The World Anti-Doping Agency and the UCI have responded to a report aired on France 2 on Sunday evening, which documented a study that showed how the biological passport could be circumvented by the use of micro-doses of EPO and blood transfusions.
As part of a study carried out by Pierre Sallet of the Athletes for Transparency organisation, eight amateur athletes, primarily triathletes, were doped under supervision for a period of 29 days, showing significant improvements in performance. Sallet, who also participated in the experiment, demonstrated that his blood values would not have fallen foul of the biological passport parameters.
In a statement published on the WADA website, director general David Howman clarified that the study had not been sanctioned by the anti-doping body. He also pointed out that the study had yet to be peer reviewed and published in a scientific journal.
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“WADA is aware of the television report that aired on France Télévisions. We would like to clarify that while we did make the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) software available, we certainly did not ‘bless’ or endorse the study, as has been suggested,” Howman said.
“The study does not accurately follow the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) guidelines, and therefore its relevance to the ABP is not entirely clear.”
Howman said that while WADA “welcomed and encouraged” research relevant to the biological, it “does not ever recommend athletes take part as ‘human guinea pigs’ in a study in which they would be subjected to taking performance enhancing drugs.”
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