Zealand\u2019s Ally Wollaston in the August 2024 omnium in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never my intention to violate anti-doping rules,\u201d Pikulik wrote in a statement on Instagram, translated from Polish.<\/p>\n

The ITA, which runs the UCI\u2019s independent anti-doping program, said Pikulik committed three whereabouts failures within 12 months.<\/p>\n

Pikulik, 29, said the missed tests occurred in September and October 2023, followed by a third in September 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent the past two years trying to defend my good name,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Pikulik said the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against her in March 2026 without determining a sanction. She said the suspension was finalized in September.<\/p>\n

The road and track rider, who raced for Human Powered Health, also addressed her absence from competition since March.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an incredibly difficult time for me and those closest to me,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThroughout my career, I have undergone dozens of doping tests without any problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I must accept what happened and put it behind me,\u201d Pikulik wrote. \u201cI apologize to everyone I have let down, and I thank everyone who stood by me during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish cyclist Daria Pikulik hasn’t raced since March after 18-month ban, but she keeps her Paris Olympic medal.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,214038,63,784,73253,85,175905,501105,251187,111820,67883],"class_list":["post-934481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-audio-true","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-news","tag-sports","tag-tag-human-powered-health","tag-tag-international-testing-agency","tag-tag-olympic-games","tag-tag-womens-racing","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}