If Park receives a ban, it is likely to be applied retroactively from Sept. 3.
But a ban of any length of time would result in the loss of the silver and five bronze medals Park won at last year’s Asian Games.
If he receives a full two-year suspension, the Dankook University graduate school student would not be able to compete in 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Even if he receives a shorter ban, a KOC rule would make him ineligible for the Rio de Janeiro Games. Under the rule, an athlete who has been suspended for a positive drug test cannot be selected for the national team for three years from the end of the suspension.
Unless the KOC revises its own rule, Park would not be able to compete until late 2017.
Given his age, that would likely mean that Park’s Olympic career would be over.