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Mafia doping?
 

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6884
Location: Maine

12/5/19 8:13 AM

Mafia doping?

Not sure what this means exactly, but I guess doping controversies are still with us:

https://www.velonews.com/2019/12/news/teams-warn-of-mafia-doping-rings-want-more-blood-tests_503015

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven

12/5/19 12:50 PM

I confess after reading the article that I don't understand what the term means.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

12/5/19 1:29 PM

I got a vague ambiguity from the article. Some googling did not help. More to come perhaps?

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6884
Location: Maine

12/5/19 3:06 PM

Mafiosi

This has a little background:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aderlass

I think “mafia” is just used generically to indicate a rogue operation ouitside the team structure. Maybe the athletes just sign up and pay independently...or not.... Jes’ good ol-fashioned blood dopin’....

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

12/5/19 5:22 PM

"suspected athletes could be escaping detection because they are transfusing blood in the morning of a race and extracting blood directly following the race."

why directly following/after I wonder...

And came across this:

AICAR/GW1516, which is also known as GW501516 and marketed as Endurobol.

Google it if this is a rabbit hole you'd like to peek into.

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
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Location: Nashua, NH

12/7/19 10:58 AM

UGH!

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