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People please stop saying that these boxers are using HGH. They probably aren't because it would make you bigger. But EPO also known as Erythropoietin, can make a boxers endurance soar above the average mans endurance. I gathered some information on EPO for the people who aren't familiar with the Performance enhancing drug.
EPO
Erythropoietin (EPO) is an artificial hormone that allows the blood to carry more oxygen, thus boosting endurance. It is consider a method of blood doping which can increase the volume of blood which contains red blood cells. This will in turn increase an athletes VO2 max (aerobic capacity) allowing more oxygen to be transported to the muscles.
There are currently two tests for EPO. A urine test and a blood test. According to Dr. Don Catlin Who headed the Drug testing Lab for the Salt lake olympics, "[T]o be convicted of an EPO offense athletes must test positive for EPO with the urine EPO test [which] it is a direct test that detects the actual presence of recombinant EPO" There is also a blood test which tells "the testers that the athlete has an unusual blood profile that warrants further investigation." Prompting a Urine test. The test is only effective for use going back about a week.
Shane Mosley used EPO
In the testimony, recorded on Dec. 11, 2003, at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Mosley also said that BALCO founder Victor Conte explained in detail how the drug was used and what its effects would be, including the potential harmful effects of the highly-regulated endurance booster. Mosley has admitted publicly and under oath that he used steroids and EPO, but has denied knowing that the drugs were banned or illegal.
When asked if he had gotten EPO from Conte, Mosley replied: “Yes, the hematocrit.”
“And that’s something you actually inject into yourself?” he was asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow.
“I think it’s right by your stomach, yes,” Mosley said, indicating where the drug is often injected.
Conte has said he instructed Mosley on techniques for drawing EPO from a bottle with a syringe and injecting it in each side of the belly button in what is known as “double-saturation” injections.
At one point in the questioning, Nedrow produced a calendar seized from the BALCO lab showing Mosley used a potent cocktail of steroids and EPO right up until a few days before his victorious fight with De La Hoya on Sept. 13, 2003. The calendars denote which days Mosley was supposed to take which substances
PAUSE: let's get this straight... He was using a potent "COCKTAIL" of drugs and EPO?!?!?! Hmmm, at the time that Mosley was on steroids, Conte was his strength and conditioning coach... I can think of another strength and conditioning coach who likes to give his fighters these mystery COCKTAILS/SHAKES. Isn't his name Alex Ariza? Hmmmmm. EPO can increase your endurance therefore rendering someone to be able to throw over a thousand punches in a fight huh??? We'll never know until Boxing steps its drug testing program up.
EPO
Erythropoietin (EPO) is an artificial hormone that allows the blood to carry more oxygen, thus boosting endurance. It is consider a method of blood doping which can increase the volume of blood which contains red blood cells. This will in turn increase an athletes VO2 max (aerobic capacity) allowing more oxygen to be transported to the muscles.
There are currently two tests for EPO. A urine test and a blood test. According to Dr. Don Catlin Who headed the Drug testing Lab for the Salt lake olympics, "[T]o be convicted of an EPO offense athletes must test positive for EPO with the urine EPO test [which] it is a direct test that detects the actual presence of recombinant EPO" There is also a blood test which tells "the testers that the athlete has an unusual blood profile that warrants further investigation." Prompting a Urine test. The test is only effective for use going back about a week.
Shane Mosley used EPO
In the testimony, recorded on Dec. 11, 2003, at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Mosley also said that BALCO founder Victor Conte explained in detail how the drug was used and what its effects would be, including the potential harmful effects of the highly-regulated endurance booster. Mosley has admitted publicly and under oath that he used steroids and EPO, but has denied knowing that the drugs were banned or illegal.
When asked if he had gotten EPO from Conte, Mosley replied: “Yes, the hematocrit.”
“And that’s something you actually inject into yourself?” he was asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow.
“I think it’s right by your stomach, yes,” Mosley said, indicating where the drug is often injected.
Conte has said he instructed Mosley on techniques for drawing EPO from a bottle with a syringe and injecting it in each side of the belly button in what is known as “double-saturation” injections.
At one point in the questioning, Nedrow produced a calendar seized from the BALCO lab showing Mosley used a potent cocktail of steroids and EPO right up until a few days before his victorious fight with De La Hoya on Sept. 13, 2003. The calendars denote which days Mosley was supposed to take which substances
PAUSE: let's get this straight... He was using a potent "COCKTAIL" of drugs and EPO?!?!?! Hmmm, at the time that Mosley was on steroids, Conte was his strength and conditioning coach... I can think of another strength and conditioning coach who likes to give his fighters these mystery COCKTAILS/SHAKES. Isn't his name Alex Ariza? Hmmmmm. EPO can increase your endurance therefore rendering someone to be able to throw over a thousand punches in a fight huh??? We'll never know until Boxing steps its drug testing program up.
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