Didn't she just get $60k for winning? I wonder whether Ethiopian microfinance banks grant loans for PEDs?
Didn't she just get $60k for winning? I wonder whether Ethiopian microfinance banks grant loans for PEDs?
Obviously $103 is too much for Dibaba, if she give paypal account I would donate for some EPO since African queen don't have enough juice. Where is Aden?
I only read the headline of this thread, but I'm guessing we will be seeing the standard reaction from Renato re East Africans being immune to effects of EPO
HHH Runner wrote:
The Guardian article on doping in Ethiopia, shows how easy it is to buy EPO, how bad internal testing is etc.
9 vial for $103 though. Bargain?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/04/doping-hotspot-ethiopia-drug-testing-epo
luv2run wrote:
How is it so cheap? Is it really EPO? What is the quality?
It's "cheap" because that's closer to the actual price. American meds are an absolute rip off due to insurance. Drs, dentists, optometrists, absolutely everything associated with health is far, far more expensive than in most countries around the world.
We have an utterly horrendous healthcare system. No one really seems to care, though, in the name of "capitalism".
We so desperately need a national health care system like most civilized countries that it isn't even funny. We won't get it, which is why I will retire abroad (and hopefully be there long before that point).
magic juice wrote:
Initially, you should have your hemoglobin/hematocrit levels checked every week. The key is not to get your hematocrit level over 55, otherwise you are substantially increasing the risk of stroke or a cardiovascular event.
Of course, in most of the world, you will need an EPO prescription and a doctor's supervision to do any of this. Not to to mention a TUE.
55? I don't think so, try 50. At 55 you'll be busted for sure. The difficulties of detecting EPO drove anti-doping officials to decree that they would disqualify any athlete found with a red-blood-cell concentration—known as the hematocrit level—of more than 50 percent. (The hematocrit level for an ordinary, active person is between 34 and 46 percent.) Of course, the 50 percent mark only gave athletes a defined limit. You could use EPO to jack up your levels higher than that while training, and as long as you competed with a level of 49.9 percent, you'd be fine.(very suspicious, yet legal)
Good luck with that, my wife had an uncle that did that. Died in Costa Rica in his mid 60s of something that was easily treated here.
So if WADA starts cracking down on Ethiopia, how long is it until teams start setting up training camps in Afghanistan or Pakistan to avoid testing?
Or maybe ISIS will field a team of ex-Kenyans and Ethios?
comedyrelief wrote:
So if WADA starts cracking down on Ethiopia, how long is it until teams start setting up training camps in Afghanistan or Pakistan to avoid testing?