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Olympic swimming champion Park served 18-month ban
Geneva: South Korean swimming star Park Tae-hwan has been banned for 18 months by world swimming body FINA, after failing a drug test last year.
The ban was announced on Monday and will run until March 2, 2016. It rules Park out of this year’s world championships in Kazan, Russia, but allows him to compete at the Rio Olympics, reported on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old swimmer tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid at an out-of-competition test before the Asian Games on September 3 last year.
FINA said Park’s results from September 3 onward will be annulled and prize money forfeited, which means he will have to return the three individual medals and three relay medals he won at 2014 Asian Games.
When the positive test was announced in January, Park’s representatives blamed it on an injection administered by a local hospital, which offered him free chiropractic and other treatments in July.
Park argued that he was given the injection without knowing what specific substances it contained, while the hospital said it did not know testosterone was a prohibited substance.
Park won the 400-metre freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won silver in the 200-metre freestyle in Beijing and silvers in both events 400m and 200m at the 2012 London Games.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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