Preliminary findings released Thursday by the government-appointed working group came after six skiers tested positive for performance-enhancing HES, a banned plasma expander, at the World Nordic Ski Championships in February.
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The decision was announced Friday by association chairman Paavo Petaja, who said the skiers were guilty of " deliberate doping, " after they tested positive for performance-enhancing HES, a banned plasma expander.
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In these emergency situations, a plasma expander is a more effective life-saving procedure than a blood transfusion, because the metabolism of transfused red blood cells does not restart immediately after a transfusion.
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He had earlier acknowledged administering HES, a plasma expander injected into the blood to improve performance or hide the use of other banned substances, at the championships in Finland in February 2001.
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The list turned out to be an order form from which only 20 drugs had been picked and the supposedly missing plasma expander was accounted for, resulting in an unconditional apology from the network.
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Myllyla tested positive for HES, a banned plasma expander, at the World Nordic Ski Championships in 2001 and received a two-year ban along with three other male skiers and two female skiers for two years.
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It is fermented at commercial scale for uses in veterinary medicine, separation technology, biotechnology, the food industry for gelling, viscosifying, and emulsifying, in human medicine as a prebiotic, cholesterol-lowering agent or blood plasma expander, and more.
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Six cross-country skiers tested positive for HES, a banned plasma expander, at Lahti in February 2001, forfeiting four medals, including the men's team gold in the 4x10-kilometer relay and the women's silver in the 4x5-kilometer relay.
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Myllyla tested positive for HES, a banned plasma expander, at the World Nordic Ski Championships in 2001 and was banned from competition skiing along with three other male skiers and two female skiers for two years.
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Damian Kallabis, the 3, 000-meter steeplechase champion at the European Championship in Budapest in August, and Stephane Franke, the 10, 000 bronze medalist, confirmed taking the so-called blood plasma expander HES, which helps the circulation of blood.
