Tag: swimming

Picture of the Day: No Helping Hand for You

| July 28, 2019
Moment of Gwangju
Moment of GwangjuBrazil’s Joao de Lucca (L) refuses to take the hand of China’s Sun Yang as he comes out of the water after completing a 4X200m freestyle relay heat at the 2019 FINA Championships at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, on July 26, 2019. Other competitors have refused to have their picture taken with Sun over allegations that he destroyed vials containing blood samples for a doping test. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Swimming to Dokdo

| July 24, 2015

Swimming toward Dokdo

Members of an amateur swimming association jump into the sea at a port in the southeastern port city of Ulsan on July 20, 2015. The 88 swimmers plan to swim about 400 kilometers to reach South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo on July 25, as part of festivities to mark the 70th anniversary on Aug. 15 of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. (Yonhap)

Park Tae-hwan Suspended and Out of the Next Olympics for Doping

| March 26, 2015

Not only is he out of the next Olympics, but I have to imagine this will kill his endorsement deals which have to be worth a lot of money in Korea:

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Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan was suspended 18 months for doping.

In a doping hearing session in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, the world swimming governing body FINA handed down Park the ban for being tested positive for testosterone in a drug test in September.

The punishment will expire on March 2, 2016, giving the 26-year-old a chance to swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

However, the Korean Olympic Committee prohibits an athlete whose suspension expired less than three years before the Olympics from representing the country

FINA added that Park’s results from Sept. 3 will be annulled and prize money will be forfeited, meaning he will have to return the one silver and five bronzes he won at last year’s Asian Games.  [Korea Times]

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