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To: Paulus

I suspect he was blood doping -- getting a transfusion of blood rich in red cells that he set aside six weeks or two months earlier, when he was using testosterone as a training aid. He probably just got the blood bottles mixed up and tapped the wrong one.

More on blood doping here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2107096/


9 posted on 08/08/2006 1:28:59 AM PDT by Kiss Me Hardy
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To: Kiss Me Hardy
I suspect he was blood doping

The thesis of the article is that once a certain amount of doped testosterone is present in the body, it can take a long time for the levels to drop. How does blood doping account for the immediate drop in levels after the time of the positive?

10 posted on 08/08/2006 1:49:40 AM PDT by ikka
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To: Kiss Me Hardy

According to Landis's website, he showed NORMAL levels of testosterone; what skewed the results was an unusually LOW reading for the E value. Thus the popular idea that he was loaded with 11 times the normal level of testosterone is false.


17 posted on 08/08/2006 8:07:35 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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