Italian rugby player caught with 11 banned substances

An Italian rugby player has tested positive for a suspected record-setting amount of banned substances.

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While Colonel Sanders had 11 secret spices, Davide Vasta, a player with third division (Serie B) club Amatori Catania — based in Sicily — had his own secret mixture of 11 substances.

According to Italian newspaper La Gazetta dello Sport, the previous record for substances found in a single test was seven.

After the random drug test and provisional ban, Vasta told La Gazzetta that he took the drugs more than a year ago.

The full list of Vasta’s cocktail of banned substances include a few regulars – testosterone and nandrolone – that athletes looking to build muscle typically get pinged for but also a drug used “to resize the mammary glands,” according to La Gazetta.

For the pharmaceutical buffs here’s the full list of substances Vasta tested positive for:

Testosterone

Boldenone metabolite

Drostanolone

Mesterolone

Methandienone

Methasterone

Methyldienolone

Stenbolone metabolite

Clomiphene metabolite

19-noretiocholanolone 

19-norandrosterone.