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...EPO, OR ERYTHROPOIETIN EPO regulates red-cell production, and these cells deliver oxygen throughout the body. Developed to alleviate anemia in patients with kidney disease, synthetic EPO is a diet staple for many long-distance runners, swimmers and cyclists. The oxygen boost it provides can improve an athlete's performance in a 20-min. run by 30 sec.; in a marathon, by as much...
China has dumped almost 10% of its 311-member Olympic team, including some who failed a last-minute drug test. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed today that seven rowers--notably ace women's single sculler Zhang Xiuyun--have tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug EPO, and will not be competing in Sydney...
...Just last week, I.O.C. officials approved a blood and urine test that will be used for the first time at the Sydney Olympics to test for EPO, a substance that can improve endurance by up to 15%. China, fourth in the Olympic medal tally at Atlanta, is particularly strong in endurance sports like rowing, canoeing, long- distance running and swimming...
...Some sports analysts are speculating that the banned athletes may have tested positive for EPO earlier this year, and that China was hoping the substances would work their way through their bodies before the games started...
...that imperfect test for EPO--use it anyway. As gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter, now chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, says, knowing a test is looming will knock cheaters off stride. Shorter says that if there is no EPO test at Sydney, then every endurance or strength performance is suspect. He's right. And when sport becomes suspect--when no one believes in it--it's no longer worth watching...