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- Updated: May 14, 2016
Park Tae-hwan*, having served what under the 2015 WADA Code can only be seen as a lenient 18-month suspension after a doping positive for testosterone in 2014, has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to “mediate” with the Korean Olympic Committee refusing to allow him to race at the Rio Olympic Games.
Park’s ban ended in March but under domestic KOC rules, any Korean athlete who tests positive cannot compete for the country for three years after the end of the international suspension period.
Critics suggest that represents double jeopardy and is why the IOC was forced to abandon the “Osaka rule” that was brought in to prevent those who fall foul of anti-doping rules from competition at the Olympic Games following any suspension period, regardless of when that ended.
In response, the World Anti-Doping Agency upped its top penalty for a first offence to a possible four years, not two, for certain types of offence and certain circumstances.
World sport is facing an unprecedented drug crisis, WADA staring at more damning evidence on Russia this week, evidence that yet again comes with links to swimming. But against that backdrop, the likes of Sun Yang* will race in Rio this August and Park believes it is only fair to let him back in.
The KOC, which is due to meet Park once more on May 25, listened to his plea but rejected it. Now, a KOC spokesman says today:
“Park asked CAS for mediation, and CAS notified the KOC and the swimming federation that such a request came in. There is no change in the KOC stance that doping should be dealt with zero tolerance.
Park Tae Hwan faced the media at his public apology in Seoul [TV still] last year
The spokesman added added that while …
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