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Posts Tagged ‘EPO’


Olympic Athletes Will Have Blood Samples Retested for Steroids

By on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | No Comments

The IOC has announced that it is going to retest all of the samples collected from the Olympic games in the wake of the positive tests found by the Tour de France for the latest version of EPO, Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator. CERA is a stamina boosting drug which was not detectable until recently. It [...]

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Last Week Last Year: Complete Running and Athletes Against Doping

By on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 | No Comments

Last weekend it was too hot to use the computer and I was otherwise occupied, so I never summed up the articles from the previous year. The Complete Running Network was relaunched. My biggest complaint with my first impressions was that they had gotten rid of the running blog aggregater service, but that service returned [...]

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NFL improves steroids testing

By on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 | No Comments

The NFL and the NFL Players Association have reached an agreement earlier today to improve testing for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. The modifications include a 40 percent increase in the number of players randomly tested each week during the preseason, regular season and post-season from seven to 10 per team. Last year, the [...]

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This Week Last Year: Drugs, Bombs, and World Records

By on Saturday, August 26th, 2006 | No Comments

This week last year was actually fairly eventful. One of my most popular articles about Lance Armstrong were published this week last year after he had to deny more doping charges (which also had a follow up article a few days later.) I also wrote a detailed article about what EPO is. Eric Rudolph was [...]

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Lance Armstrong accused (again) of doping

By on Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | No Comments

One again, Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping. I am starting to get tired of reading about it, too… This time, Le Monde cycling magazine has reported leaked court testimony alleging that Lance Armstrong admitted to his doctors while he was going through chemotherapy in 1996 that he used EPO. The fun part of [...]

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Bode Miller supports EPO in competitive skiing

By on Friday, October 14th, 2005 | 1 Comment

Bode Miller came out publicly supporting EPO on Wednesday, according to Ski Racing Magazine. “I’m surprised it’s illegal,” Miller said, “because in our sport, it would be pretty minimal health risks, and it would actually make it safer for the athletes, because you’d have less chance of making a mistake at the bottom and killing [...]

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What is EPO?

By on Friday, August 26th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Earlier this week I wrote about Lance Armstrong being accused of cheating by using the banned substance EPO during his 1999 Tour de France win. Le Ann Welty commented on EPO by describing what it was:

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