Word: darbopoeitin
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...better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created to evade detection. But the agency has started to close the gap. At the 2002 Winter Games, WADA tested the arriving athletes and surprised them with a more sophisticated test to detect darbopoeitin, a bioengineered hormone that dopes blood by increasing its oxygen content. On the basis of those results, the I.O.C. stripped three athletes of their eight medals...
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