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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.
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 ...
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.
Cycling Erythropoietin (EPO) [33] Orlando Scandrick United States American football Amphetamines (MDMA) [34] Michele Scarponi Italy Cycling Operación Puerto doping case [35] Viktors Ščerbatihs Latvia: Weightlifting Anabolic steroids [36] (in Latvian) Uliana Schcherbo Ukraine: Weightlifting Stanozolol [6] Fränk Schleck Luxembourg: Cycling ...
People entered in this category have either: Been suspended by a sporting body (the UCI, the IOC, or one of their national federations) for illegal performance-enhancing drug use.
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or have been suspended by a sports governing body for failure to submit to mandatory drug testing.
Cycling Erythropoietin (EPO) (self-admitted) [56] Barry Bonds United States Baseball Amphetamines (first offender; not suspended per Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement) [57] Stephan Bonnar United States Mixed martial arts Boldenone [58] Michael Boogerd Netherlands: Cycling Blood doping, cortisone, EPO, [59] Tom Boonen Belgium ...
Cycling (track) 1998 2006 2007 Norandrosterone Testosterone (May), hCG (June) Refusal to submit to doping control 6 months 8 years Life ban [29] [30] [31] Muhammad Al-Ghaferi United Arab Emirates: Swimming Methylhexaneamine [22] Dilsher Ali Pakistan: Cycling Nandrolone [23] Hram Ali Iraq: Weightlifting Metandienone [5] Javed Ali Pakistan ...