SEOUL (Reuters) - Olympic gold medallist Park Tae-hwan, serving an 18 month ban for doping, will return to action in a public pool in Seoul on Monday after parents of local school children allowed him to join a class, local media reported.
Park, who became South Korea's first swimming gold medallist when he won the 400 metre freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games, was banned by world governing body FINA in March after testing positive for testosterone before September's Asian Games.
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