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The documentary "Tainted Blood" is freely available on YouTube apparently uploaded by Jill Yesko herself: View: https://youtu.be/yFfd83I-stc?si=fyT6jSbewNyxzMsu A fairly interesting and well directed movie albeit not that much new information for the true nerds and geeks familiar with the...

In addition to this, there is also a sizable group of scientists, who are of the opinion that there is no extra boost in total-Hb with hypoxia vs. normoxia in elite athletes. Gore, Ashenden and Lundby have at least tilted towards this position. Interestingly also the first blood doping...

If the main goal of anti-doping is to hamper blood doping use and subsequently limit the advantage of dopers and to protect their health, then ABP is a fine tool. Maybe a reason it catches next-to-nobody is that it forces to be relatively conservative with the blood doping - program, which is a...

There can be many reasons to use high altitude training even if one blood doped of which the most evident ones are to hide the use of EPO. If one is a low-responder to high altitude training, there is nothing preventing taking a few extra HCT points with EPO. There is also some research that...

The nature of the HCT boost is also different. HCT increases usually by up to 5 points or more at altitude in a few days because of plasma shift when blood becomes thicker when there is just less fluid in the veins, e.g from 40 % to 45 %. In addition to this, there is the "real" HCT boost in...

If you treat the case of this Norwegian skier equivalent to Max Hauke with the needle in his vein, You keep proving my point. I fully agree with Kingjr: "But there isn't even a 'case'." There is no there there.

I think this long tirade with the Norwegian skier barely mentioned is a good prima facie for my thesis: "F-k the doping Norwegians, if there is even a flimsiest case against one of them, let's nail that guy / gal!" Again, totally possible that they have a good doping program and many / most of...

Whether Norwegians dope or not is a different question than whether there is anything suspicious in this case. There is the interesting phenomenon to have the assumption that some country or athlete is tainted and therefore very flimsy evidence is proof that they indeed are. Sometimes I think...

Apparently Eddie B didn't oppose the treatment, but it would be nice to have a source for this type of strong allegation. His name is mentioned once in the article by Les Earnest about the LA84 blood doping scheme with Ed Burke as the main culprit albeit Eddie B was involved. The reference to...

The origins on the 1984 scandal is usually traced not to Eddie B. but to Ed Burke reading an article in The Physician and Sports Medicine summarizing all the research on blood doping written by physiologist Norman Gledhill, which he shared with Eddie B. There was some debate inside the team...

Strong words, because he twice almost has a positive for EPO -- in 2001 (Tour de Suisse) and (IIRC) in the early 2003, when some riders were warned by the UCI that the isoform - ratios in their urine were close to being classified positive for EPO. The half life is longer with subcutaneous...

AFAIK, there is next to no evidence of East German athletes using blood doping except in the last few years of the regime. Just random speculation, but there is just no smoking gun. There exists a sizeable amount of material on the R&D of the Soviet blood doping - program from the 1970s and...

Was Floyd's performance per se supermutant or was it only extraordinary vs. the rest of the Peloton? IIRC, he wasn't seen as a serious GC contender anymore after his complete failure at the earlier stage and therefore there existed little incentives to catch him during his desperado breakaway...

I think Juliet Macur is pretty much the only journalist, who has claimed that Lance was on EPO in 1993, and even she flip flops about whether he took it for the first time in 1995 as David Walsh, Reed Albergotti and his teammates maintain.

Should be emphasized that Ingebritsen's feat wasn't like WR in 200m hurdles. flat 150m or 25000m, which have (likely) also a slightly "lowish" quality WR because not competed that often. With Ingebritsen's 2-mile speed, his 3000m time would've been almost exactly 7:21.89, only 1.22 seconds...