I think your conflating repercussions and being barred, as
@PUO3 said.
There is a massive difference between a private company cutting endorsement ties w an athlete and a state entity stopping one from competing, particularly in a case like this. He wasn’t caught cheating. He said said something that the powers that be deemed offensive ( I agree It was in poor taste btw), and they pulled his license.
It concerns me that some countries in west are now adopting speech controls, tactics totalitarian regimes have used since time immemorial to manage dissenters. If a group is large enough they get to control the narrative, they dictate what can be said and what can’t. See present day China in relation to covid, the doctors silenced and disappeared because they dared to tell the truth. That has always been the end result of adopting those so societal controls.
in American we have long history of defending a speech we personally find offensive because most of us understand that if all speech isn’t defended no speech is safe. The majority of people in the west used to understand this concept. I assume the younger crowd is far enough removed from the Second World War and Cold War to understand how bad things were. I suppose it’s one of those , if one is ignorant of history they are bound to repeat it.
My country’s founders speech was repressed by the crown and they made sure that would never happen to future generations by placing a free speech safe guard in our founding document, the Constitution.
I’m not trying to beat you up my friend, I’m just concerned by this thought process. History show us were this leads.