Race walker and Olympic silver medalist Koki Ikeda suspended 4 years for doping

"Ikeda won silver at the 2012 (sic) Tokyo Olympics and silver at the 2022 world championships."

I do not believe the Tokyo Olympics were held in 2012...

Moderator: Thanks for pointing that out. It has been fixed.

I can walk realllllly fast!

yeah? I can walk even faster- it’s called “running” lol

Hopefully this is the very last we will see of this drug cheating swine.

Of all the olympic disciplines, "Walking" is on the very top of things that should be canceled. It is a very unnatural, artificial looking form of movement and we already have lots of different running events, track as well as road. On top of that, catching a cheater during the race is very manual, by more or less watchful eyes only, no AI support here. Just get rid of this whole stuff.

Koike Ikeda makes up 1/6 of all "Japanese sportspeople in doping cases" listed in Wikipedia.

If you are curious about what kind of doping -

Olympic medalist race walker Koki Ikeda accused of blood doping {ESPN}

The 26-year-old walker was notified of a charge based on suspect readings in his biological passport, the AIU said. The passport can indicate markers of doping over time without an athlete testing positive for a banned drug.

Hmmm - I'm wondering if it could be connected to "Carbon Monoxide Doping", which just got banned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) earlier this month - "Performance-Enhancing Poison: Cycling Bans Carbon Monoxide Doping" [explorersweb].

That's a poor athletes version of Xenon gas - "Four wealthy clients to attempt Everest with the help of xenon gas. The amateur mountaineers will pay over $150,000 per head to climb ..."