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WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency announced yesterday that it had taken the decision to add with immediate effect the Xenon and Argon'' to the list of prohibited substances.
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The Xenon had risen to the headlines shortly after the Olympic Games in Sochi when the weekly "The Economist" published an article in which he was advancing the suspicion that it was common among Russian athletes inhale this noble gas. Inhalation that stimulate the natural production of EPO, with obvious benefits on performance.
She was born a sterile polemics and meaningless because, even assuming that what is revealed by'' The Economist was true, was about a perfectly legal procedure'' s era. Therefore, at least in this case, Russian athletes were not in violation of any prohibition.
The Wada has given three months time to adapt to the new directives.
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