Japan’s march has received harsh notice less than a year after celebrating its World Cup in Tokyo 2025 (September 13-21, 2025). Koki Ikeda (26 years old), one of the best walkers in the world and a reference for the Japanese team, was temporarily authorized by Integrity Unit in Athletics in identifying anomalies in your data biological passport. This precaution is what the protocol of World Athletics by indirectly detecting a violation of an anti-doping control that specifies the name of the prohibited substance. Ikeda has been notified of the initiation of the authorization process and must justify the source of the anomalous numbers in his biological passport to escape the final punishment.
Ikeda is Olympic runner-up in Games of Tokyo 2020 and silver in it Oregon World Cup 2022. Exactly, the Spanish Alvaro Martin He fell just short of a medal at Tokyo 2020 when he finished fourth in the event that Ikeda won. At Paris 2024 he placed seventh in the 20km and a month ago he competed in the 10,000m walk in Yamaguchi where he finished third. His season began with a victory at the Japanese Nationals that took him directly to the Games and with silver in the mixed relay at the World Team Championships in Antalya in April.
Source: La Verdad
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