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South Korea's sports officials meet over Park's impending doping hearing

Xinhua, January 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Friday that a team of South Korean sports officials met on Friday to discuss preparations for an upcoming doping hearing for Park Tae-hwan, who tested positive for testosterone.

According to Yonhap, representatives from the Korean Olympic Committee, the Korea Swimming Federation and from Park's camp met behind closed doors on Friday in Seoul.

World swimming governing body FINA has scheduled a hearing on Park's doping case on Feb. 27 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Park has already hired a Switzerland-based legal representative with expertise in doping cases.

The Beijing Olympic 400m freestyle winner and two-time world champ submitted two urine samples to FINA on Sept. 3, as he was training for the Asian Games in the South Korean city of Incheon that opened later the same month. Both of his A and B samples came out positive, according to Yonhap Thursday.

The 25-year-old, however, passed three doping tests during the Asian Games, and took one silver and five bronze in Incheon.

Park is blaming an injection given by a doctor at a Seoul hospital for the positive results. State prosecutors investigating charges of the doctor's professional negligence said the injection contained testosterone, a substance banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

According to prosecutors, officials from the hospital have claimed that they gave Park the injection to help boost his hormone levels but that they weren't aware that testosterone was a banned substance. Endit