Kei Saito
Japanese short track speed skater
Kei Saito (齋藤慧, Saitō Kei) is a Japanese former short-track speed skater.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Saito tested positive for acetazolamide and was provisionally suspended and withdrawn before competing. In 2019 he was issued with a reprimand as he "bore no significant and only a light degree of fault" and received no sanction.
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