Floyd Landis

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Freakonomics Radio · 662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

There's EPO, which increases your red blood cell count, which for endurance sports is a major limiting factor, delivering oxygen to your muscles while you're exercising.

But there's also anabolics.

There's testosterone and there's peptides, human growth hormone, things like that that also help you recover faster.

I think that there's really not much else you could do that you could get away with.

Amphetamines and things like that are just too easy to test for, so we didn't do anything like that.

The way the tests had evolved in cycling, you couldn't just simply use as much EPO as you wanted.

So you would do blood transfusions.

You would take some blood out and refrigerate it for a period of time.

We would add a little bit of EPO to try to more quickly replace those red blood cells, and then we would have that blood to use during the race.

Got it.

And when is the testing window?

For EPO, the testing window is like six to eight hours, so you could pretty much be sure you could get away with it.

When you put the blood back in, you do that immediately before a race then?

A week into the race, you could add a half a liter of blood and still appear as though you hadn't really added it.

Because they're also testing for the red blood cell parameters too, so you're trying to game that system.

So you would put it back in during the race...

What happens during the race is you don't use up red blood cells, but because you have so much extra stress, you have what effectively looks like less red blood cells because it's diluted.

There's more water in your blood and more plasma just because there's cortisol and other stress hormones make it appear as if it's reduced.

So a week into the race, you could add a half a liter of blood.

Did you feel guilty, conflicted?

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