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STEROID NATION: EPO ANSWERS (AND MORE QUESTIONS)

By Shaun Assael

Friday, June 27, 2008

A member of the US Olympic Committee whistled yesterday when he read a new report from Denmark about the staggering power of Erythropoietin, a.k.a. EPO. You might say, he was whistling past the graveyard. EPO gets less publicity than human growth hormone, but it's everywhere, ghost-like in its invisibility. Marion Jones used it for years without flunking a drug test, as did Olympic gold medal sprinter Andrew Pettigrew. Four-time All-Pro lineman Dana Stubblefield got away with injecting it u ...

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