Vainio was caught. Cova?
Vainio was caught. Cova?
Cova admitted blood doping. Not illegal at the time. The answer to your question is "no" unfortunately.
Cova looks like a badass.
the moustache was killer
He looked a bit like Freddy Mercury.
alanson wrote:
Cova admitted blood doping. Not illegal at the time. The answer to your question is "no" unfortunately.
Was blood-doping all Cova did? Martti Vainio, who finished 2nd in this race was of course disqualified when he tested positive for Primobolan. He tested positive only because he was stupid or careless--he had used this anabolic steroid earlier in the year; when he withdrew blood to refrigerate for blood-doping purposes well in advance of the LA Olympics, the blood still contained small amounts of Primobolan; when he re-infused the blood before the 10,000, the predictable happened...