The Doping of Euro

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An athlete was found to have blood doping in his system after the antidoping association accused him of using performance enhancing drugs.
The athlete's mutation allowed him to turn on the EPO receptors more easily, which allowed him to use more EPO.
Euro had always had high levels of EPO in his blood, due to a mutation he had.

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