In the first doping case of the ongoing Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Games, 21-year-old short-track speed skater of Japan, Kei Saito, tested positive for acetazolamide, an unauthorised diuretic which can be used to mask performance-enhancing drugs. Saito was summoned before a CAS tribunal yesterday and suspended from the Games pending a full investigation. <br/><br/>Saito, a human biology student, reached the athletes village on February 4. He was woken up at 2:00 am the following morning by doping testers who took two samples. Both samples tested positive.<br/>Saito said in a statement that he would fight to prove his innocence because he does not remember taking the drug and it was incomprehensible. <br/><br/>

In the first doping case of the ongoing Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Games, 21-year-old short-track speed skater of Japan, Kei Saito, tested positive for acetazolamide, an unauthorised diuretic which can be used to mask performance-enhancing drugs. Saito was summoned before a CAS tribunal yesterday and suspended from the Games pending a full investigation. <br/><br/>Saito, a human biology student, reached the athletes village on February 4. He was woken up at 2:00 am the following morning by doping testers who took two samples. Both samples tested positive.<br/>Saito said in a statement that he would fight to prove his innocence because he does not remember taking the drug and it was incomprehensible. <br/><br/>