Biological passport

shinyhelmut

two very readable articles on the biological passport here;

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/03/biological-passport-legal-scientific.html

And here;

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/03/biological-passport-effective-fight-or.html

Kléber

Thanks, some interesting reading. Curious to find riders are now taking EPO not to boost their blood but because all the infusions of blood bags tells the body to shut down its own production and EPO is used to switch this mechanism back on.

Overall it's good to see the numbers looking less suspect, or at least doping is not transforming riders any more.

No_Ta_Doctor

Two excellent articles, cheers.

Would be interested to see a graph of levels just under "suspicious" though, might give an idea of how widespread doping "within the limit" is.

yakk

Thanks, a really informative read. And real science, with very clear explanations.
Yak