People have been asking me about Riccardo Ricco, the Italian cyclist who was thrown out of the Tour de France for testing positive for the hormone erythropoietin (Epo), so I want to do a little Q&A about Epo detection and...
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Posted on July 24, 2008 9:56 AM • 3 Comments •
After the whole Floyd Landis thing, I wrote a long post about the science of detecting steroid abuse. The primary test uses something called the T/E ratio to determine whether the athlete has injected steroids. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)...
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Posted on May 1, 2008 3:25 PM • 1 Comments •
As some of you may have noticed, I have been keeping up with the science of Floyd Landis's failed drug test in a rather long post here. In the post, I mentioned that there is another test besides the Testosterone...
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Posted on August 1, 2006 4:50 PM • 21 Comments •
Floyd Landis, most recent winner of the Tour de France, has tested positive for testosterone use:...
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Posted on July 27, 2006 11:39 PM • 40 Comments •