Erythropoietin

So yeah, the Sydney Marathon winner has now been provisionally suspended for doping.

So the women's winner, Perez Jepchichia, returned a sample that tested positive for EPO, which is basically just blood doping.

It's a drug that helps the body produce more red blood cells and it is illegal.

And I refer

oh it's like recent it looks

back at other things as well but like there's like a story in it I can't remember exactly what it is so apologies if it's wrong but like there's a trolley of samples of blood samples and they go past a wall and someone literally opens a hole in the wall takes out the blood samples and puts in good ones like through like a scooby-doo style oh my god being a thing it is honestly it's insane because the premise of it he starts the film is nothing to do with russian doping it starts with he's doing um halt route which is like the tour de france for amateurs and everyone's doped up to the eyeballs on it because it's amateur cycling but it's all these masters european people like trying to do as best they can So he does it and gets hammered and then he realises that everyone's basically doping.

So he decides to make a film where he takes EPO to show what the difference is.

And as he's looking into EPO and all this stuff and he's got this Russian doctor helping him, they basically uncover this doping scandal happening in Russia at that time.

You know what I'm saying? So then I beat out TJ.

And then I found out like a month or two later, he was on EPO.

And I'm just like, damn.

That's what I'm just like.

And I guess we've got to get into whether or not that should be the case, but let's have a look at her case first.

She was tested out of competition in Kenya in July, and And she's been found positive for EPO, which is actually quite unusual because EPO, I mean, it was the big drug, as I remember it, with cycling, with Lance Armstrong.

That's who I'd associate it with.

Is it unusual for EPO to be the drug of choice for a marathon runner?

Not to be the drug of choice, but to be the drug you get caught with, for sure.

Hmm.

And so you're stimulating the blood to, well, you're stimulating the body to make more red blood cells.

Be interesting to know if they were tracking and seeing anything slightly suspicious in the biological passport.

Our marathon.

So the women's leader, Jep Chir, the winner, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO.

Where's she from? She is from Kenya.

Oh.

um not good those those kenyans man they they keep juicing up and they keep getting caught so this was importantly to note an out of season test so it's sorry an out of competition sample i should say so it was collected before like her sydney win so not straight after um But it kind of more so highlights her use of it in training rather than actually for the race.

I'll just quickly, for those that don't know what EPO is, it is a natural glycoprotein hormone produced mainly by the kidneys that stimulates the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells in terms of athletic misuse and doping for performance enhancing athletes in endurance sports.

uh have misused synthetic epos to increase maximal aerobic capacity their vo2 max and stamina uh and yeah obviously it is strictly prohibited

yeah it essentially just like maximizes how much oxygen your body can carry and transport around hence energy hence then

Paris of Churchill.

The Athletics Integrity Unit has provisionally suspended the reigning world champion in the marathon after an out-of-competition test collected in Kenya returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO.

Not good.

EPO.

The sample was taken before her Sydney Marathon victory.

So if she is banned, which would be the next step, this is right now the provisional suspension.

I'm giving PTSD and flashbacks to 2010.

2014.

It's like, what do you have to do to the body? And I think that's the hard part.

It's also hard to think about how an athlete like Paris, how she informs training theory, when really what we're just seeing is, you know, a push from EPO and a push from doping.

And I think that just becomes so And this

other thing is this was EPO, which is really the worst.

Like often these doping bans are from things that like, oh, well, maybe I could understand a contamination theory here.

Like EPO is something that, you know, is I think injection.

So but it's not something that happens by accident unless there's just lab error, which doesn't happen with this stuff.

So super sad.

the other news that came out this morning as we're recording was the suspension of one of the most decorated marathoners in the history of the sport.

Paris, dip to your chair pot for EPO.

The way it was announced, it was a little confusing with the like reverse animal.

What did, what was the verbiage that they used for, uh, her positive test? It was like, her EPO in her system was like reverse something.

Reverse osmosis, double filtered.

Adverse analytical finding of EPO.

Adverse analytical finding for EPO.

What is an adverse analytical finding? I think that