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Park Tae-hwan Suggests State Figure Sought To Blackmail Him Over Doping Ruling
- Updated: November 25, 2016
Park Tae-hwan*, the 2008 Olympic freestyle champion who in 2014 tested positive for testosterone, has accused Korea’s former vice-sports-minister Kim Chong of seeking to blackmail him into dropping his challenge to a national rule that would have blocked him from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games had it not been for a successful challenge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The 27-year-old Park took the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) to CAS to bypass a domestic rule that bars any Korean athlete from racing for their country for three years beyond the end of any international doping suspension period. The rule is there to avoid having athletes who fell foul of ant-doping rules …
