Bid to detect doping
NZPA-Reuter Florence A Swedish scientist attending an international symposium on doping in sport yesterday put forward what he said was a foolproof method to ascertain whether athletes had undergone blood transfusions to improve their performances.
Professor Bo Berglund, of Stockholm’s Carolinska Institute, said blood transfusions were a more widespread means of doping than the use of anabolic steroids because no-one had yet come up with an accurate test.
An athlete taking a transfusion before a marathon, for example, could improve his performance by up to two minutes over a competitor running without the aid of a transfusion, Professor Berglund told the symposium in Florence.
He said that transfusions raised the amount of oxygen-boosting haemoglobin in the blood to more than 10 per cent. Professor Berglund said? that one blood sample should be taken front athletes immediately after a race and another after 10 days. He described a test involving measuring the concentration of haemoglobin against other particles in the blood
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