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Banned S. Korean swimmer Park to train in Japan

Xinhua, September 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korean swimming ace Park Tae-hwan will train in Japan while he is serving a doping ban.

The former Olympic swimming champion Monday left for Tokyo to train at Hosei University and he will stay in the Japanese capital until December, according to Yonhap.

Park was handed an 18-month ban by swimming world governing body FINA in March after testing positive for testosterone the previous fall.

Under FINA's anti-doping policy, the 2008 Olympic 400m freestyle winner is not permitted to train at facilities operated by the government or by his national swimming federation. He had been working out at a public pool in Seoul since June. Endit