[Herbert]

The bible or whatever other holy text that certain someone lives by would strictly forbid her to get some blood transfusions of her own blood enhanced with her own red blood cells that was harvested from her own body a few days, weeks or months earlier?

[MakarovaFan]

Originally Posted by tennisbum79

You would be right if the the thread author had not voluntarily said there is player, but s/he does not want to mention any name.
YOU ASKED

If s/he truly just wanted to "discuss blood doping and how it would apply to tennis given the existing regulatory atmosphere in the tennis circuits" as you stated, s/he could simply have said that


But writing "There is, but I don't want to drag the name of a particular player into it." takes the thread into a speculative direction, whether s/he intended it or not

That wasn't the OP.....
Are tennis players allowed to take blood transfusions before matches?

Originally Posted by chuvack

If so, is this a technique that could be beneficial to a player's short term fitness? And if not, how would the WTA, ITF or whoever actually check to make sure players aren't doing it?

[Melange]

Originally Posted by Herbert

The bible or whatever other holy text that certain someone lives by would strictly forbid her to get some blood transfusions of her own blood enhanced with her own red blood cells that was harvested from her own body a few days, weeks or months earlier?

tennis comes first

[tennisbum79]

Originally Posted by MakarovaFan

That wasn't the OP.....
Are tennis players allowed to take blood transfusions before matches?

Yes it was a response from OP. Check this post

http://www.tennisforum.com/showpost....50&postcount=3

[le bon vivant]

Originally Posted by tennisbum79

That would be hard to, the jeannie is already out of the bottle.

The thread cannot develop w/o disclosing that.

At least you can lay out the situation/scenario w/o disclosing a name

Not the jeannie

[MaBaker]

No.

[Tenis Srbija]

Originally Posted by miffedmax

If only Dementieva could have had a brain inplant before her matches.

[paulmara]

Great idea

[Матвей.]

Wasn't Paszek nearly banned for this?

[Infiniti2001]

Originally Posted by Uranium

^No, since it would go against that someone's religion.

Exactly!! Too bad the OP doesn't have the balls to say what he really means

[Rocketta]

Originally Posted by Uranium

^No, since it would go against that someone's religion.

Dog, I was joking, totally forgot about Venus being a JW.

But in all seriousness, I do believe JW are able to get transfusions of their own blood... or that some are ok with that.... Now we can turn the conversation away from religion because they all have beliefs that some others don't agree with.

[Rocketta]

Originally Posted by Infiniti2001

Exactly!! Too bad the OP doesn't have the balls to say what he really means

Man, today must be a slow day for me... didn't even cross my mind the OP was hinting at Venus.... Why would anyone think Venus would cheat?

[dybbuk]

So basically you accuse a player of blood doping but refuse to back up your accusations in any way? If you just wanted it to be a general question you could have denied that you were asking the question because of a particular player.

[NashaMasha]

Do tennis player have blood passports? if they have , blood doping won't be useful. Really i don't think that they have, because in sports where WADA is taking care of it a number of sportsmen are DQ for five days or not allowed to take part in particular start (skiing, cycling) just because theier blood test sho anomaly Of course this anomaly can be natural , therefore these sportsmen are just suspended for a while

[tennisbum79]

Originally Posted by dybbuk

So basically you accuse a player of blood doping but refuse to back up your accusations in any way? If you just wanted it to be a general question you could have denied that you were asking the question because of a particular player.

Exactly, I made that very point as well.

But Makarovafan did not understand