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Probably the entire peloton was -- if so, can it still be considered cheating? Of course, not everybody used EPO and not everybody who did used as much as Riis
by peterfirefly 3y ago
Probably the entire peloton was -- if so, can it still be considered cheating?
Of course, not everybody used EPO and not everybody who did used as much as Riis, Ullrich, Pantani, Virenque, Armstrong, Zabel, Hamburger... Blood doping existed long before EPO. Amphetamines (and strychnine!) were used long before blood doping. Induráin almost certainly used either EPO or blood doping.
EPO and blood doping can still be used (and are likely still used) but noone can push it to the dangerous extremes of the 90's. That will be caught (because such hematocrit values aren't allowed anymore -- and it's easy to test for).