Study claims that EPO does not increase cyclists performance

[Bavarianrider]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121205200059.htm

Mods please change title. Of cours ethe has is a does

 

[the asian]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121205200059.htm

OMG, Conconi and Ferrari have been duping these poor cyclists all these years

 

[Ex-trackie]

Quote from link:
""Athletes and their medical staff may believe EPO enhances performance, but there is no evidence that anyone performed good experiments to check if EPO would actually improve performance in elite cyclists," says lead researcher Professor Adam Cohen, who works at the Centre for Human Drug Research in Leiden, The Netherlands."

Sorry, that just isn't so. For example, a quick Pubmed search of EPO articles by Carsten Lundby gives 20 papers describing the physiological effects of EPO in a sports environment:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=lundby epo

 

[DominicDecoco]

Wasn't this 'discovered' and discussed months ago?

 

[Master50]

Wasn't this 'discovered' and discussed months ago?

Yes this is old and the article from outdoor magazine has even had a published rebuttal either on CN or Velo.