According to reports that I have read, the IOC will publish the names of all
athletes who test positive to the EPO blood test, after the games are over.
It is likely that some athletes are skipping the games because they don't
want their names published.
Ed Prytherch
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From: Bryan Beel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 18, 2000 1:21 PM
Subject: t-and-f: 1) CBC 2) drugs
>
>2) Drugs. I can see where the "rash" of withdrawals from the Games makes
>some people think more athletes are on drugs (ie. Jacobs, Hissou, etc etc)
>but it seems like there's one logical inconsistency in all the
>mud-slinging. Unless I'm really missing something, it seems that NONE of
>the mentioned athletes would TEST POSITIVE unless they were total morons.
>Nandrolone: who in their right mind would use this with all the current
>testing? No one. HGH: can't test for it. EPO: can't test positive
>unless you've used the "juice" in the last three days. Isn't that what
>everyone was howling about with the crappy new IOC test, that no one would
>test positive because the urine test had such low power? So why would
>Jacobs withdraw unless she really was sick? She's sure as hell not going
>to test positive for EPO unless she's got some astoundingly bad trainers.
>Same goes for everyone else. And it seems, if they used EPO this well to
>get here, they probably are smart enough to stop using it at least 3 days
>before they come to Sydney, don't you think?
>
