blood doping

At the time, blood doping was not a banned practice.

Many methods of blood doping are illegal, particularly in professional sport.

"Somebody tell me why athletes won't go back to blood doping.

Accordingly, cobalamin is of little to no value in blood doping.

In the news conference later, Tarasov was questioned about blood doping.

The Spanish police have implicated more than 100 riders in their investigation of blood doping.

At the time, blood doping was not considered a huge deal in road cycling and he mostly escaped punishment.

Tyler Hamilton's gold medal came into question when he failed a blood doping test.

This preparation included blood doping, as Moser would later admit.

Vinokourov also tested positive for blood doping after winning Monday's stage 15.

He crashed and withdrew and was later suspended for blood doping.

He had previously tested positive for blood doping, and was suspended for two years in 2005.

This suggested athletes working with Fuentes had been boosting their performance in ways other than blood doping.

The first case came in the 2004 Olympics, when he was accused of blood doping by Olympic officials.

Hamilton worked with him until his positive doping test for blood doping.

"If that avenue is blocked, you could go back to the old style, like blood doping," Catlin said.

Later it was found that the fluids were the hormone Lutelef, which can be used as a new form of blood doping.

Lynch finished a surprising second in last year's world championship, then admitted that he had been helped by so-called blood doping.

They read arcane scientific data on blood doping to learn what they will be up against when he presents his case.

Many athletes train at high altitude to take advantage of this effect — a legal form of blood doping.

Landis also claims there was blood doping at the 2004 Tour de France.

"It's as wrong as blood doping or taking steroids.

His two-year suspension for blood doping in 2004 ends this month, but his future remains uncertain.

Recent experimental evidence has proved the efficacy of cobalt chloride in blood doping.

The banned practice of blood doping, however, is impossible to detect unless someone witnesses the act or an athlete confesses.