Cycling: Flags change tack on drug landscape (The New Zealand Herald)
“At the moment they argue that the market for athletes is so tiny it is not worth it,” he said.
But the biggest effect Ricco’sitting downfall will have - by the side of the fact it is another deterrent to athletes who might be reflecting about EPO, which boosts oxygen levels in blood - is that it could defeat the proceeding of “micro-dosing”.
As the term suggests, micro-dosing involves athletes using tiny amounts of EPO over a long period of time, so in that place is no tell-tale augury of sharp increases of red blood cell production.
So far EPO has proven notoriously hard to detect.
Last year a global total of 24 athletes tested positive for EPO among more than 200,000 tests.
“We’re kidding ourselves on the supposition that we think there were only 24 athletes out there using EPO,” Steel said.
Most of the New Zealand team headed for China have been tested, with athletes like Valerie Vili, who competes in a sport that has experienced its share of drugs scandals, on more than one exigency.
The IOC will conduct hither and thither 4500 tests in Beijing, every increase of more than 800 on the number of tests at Athens four years ago.
Wada analysed 223,898 samples last year; 4402 delivered each “adverse” finding.
Drugs-tainted open-air sports and cycling accounted conducive to the majority of the tests along with aquatics and soccer.
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