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Park Tae-hwan Provides FINA With An Asterisk For A First Gold At Windsor Worlds
- Updated: December 7, 2016
World s/c Championships
Windsor, Canada, Day 1
Men’s 400m freestyle
A fitting FINA start to the world short-course championships in Windsor at the end of a year soaked in doping scandal and woeful bureacratic response: Park Tae-hwan*, the Korean who brought his own house down when it came to tough stances on drugs, claimed the first gold of the meet in 3:34.59 over 400m freestyle, a Russian challenger right there with him.
The true sequence of events in the Park doping case are likely to remain a matter for the swimmer and the doctor he turned to for a lift when feeling fatigued. What we do know, one way or another, is that Park tested positive for testosterone and was banned for 18 months.
He served that time but then had another two battles ahead: claiming innocence of …
