The Ring magazine June cover

[Althugz]

Proves nothing but I see where you're coming from! (of course you didn't say it proved anything anyway, just that it added to the myth) - that's probably airbrushed to shit too as magazines tend to do these days.

Remember though, PEDs (I promise not to use that buzz word again!) don't neccesarily have an outward manifestation. EPO for example just gives you fantastic stamina by raising your red blood cell count!

That's the same thing blood doping does, right?

Yeah, exactly - Athletes use EPO to "dope" their blood if you will.

They used to do it a lot more primatively before though! Draw it out and store it for a few weeks so that the blood would be replaced by the body and then put the stored blood back in before an event!