Swimmer Park Tae-hwan has requested the resumption of arbitration proceedings with the world's top sports tribunal after the Korean Sport Olympic Committee(KSOC) on Thursday reaffirmed its decision to ban him from competing in the Rio Olympics this summer over his doping history.

Park's agency, Team GMP, held a news conference Thursday and unveiled the swimmer's stance on the committee decision and his future course of action.

The KSOC reaffirmed the Olympic ban on the swimming champion on Thursday morning and decided not to revise its rules on selecting athletes for the nation’s Olympic team.

Twenty-seven-year-old Park finished serving an 18-month ban imposed by FINA, the world governing body of swimming, in early March this year after he failed a doping test in 2014. But under KSOC rules, athletes cannot compete on national teams for three years after serving penalties related to doping.

On April 26th, Park filed an appeal against the Korean committee's rule with the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS), the highest sports tribunal, and later asked for the proceeding to be put on hold.