You are reading a single comment by @bashthebox and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Is there any evidentiary basis for this supposition? As I understand it, there is no reason for elite athletes to have OFF-scores that are close to the boundaries, though of course some will, even to the point of generating false positives.
-
Pretty much any clean top class athlete will have borderline blood values anyway, due to being the best.
I don't think this is true.
The really talented cyclists have it all going on... and naturally low haematocrit. That way they fucking fly once they've bumped it up to 49%
:)
deleted
miro_o
@bashthebox
Pretty much any clean top class athlete will have borderline blood values anyway, due to being the best. It makes it really, really hard to distinguish between the people with ultra exceptional physiology, and the chemically enhanced lesser athletes.