Can Lance Win 6 - Post Your Prediction - Page 21

07-03-2004, 01:21 PM

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:20:14 -0700,
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Ryan Cousineau <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

>> What _aren't_ we testing for?
>
>There's two issues here. One is that EPO can only be detected for a few
>days after use, but has performance benefits beyond that time. Which is
>one reason why guys like Lance get drug-tested out of competition, and
>one reason why young riders today might be able to get away with using
>EPO.

Even after developing a test for a suspect supplement and proving its
reliability, getting it 'approved' by the various bodies always seems
to follow an intense period of red-tape wrangling that ends up leaving
loop holes for the big fish and netting the small fry for the public's
appeasement.
.. . . and for the good of the 'sport'.
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Labs with the cutting edge stuff are having to fend off (or not)
people offering money to be guinea pigs.
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