blood doping

[ bluhd doh-ping ]

noun

1. 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.

blood doping

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood doping¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

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.

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I used the logic that his blood doping was irrelevant because the sport of competitive cycling was rife with it.

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If Armstrong was in fact blood doping, you can be sure that so were his teammates.

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