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

Published 05/13/2016, 09:54 PM
Updated 05/13/2016, 10:00 PM
© Reuters. South Korea's Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan attends a news conference at a hotel in Seoul

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.

“Park asked CAS for mediation, and CAS notified the KOC and the swimming federation that such a request came in," a KOC spokesman said on Saturday.

He added that Park had requested an interview with the KOC and the meeting had been scheduled for May 25.

© Reuters. South Korea's Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan attends a news conference at a hotel in Seoul

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