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Blood doping - blood passport issues (Austrian doping ring busted)

py · 2019-03-12 09:30:42

This week's Cycling tips podcast had a couple of snippets from the podcast linked below which has a cross country skier explaining how the blood passport checks were easily beaten :( https://fasterskier.com/fsarticle/nordic-nation-estonias-karel-tammjarv/ TLDR: Drew blood in to 6 bags over a few months, performed…

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12-03-2019 10:30am

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This week's Cycling tips podcast had a couple of snippets from the podcast linked below which has a cross country skier explaining how the blood passport checks were easily beaten

https://fasterskier.com/fsarticle/nordic-nation-estonias-karel-tammjarv/

TLDR: Drew blood in to 6 bags over a few months, performed transfusions immediately before and after races or training blocks to avoid really high red blood cell count, had ways of beating the blood passport checks even before removing the blood after a race if they placed

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#2 12-03-2019 4:12pm
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py wrote: »

removing the blood after a race if they placed

That's pretty hard core.

"Bring me my podium leeches!"

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