I think its just jumping to the conclusion that the high haemoglobin
was due to blood doping, which is a fairly reasonable assumption to make.

Its only a short ban because they can't prove that blood doping was
undertaken, but its incredibly unlikely that anyone would have that
high a concentration legitimately.

Anyone with better knowledge of these things, feel free to contradict me.

Mike

--- In nordicscotland@..., "Peter Thorn" <peter@...> wrote:
>
> I was a bit confused by the article as it says that Evi Sachenbacher
> was caught for doping at the Turin Olympics. I just thought she was one
> of several athletes given s short 5 day ban because their hemoglobin
> levels were too high. I haven't heard that she was caught doping since
> then. However if what the article says is true then it casts a big
> cloud over the whole German team. Like you I hope it isn't true.
>
> I never heard the outcome of what happened to the Austria team after
> they got raided by the italian police at Turin. My sources say their
> team quarters resembled a clinical laboratory.
>
> All very sad, it is the sort of thing that will drive people away from
> sport if they believe that most athletes are cheating.
>
> Peter.
>