Park, who won South Korea's only ever swimming gold in the 400 meters freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games, was handed the ban Monday by world swimming governing body FINA after testing positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition drug test. The FINA ban began retroactively the day of the positive test in early September and will expire on March 2, 2016.
Park's agency has blamed the results on an injection administered by a local hospital, which offered him free chiropractic and other treatments in July.
