(ATR) South Korea IOC member Dae Sung Moon will not be attending the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The IOC executive board, acting upon the recommendation of the IOC Ethics Commission, has suspended Moon for the second time involving charges that he plagiarized his university thesis.
The suspension is a result of a Korean court rejecting Moon’s latest appeal of the plagiarism charges.
The Ethics Commission ruled that by losing the appeal the IOC Executive Board could reinstate the previous suspension. The EB took that step earlier this week.
Moon, 39, was elected to the IOC in 2008 as a member of the IOC Athletes Commission. His term ends this year. Moon won gold in taekwondo at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
In 2014 the Seoul Northern District Court ruled that Moon "used many parts of other papers without changing a single word and without citing them." He was stripped of his doctorate degree in sports psychology and immediately filed suit in protest of the decision.
By blocking Moon from attending the IOC Session set to begin August 1 in Rio, South Korea will be without representation at the meeting. The senior IOC member from South Korea is Kun Hee Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics. Lee, 75, remains in a coma following a stroke two years ago.
Written by Ed Hula.
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