Blood doping in peloton still exists but is different than in 90s. The Athlete Biological Passport become a tool used to calibrate doping strategy by teams. Blood manipulation methods are more sophisticated as the bio-markers used in ABP can detect anomalies in athlete’s blood profile.
This video is based on publications below although presents personal opinion on several subjects.
Publications:
ABP: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/17807/6/jhse_Vol_VI_N_II_205-217.pdf
Carsten Lundby – Science of blood doping detection: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372716/
WADA note about removing default access to ABP profile for an athlete (October 2021): https://adams-help.wada-ama.org/hc/en-us/articles/4407838190738-Why-has-athlete-access-to-ABP-blood-data-been-removed-
Factors confounding ABP: https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-021-00356-0
Micro-dosing and ABP: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49851154_Current_markers_of_the_Athlete_Blood_Passport_do_not_flag_microdose_EPO_doping
EPO Micro-dosing and ABP: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6915012_The_effects_of_microdose_recombinant_human_erythropoietin_regimens_in_athletes
Baesian inference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
Other sources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51171787_Current_limitations_of_the_Athlete’s_Biological_Passport_use_in_sports/link/54c2f0380cf219bbe4e9e834/download
https://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/french-documentary-alleges-that-micro-doping-can-beat-abp/
https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/are-micro-dosing-riders-poking-holes-in-biological-passport/
https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/tour-de-france-power-analysis-tadej-pogacars-record-breaking-ascent-of-the-col-de-peyresourde/
https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/biological-passport-have-dopers-found-ways-to-beat-it/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_passport
https://www.raeng.org.uk/RAE/media/Events/Documents/Sports-Engineering-Chris-Cooper.pdf
23 Comments
The most likely strategy they use nowadays is transfusing small amounts of blood more often so they never go out of range
hippa laws
I doped using 2 x. 7ml shots of test per week. 8 weeks on 8 weeks off. In combination with hard work and diet.. What a crazy difference. And That was just one drug and tiny amount. My testosterone levels read high normal by my local GP and within parameters of the rules so I still raced.
Hi! Thx so much for explaining, what is frustrating to see 8a that everybody buys in and accepts that the current performances outplay the doping high times performances
Shows me i can be proud of of my 270 watts power for one hour, clean😅
Whos wayching after Vingegaard TdF time trial 23" 😅
all these efforts to fight doping and now they allow trans women to compete against biological women
Doping might be like war.
Someone once said that we will always have war, until the majority think that war is disgusting. Until regarded as disgusting, war will go on
Perhaps same doping.
I am disgusted w doping. I hope more join in this disgust
Doping will only be stopped by the cyclists. There has to grow a general feeling of disgust for doping.
In a way it’s akin to racism/stopping racism. Blacks will never stop racism. Not by their activism and opposition. Those who will be the ones that can and must stop racism against blacks are white people. Once the big majority of white people become intolerant of racism, racism will stop.
We need leaders, lecturers, classes, meetings, conventions of drugs in sports and why doping is anti-athlete, is destructive of athletes and what they do, and is disgusting
Ok. How do they dope at Jumbo Visma, that others don't do similarly yet? Don't tell me it was a strategy and tactics all alone. It might have been some rocket fuel juice of a new era, that is yet to be undisclosed.
If you want to setup proper anti doping, they need to have a mandatory clean retreat for x amount of time to develop a baseline of a rider's bio passport. Is this even possible?
There is widespread doping and/or ped use in every sport at the top levels.
I could really care less if they dope. I suspect it is healthier than if they didn't.
I don't need sporting heroes.
How do they do it?
Mitochondria can be genetically altered to have them feed off fat-based ketones, leading to much smaller, ketone-based rations capable of maintaining an athlete's peak performance for days at a time. Altered Mitochondria can better utilise ketones in order to rapidly restore ATP when cells deplete to ADP and AMP states during sustained intense exercise. Not a climber or a sprinter? No worries! It's possible to trigger changes to core cellular structures (aka "legal gene doping") by modifying fast/slow twitch fibre ratios. It's even possible to increase natural EPO production. Read Iñigo San Millán's literature, it explains it all in theory.
Extras:
Stem cell therapy.
Muscle relaxants.
Massage.
Ice baths.
IV nutrient/hydration drips.
Cutting edge supplements.
All of the aforementioned is "legal" and produces performances in excess of the Lance effect. Science has progressed significantly since the EPO days.
P.S. People don't want to believe that their champions are doping and cycling IS too big to fail.
P.P.S. Scientists are also hunting genetic freaks so that they already start with a performance monster. Then it's a case of getting their numbers up as high as possible naturally and then using new scientific techniques to further improve and then maintain those numbers. The "10,000 hour athlete" model is out the window. It's quite reminiscent of horse and greyhound racing only the animals happen to be cyclists.
Why making such a video, if you are not able to speak proper English?
There is several methods of testing for microdosing 100% specificity within 12 hours 30 % after 72 hours meaning if you microdose there is 30% chance you will be positive after 72 hours and 100% after 12 hours. I dont know where you have your data from I have this from studies and blindtests where dopers were not known before hand.
So this microdosing is not true you cant microdose any form of EPO without being under major risk of getting discovered. Ownblood transfusion is the only possible way to dope. Which can also be detected or under suspicion with passport tests.
Cycling tests way more out of competition than any other sport.
There is inderect test for own blood transfusions.
You can be tested 100 times a day if you know in advance, that you´re ahead of the game. That doesn´t mean that you are clean or a good sportsman in it´s basic sense. That doesn´t mean you´re a honest man. Breaking records from doped cheaters and claiming that happened clean is like pissing in somebodys face and laughing about their stupidity! Today they´re lying more than ever, THIS is what it is. They´re giving the typical answers they gave also back in the 80´s, 90´s and 00´s… It is a billion dollar machine, doping is and will always be a part of this sport. Well, doping… It is still sport then right? It enhances the good thing which sport is meant to be. Competing fair, right…?!
Solution:
No more expensive doping controls and a such expensive system – let them take whatever they want so that the whole world could see the obvious thing – elite sport is ruled by people who deciding voluntarely to become cheating mutants, unscrupulous and ready take even the risk of dying for a medal, it is sure not ruled by fair sportsmen.
0:32 ‚credablity‘ 😂😂😂
Couldn't understand the commentator. Accent too thick.
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Great video
Any decent sized gym has a culture and thats just being a gym bunny.
Once access and money becomes involved, you don't want to lose that.
The modern day guys are doped up to. Just better and better drugs and better methods.