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Old May 13th, 2008
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blood doping in freediving

I have been doing recent research on blood doping for other sports and was wondering if anyone has heard of it ever happening in free diving competitions? for those who don't know what it is it's when you take blood from your self months before a comp, your body then regenerates the amount of blood you took so that you continue to function. but when there are only a few weeks until competition the cheater will inject the blood that he took out of himself months ago. this gives him a major benefit as it means there are more blood cells that can be oxygenated and so can perform at a higher level of performance for longer. so if you've heard of anyone disgracing freediving by doing this i'd be interested to hear. and would also like to know what sort of drugs tests competitors have to do before a comp.
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