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No cheating in the blood test

By Christie Aschwanden

2 October 2004

SPORTS cheats beware – if you thought your chosen method of blood doping was undetectable, think again.

That’s the message sports officials are promoting after US cyclist Tyler Hamilton was nailed by a surprise test for a previously untraceable method of blood doping during the Tour of Spain race last week.

Hamilton, who won a gold medal at the Athens Olympics in August, denies any wrongdoing, and his backers are questioning the validity of the new test. But experts contacted by Âé¶¹´«Ã½ believe the science is watertight.

In endurance sports like cycling, ways of boosting the blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity can…

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