Renato Canova wrote:
I want to explain that ALL THESE STUDIES HAVE NOTHING OF SCIENTIFIC when we look at top athletes. Everybody knows EPO can help the transportation of Oxygen. This transportation of Oxygen can help athletes in better training, and training is what can change our engine.
But every study is absolutely generical when the researchers speak about "training".
In the case of Yesterday, there were 4 groups : one without EPO and training, one without EPO with training, one with EPO without training, one with EPO and training.
What does training mean ? Running 30' easy is training for somebody sedentary till the previous day, is like sleeping for a real athlete. Which level of training there is in these researches ? Which level of athletes is under control ? I remember that, some year ago, there was a research about Marathon runners, considering in the Group of High Level athletes running between 2:20 and 2:50.
If this can be statistical valid in a Marathon like NY (if you want to consider "athletes" all the participants, also who finishes in 7 hours), because this involves the top 300 athletes in a total number of 45,000 (so is the 0,66% of runners), under a physiological point of view is a complete BS, when in athletics we consider two different levels of athletes a difference of 2:00 (for example, 2:05 with 2:07).
The reality is that there are many studies on the effect of doping for normal people and/or athletes of medium level, but no studies about the effect on top athletes. And, what is worse, there are NO STUDIES ABOUT THE EFFECT OF TRAINING.
Nobody can speak about the effects of doping, without knowing the REAL effects of a top training plan on the best athletes. It's time to study what we go to change with modern training for endurance in the physiology of the athletes. But, of course, this level of training (both as volume and quality, especially THE VOLUME OF QUALITY) can be applied to top athletes only, athletes of top quality, but also with organization of their life looking essentially at the best athletics results.
There is a famous study by Conconi he presented in Lillehammer in 1993 in which he claimed to have used EPO on amateur sportsmen, but it was later discovered that they were 22 Italian professional athletes (e.g. Bugno, Chiappucci, Da Milano, Albarello, Emma Scaunich etc…). I can’t find the results but that one is interesting to see the effects of doping on professional athlete (even though there are few runners.)