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General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: rdaviesb on 31 May, 2010, 09:12:40 pm

Title: Valverde banned
Post by: rdaviesb on 31 May, 2010, 09:12:40 pm

...from 1/1/2010. Looks like a DNA match to a bag of blood containing EPO has finally been recognised as bang to rights evidence.

Good.

Title: Re: Valverde banned
Post by: Biff on 31 May, 2010, 09:55:35 pm

About fkg time!  Odds on Contador riding for C d 'E next year?

Title: Re: Valverde banned
Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2010, 09:57:42 pm

So this was blood doping using EPO to boost red blood cells before taking the blood?

If so, then it seems a bit strange (from the POV of avoiding a positive doping test) since when you reinject the blood, you'd test positive for EPO, wouldn't you?

Title: Re: Valverde banned
Post by: rdaviesb on 31 May, 2010, 10:01:17 pm

Strange but might be true....

Taken from cyclingnews.com

The UCI requested in August, 2007 that the RFEC open disciplinary hearings against Valverde when the rider was linked to a bag of blood labeled '18' which also contained the banned blood booster EPO.

Title: Re: Valverde banned
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 May, 2010, 10:02:23 pm

Normally EPO doesn't hang around in the body for long, which is why the test is for a high haemocrit rather than EPO itself.  The bag of blood must have been taken too soon after the dose of EPO.

Title: Re: Valverde banned
Post by: GruB on 01 June, 2010, 12:04:03 am

Yippee, the worst kept secret in cycling is finally resolved.
Until the appeal that is.  ::-)