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Systematic blood doping at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The U.S. cycling team's successes were coloured by revelations that riders had blood transfusions before their events, a practice known as blood-doping. The transfusions were to increase red blood cells in riders' blood. That would take more oxygen to their muscles.
Femke Van den Driessche, the first cyclist to be sanctioned for mechanical doping. Motor doping, or mechanical doping, in competitive cycling terminology, is a method of cheating by using a hidden motor to help propel a racing bicycle. The term is an analogy to chemical doping in sport, cheating by using performance-enhancing drugs.
At the time of the 1999 Tour de France there was no official test for EPO. In August 2005, 60 remaining antidoping samples from the 1998 Tour and 84 remaining antidoping samples given by riders during the 1999 Tour, were tested retrospectively for recombinant EPO by using three recently developed detection methods.
Cycling’s obsession with performance boosts is pushing the limits of fairness. When does the drive for victory sacrifice the integrity of the sport? Legal Enhancements Are Blurring the Line in ...
Earlier this week, the International Cycling Union asked teams and riders to avoid repeated carbon monoxide inhalation and called on WADA to take a position on the use of the gas, which is not on ...
George Hincapie, who tested negative twice, confessed nevertheless in his affidavit to the USADA that he used EPO and other doping substances throughout 1996–2006 (incl. blood doping throughout 2001–2005), and made this specific statement about his doping use in the 1998 Tour de France: "During the Tour that year I recall using testosterone ...
Blood doping at 2007 Tour de France, one-year ban. 4 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC +6' 17" Received a two-year ban for blood doping at the 2004 Olympics and the 2004 Vuelta a España. Implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case in 2006. Given an eight-year ban for failing a tests for DHEA in 2009. Admitted to doping during the 2012 USADA ...
Blood doping is the injection of red blood cells, related blood products that contain red blood cells, or artificial oxygen containers. This is done by extracting and storing one's own blood prior to an athletic competition, well in advance of the competition so that the body can replenish its natural levels of red blood cells, and subsequently injecting the stored blood immediately before ...