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2004-11-02 4:53 PM

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Subject: Blood Doping
My friends and I talk about the Tour and how guys get either disqualified or drop dead from taking EPO, steroids and/or other banned substances. I wonder what the percentage of people who do Ironman's are taking some sorta of magic powder??? gotta wonder............. Pura Vida, Dave skar :-)


2004-11-02 5:56 PM
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wait a sec. blood doping is illegal in triathlon races?

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2004-11-02 9:17 PM
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I have wondered about it but at the Ironman races I'd think any stimulant would be bad, you'd just hurt yourself. About the only thing I could think of would be something to make you retain a bit of extra water and salt will do that in the days leading up to a race.

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2004-11-02 9:23 PM
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I'm not in the medical field (Cathy?  A little help here?), but I'd think that anything that could boost you for 8+ hours would likely kill you once you got on that podium.  I would tend to think that if any triathlete was abusing something, it'd more likely be in Olympic distance races. 
2004-11-02 9:59 PM
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Yeah, but Tour de France guys blood dope and their race is much much longer...i.e. 3 weeks.

Their long days compare to a single ironman for the best of the best (8 hrs) so I'm sure procrit would work for an ironman race...but i'm not a doc.

Quite interesting discussion, however.

Edited by Steve- 2004-11-02 10:02 PM
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