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Offline sam

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Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood-Doping Fears
« on: February 22, 2010, 00:14 »
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100212-vancouver-2010-olympics-blood-doping/

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Athletes performing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games are obsessed with blood.

Its cause they are vampires!  :D
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Re: Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood-Doping Fears
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 07:42 »
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Re: Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood-Doping Fears
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 17:11 »
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But athletes using this version of blood doping have been known to inject blood in the morning, race, then have the blood withdrawn later, thereby reducing their chances of being caught by random tests.

Seems a lot to go through to win a race.  Surely the needle marks would give them away?
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Re: Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood-Doping Fears
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2010, 02:32 »
Quote from: Simon on February 22, 2010, 17:11
Seems a lot to go through to win a race.  Surely the needle marks would give them away?

well they probably already have marks from testing...
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