Park fails to qualify for 400m freestyle finals

RIO DE JANEIRO: South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan, the 2008 Olympic champion who won a late battle to swim at the Rio Games after appealing against a doping ban, failed

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RIO DE JANEIRO: South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan, the 2008 Olympic champion who won a late battle to swim at the Rio Games after appealing against a doping ban, failed to qualify for the men’s 400 metres freestyle finals on Saturday. The 2012 silver medallist finished fourth in his heat, won by China’s world and Olympic champion Sun Yang, but his time of three minutes 45.63 seconds left him 10th overall with only the top eight going through.