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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.
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"...the British rider's (Wiggins 2009) values well below the parameters potentially indicative of any artificial performance-enhancing methods."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-values-point-to-cleaner-peloton/
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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.