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...BLOOD DOPING In 1972 Dr. Bjorn Ekblom of Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports drew a quart of blood from each of four athletes, removed the red cells and put them in cold storage. He reinfused the cells a month later and found that his subjects' increased oxygen-carrying capacity allowed them to run as much as 25% longer on a treadmill before reaching exhaustion. Blood doping was born. In 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team coach Eddie Borysewicz set up a back-alley clinic in a Los Angeles motel room. Four of the seven athletes who doped won medals...
...will get $1.6 billion worth of Franklin National's assets. Overnight, EA deposits in the U.S. jumped from $480 million to $1.9 billion. Moreover, it will have its pick of the bank's branch offices and 2,800 employees. Chairman Harry E. Ekblom, 46, a Brooklyn-born lawyer and onetime senior vice president in charge of European operations for Chase Manhattan Bank, promptly made a helicopter visit to Franklin National's Long Island branches. Later, he announced that EA would automatically pick up all Franklin National's consumer installment loans...
...Ekblom's method is based on a well-established physiological fact: muscles under stress need more oxygen than those that are not. Athletes' muscles become fatigued when they are starved for oxygen. To overcome this hunger, Ekblom first removed a total of 1,200 cc. (slightly more than a quart) of blood from each of four students in three separate bleedings four days apart, then kept the blood in cold storage. The bleedings temporarily reduced the subjects' red-cell count, decreasing their oxygen-carrying capacity and thus their endurance by about 30%. But their bodies soon replaced...
...result of the reinfusion was a marked increase in each student's redcell count-and a 25% increase in his endurance. Prior to the bleedings, Ekblom had each one run on a treadmill to determine his normal endurance; the average time from the start of the exercise to exhaustion was 5.73 min. On the day after the infusions, it rose to 7.17 min. Because the body quickly passes off excess red cells, the pickup was not permanent; within 14 days of the infusions, all students' performances returned to prebleeding levels. So far, no adverse side effects have been...
Despite uncertainty about whether Ekblom's technique violates existing athletic regulations, a number of U.S. coaches have already expressed interest...