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Suspended Swimmer Park to Train in Japan

Written: 2015-09-22 11:19:17Updated: 2015-09-22 12:31:19

Suspended Swimmer Park to Train in Japan

Swimmer Park Tae-hwan who is currently suspended over a doping case will continue training in Japan.
 
His management company Team GMP said Tuesday that Park left for Tokyo on Monday afternoon with his manager and physical trainer.
 
Park will train at Hosei University in Tokyo starting Thursday for three months until December alongside the university's swim team. 
 
Park trained at Hosei for about a month in the summer of 2007 when he was a student at Dankook University’s graduate school. His current visit is as a foreign exchange student as Hosei and Dankook share sisterhood ties.
 
The former Olympic champion tested positive for the banned substance testosterone last September just before the opening of the Incheon Asian Games. 
 
He received an 18-month ban from swimming’s international governing body FINA and was stripped of medals won in the Incheon games.
 
Since the disciplinary measures, Park has struggled to find a training venue and has been training at a public pool for two hours a day under his former coach Roh Min-sang since June. 

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