Park asks CAS to 'mediate' in fight with KOC over Rio ban


  • Swimming
  • Saturday, 14 May 2016

China's gold medallist Qiu Bo competes in the men's 10m platform final at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon October 3, 2014. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

SEOUL (Reuters) - Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to "mediate" with the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) after he was left off the team due to a controversial doping ban, the KOC has said.

Park, who has already served an 18-month doping ban imposed by world governing body FINA, is fighting to overturn a KOC regulation that has tacked on an additional three-year suspension, which would rule him out of the Rio Olympics.

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