...reviewed a combined blood-urine test for EPO that was developed by Australian and French...endurance-boosting hormone erythropoietin. "EPO has been the worst of the undetectable drugs...Institute of Sport. "Now those who cheat with EPO know that they should stop, or not come...
...extra out of the athletes' bodies involves EPO and human growth hormone, which are extremely difficult to detect. EPO stimulates bone marrow to grow red blood...1991 circumstantial evidence implicated EPO in the deaths of 18 cyclists in Europe...
...after testing positive for the banned drug EPO but was reinstated because testing procedures...indicate possible use of the banned hormone EPO, according to Arne Ljungqvist, a vice...there are other causes or if the cause was EPO, which is taken to boost endurance. Tests...
...test for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO. If the second test confirms the positive...inconclusive or does not point to the presence of EPO, she could be allowed to compete in the...won't run." Yegorova denied she had taken EPO in an interview with the Russian newspaper...
...source of frustration is the frenzy over his association with an Italian doctor whose name has been linked to the doping agent EPO. Since the connection was reported in British, Italian and French newspapers over the weekend, it has been the talk of the...
...expected changes to the competition programs and for not being quick enough to institute blood testing for the endurance-boosting EPO, beat Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband for gold. Later, in one of the most bizarre officiating decisions at a major...
...competitor tested positive for the banned hormone EPO, but track and field's international...Yegorova, who tested positive for traces of EPO at a meet in Paris last month and won commutation...indicate the use of endurance-boosting EPO. Secondary testing cleared all but one...
...the IOC said there was just a 50-50 chance that a test for the banned performance-enhancing drug erythropoietin, known as EPO, would be approved in time for the Sydney Games. Jacques Rogge, vice chairman of the IOC medical commission, said the test...
...drug tests before the Sydney Games, and assess the continuing research into developing a reliable test for the banned hormone EPO. --Organizers of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City will report to the IOC board by video conference Wednesday...
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