Long- distance runners like to train at high altitudes because the lack of oxygen there stimulates the
A) muscles to contract less strongly.
B) muscles to contract faster.
C) body to produce more lung tissue.
D) capillaries to diffuse oxygen more slowly.
E) bone marrow to make more erythrocytes.
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