blood doping
a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin or transfused with blood, thereby increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity and boosting athletic performance.
Origin of blood doping
1- Also called blood pack·ing, blood boost·ing.
Words Nearby blood doping
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How to use blood doping in a sentence
He admitted that he cheated in each and every one of his Tour de France wins by blood doping and the use of EPO and testosterone.
I used the logic that his blood doping was irrelevant because the sport of competitive cycling was rife with it.
I Was Deluded to Believe Lance Armstrong When He Denied Doping | Buzz Bissinger | January 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf Armstrong was in fact blood doping, you can be sure that so were his teammates.
British Dictionary definitions for blood doping
the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
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