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Haematocrit is a terrible indicator of doping though. It varies in endurance athletes from something around 40 to as high as the low 50s (Charly Wegalius had a normal trained haematocrit of about 52, so got busted by the UCI 50 limit). Haematocrit on its own doesn't give you anything like the whole picture.
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They say "blood values" but I still haven't worked out what's being measured. At least if it was Hematocrit we could tell from the numbers being 50ish.
Is this a metric which can be microdosed up to threshold a LA Hematocrit? If so, insufficient datapoints are being discussed. I haven't seen an annotated graph yet.