SEOUL: Swimmer Park Tae-hwan is as yet holding up to get notification from the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) on whether it will drop a disputable standard that has attached on three years to his doping boycott forced by representing body FINA, his administration group said on Tuesday.
Park finished a 18-month boycott in March in the wake of testing positive for testosterone in front of the Incheon Asian Games in Sept.
2014 yet under KOC directions he should hold up an additional three years to be qualified for national determination once more.
Faultfinders of the direction say it rebuffs a competitor twice for the same offense and there have been proposals the swimmer could take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
In 2011, CAS decided that the IOC's "Osaka Rule", which banned competitors hit with against doping suspensions of no less than six months from contending at the following Olympic Games, was its very own infringement statutes.
Under the KOC's tenet, Park would pass up a great opportunity for this present summer's Rio Olympics and recapture qualification at 29 years old, ordinarily well past a swimmer's top.
In spite of the boycott, Park chose to contend finally week's national trials and won the 100m, 200m, 400m and 1,500m free-form occasions.
He swam the year's fourth speediest time in the 400m.
The 26-year-old, who won gold in the 400m free-form at the 2008 Beijing Games to end up the principal Korean to win an Olympic swimming decoration, had heard nothing specifically from the KOC and would soon settle on his best course of action, Team GMP told Reuters.
"Park has not got any last notice from the KOC," the authority said by phone on Tuesday.
"On the off chance that there is no answer soon, Park will contact the KOC for a last position and settle on a choice after that."
In a meeting with South Korea's Yonhap news organization on Monday, Dick Pound, the previous head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), said the KOC could wind up in boiling hot water with the International Olympic Committee over Park's case.
As a signatory to the WADA Code, the KOC needed to submit to the principles set down for worldwide game and by forcing extra endorses on competitors for doping it could get to be rebellious, Pound said.
"That has numerous repercussions," he told Yonhap.
"One of the principles in the Olympic Charter is you should be code-agreeable to have the capacity to take part in the Olympic Games.
"The KOC remained by its hard line on Tuesday yet said the issue of "twofold risk" could be talked about at an up and coming meeting.
"While twofold peril might be an issue in light of point of reference, in addition imperative is the solid will to quit doping," a KOC official told Reuters by phone.
The authority included that the KOC, as a National Olympic Committee (NOC), had the privilege to settle on such a choice.
"Regardless of the possibility that a report is documented to the IOC, it can just make suggestions. (This issue) is the privilege of the NOC."
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