"Anton Berlin" wrote in message
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: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004...cling.features
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: Pantani's body had grown so dependent on these injections that it
: could no longer produce red blood cells.
:
: On his arrival at Turin's Centro Traumatologico Ortopedico at 3.20pm,
: doctors were startled to discover blood values that were abnormal,
: almost bizar his haematocrit, or red cell count, was 60 per cent
: (50 per cent is high); his haemoglobin was 20.8g per 100ml (18g is
: noteworthy). These values then plummeted: on 25 October, with 15.9 per
: cent haematocrit and 5.8g haemoglobin, it took a transfusion to save
: his life.
:
: After which the anaemia miraculously cleared. Someone, it seemed, had
: injected Pantani with the genetically engineered blood-booster
: erythropoietin, known in sport as the doping agent EPO. At the age of
: just 25, Pantani's body had grown so dependent on these injections
: that it could no longer produce red blood cells.



Dumbass -

And yet you claim that drugs smooth out performance, eliminating bad days.

thanks,

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