blood doping
noun
: a technique for temporarily improving athletic performance in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells from blood previously withdrawn from an athlete are reinjected just before an event
called also blood packing
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Endurance athletes typically go down for erythropoietin (EPO), which boosts the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in the body, or for biological passport violations related to blood doping, which involves injecting extra blood (either your own or someone else’s) to get more red blood cells.
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 25 July 2025
But there’s still a long way to go, from viable sponsorships for women in running, to the allegation that being pregnant is akin to blood doping due to the potentially performance-enhancing hormones released in a pregnant woman’s body.
—Maya Silver, NPR, 22 June 2024
In the late 1960s, blood doping started (also called blood-boosting).
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2022
Trainers experiment with anything that may give their horses an edge, including chemicals that bulk up pigs and cattle before slaughter, cobra venom, Viagra, blood doping agents, stimulants and cancer drugs.
—New York Times, 9 May 2021
The length — measured in nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA — of a type of RNA that could expose blood doping.
—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2019
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 25 July 2025
But there’s still a long way to go, from viable sponsorships for women in running, to the allegation that being pregnant is akin to blood doping due to the potentially performance-enhancing hormones released in a pregnant woman’s body.
—Maya Silver, NPR, 22 June 2024
In the late 1960s, blood doping started (also called blood-boosting).
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2022
Trainers experiment with anything that may give their horses an edge, including chemicals that bulk up pigs and cattle before slaughter, cobra venom, Viagra, blood doping agents, stimulants and cancer drugs.
—New York Times, 9 May 2021
The length — measured in nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA — of a type of RNA that could expose blood doping.
—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2019
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“Blood doping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20doping. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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