Re: So 3 USPS used EPO in 1999 TdF.



mrsixtypercent wrote:

So the natural average hematocit is low 40's yet here we have a whole
team close to 50 percent - what a coincidence!.

If the "average" for the population is low 40's, it can be expected that top aerobic atheletes are top because of better physiology, ie higher hematocrit.

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