"Caroline" wrote in message
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Some of these items come into serious question when illnesses are
involved. There is no doubt in my mind that Lance Armstrong was given EPOs
as part of his chemotherapy recovery. It is a standard safeguard for
saving the patient's life. But I have no way of knowing whether he was
given them when he was in competition, nor do I have any way of knowing
whether they gave him any advantage if he was, or if they just brought his
red cell count to "within normal limits." Only his doctors know for sure.
He may not even know.

Here's a clue - the phoney "blood test" that they supposedly ran in France
with Lance's blood that they claimed contained EPO showed a hematocrit of
38%.