South Korea’s Park begs for Rio Olympic chance
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DISGRACED South Korean swim star Park Tae-hwan literally got down on his hands and knees yesterday and begged the Korean Olympic Committee to let him compete in the Rio Games.
The multiple Olympic medalist completed an 18-month drug ban last month after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid in out-of-competition controls before the 2014 Asian Games. But the 26-year-old remains barred from competing in Rio by a KOC rule banning athletes from representing the country for three years after the expiration of any doping ban. “I will be grateful if I could be given another chance to serve my country and put on a good performance for the South Korean people,” he said at a press event in Incheon west of Seoul. Park then got down on his knees and bowed his head to the floor, in a traditional Korean gesture of extreme remorse. He won 400-meter freestyle gold and 200 freestyle silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and two silver medals at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as 400 world titles in 2007 and 2011.
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