The only representative of Japan's swimming already qualified for the next Olympic Games,

Daiya Seto,

has been suspended for the remainder of the year after it was revealed that he had been in an extramarital affair.

As reported on Wednesday by the public channel NHK, citing the Japan Swimming Federation, the sanction applied to Seto by the body will

not prevent him from participating in the next

Tokyo 2020

Olympic Games

, which will begin on July 23.

A Japanese weekly revealed last September that Seto,

26,

had visited a dating hotel that month with a woman who was not his wife, an affair the swimmer himself admitted to and publicly apologized for.

Seto, who has

two daughters with his wife,

called the affair a "careless act" that caused harm to his family, supporters and patrons.

Days after these events were known, the swimmer

resigned as captain of the

Japan Olympic swimming

team

and lost the support of one of the firms that sponsored him, the ANA airline.

After a meeting held on Tuesday, the Japan Swimming Federation decided to force Seto to stay out

of any sporting and official activity for

the remainder of the year.

The sports body adopted the measure considering that the performance was

against the conduct criteria

set by the federation.

Seto appeared Monday before the ethics committee of the sports organization to refer to the case.

Among the events that Sato is excluded from is the Japanese swimming championship next December, although the swimmer can still resort to these sanctions, according to NHK.

Upon learning of the decision, Seto again apologized for his extramarital affair and the

"irresponsible behavior"

it displayed.

The swimmer holds the

world record for the 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual short pool strokes,

the first achieved in 2018 and the second last year.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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