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with the credit_default_swaps tag  In the past year the Union
Cycliste International (UCI), the governing body of professional
cycling, has been in the process of rolling out their biological
passport program in hopes of catching drug cheats. The
biological passport program represents a huge change in
direction on the war against drugs. The UCI realized that
artificially increasing the oxygen carrying capacity of blood is
the single most effective way to cheat in endurance sports so
they have developed a programs to monitor cyclist's blood
carrying capacity.   Basically, the biological passport program
uses a rider's blood, collected in out-of-competition and in-
competition tests to develop a profile of their "normal" blood
values. Cyclists will be tested randomly throughout the year and
if their blood profile strays outside a statistically
significant range they may be subject to sanction. What makes
this revolutionary is that there does not ne