Lagat-holy shit!

[michael lewis]

Re: Lagat-holy shit!

"One who truely believes, has faith and is determined and confident will always have the advantage over those who sell their souls to performance enhancing drugs. For when it gets tough and all is on the line in fierce battle the one's who took drugs faith will falter and they will fail because they are not just, they are corrupt in their soul and the true warrior, the one who believes and has heart, will prevail for his faith in the Lord will have made him strong."

Right. And that's why godless drugged-up communist East Germany clobbered the rest of the world for nearly 2 decades.

[Guest]

Re: Lagat-holy shit!

I am posing this question to someone who might truly know a thing or two about the whole EPO thing and about how the body works it general. Someone who knows Bernard Lagat fairly well has suggested to me that there could actually have been a mistake and that they believe he could be innocent. There reason for thinking is as follows: Supposedly if you go and train at very high altitude, say 10,000 feet, it will raise the number of your red blood cells dramatically. If you were to be tested soon after you came back from training at high altitude, this would make it look like you were doping when in fact you weren't.

I don't know if I explained this correctly or if it makes any sense but my question is is there any way that there could be any truth to this, or something like it?

[Guest]

Re: Lagat-holy shit!

If that was the case wouldn't they all test positive? The majority train at altitude.

[Guest]

Re: Lagat-holy shit!

They're not measuring hematocrit (concentration of red cells); they're measuring chemical changes in the blood caused only by introduction of exogenous substance.

[Guest]

Re: Lagat-holy shit!

So does that mean that there is absolutely no way to test positive for this stuff unless you haved doped yourself?

[Guest]

Re: Confirmation?

>http://www.asda.org.au/media/fact_sheets/repoxygen
>htm

It seems repoxygen is not a good choice
>for doping.

Same side effects as EPO. Easily countered.

[Guest]

Re: Confirmation?

i am sure he is innocent, someone must have spiked his toothpaste.