Tag: Park Tae-hwan

South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan competes in the men’s 400m freestyle heat during the swimming event at the 31st Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 6, 2016. Park, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, finished 10th overall in the heats in 3:45.63, missing out on the final, which is open to the top eight qualifiers. (Yonhap)

Not only is he out of the next Olympics, but I have to imagine this will kill his endorsement deals which have to be worth a lot of money in Korea:

Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan was suspended 18 months for doping.

In a doping hearing session in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, the world swimming governing body FINA handed down Park the ban for being tested positive for testosterone in a drug test in September.

The punishment will expire on March 2, 2016, giving the 26-year-old a chance to swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

However, the Korean Olympic Committee prohibits an athlete whose suspension expired less than three years before the Olympics from representing the country

FINA added that Park’s results from Sept. 3 will be annulled and prize money will be forfeited, meaning he will have to return the one silver and five bronzes he won at last year’s Asian Games.  [Korea Times]

You can read the rest at the link.

S. Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan fails drug test http://t.co/qhSFSqiBGt #ParkTaeHwan

— The Korea Times (@koreatimes) January 26, 2015