[OT] - Tour de France 2006

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ToddT said:
the athlete at some point prior to the event he's going to use this trick for, has his own blood drawn, and stored. then when the day arrives will have (i think primaryly the red blood cells) has the blood place back into his blood stream, resulting in a boosted oxygen carrying capacity. the only real give away would be his red blood cell count, just prior to the event and for a short period of time after.

This is called autologous blood doping.

that said wasn't there another big scandle around 2000? (it was in france)

1998, a team car was stopped and it was full of various injectible drugs, needles, etc. That was the last huge shakeup.