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technique for temporarily improving athletic performance in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells from blood previously withdrawn from an athlete are reinjected just before an event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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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 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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1971, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blood doping was in 1971

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blood doping

noun
: a technique for temporarily improving athletic performance in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells previously withdrawn from an athlete are injected back just before an event

called also blood packing

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