Italian Bodybuilder Busted

[drtbear1967]

Giuseppe Ippolito has tested positive for an array of banned substances and steroids. In fact, he tested positive for a whopping fourteen illegal steroids/substances! Usually, people don’t test positive for that many things at once, so this bust was definitely newsworthy.

The details of the bust were released in early July of this year (2017), via the IFBB (International Federation of Bodybuilders). Included on the list of substances/steroids that he tested positive for:
*stimulants
*anabolic steroid metabolites
*ancillary drugs for bodybuilding
These included:
1) Canrenone – a diuretic similar to Spirolactone
2) Masteron – Drostanolone and its metabolite (2α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one);
3) Dianabol metabolites: Epimethenediol, 6b-hydroxymethandienone, 17-epimethandienone;
4) Methyltestosterone metabolites: 17α-methyl-5α-androstane-3α, 17β-diol, 17α-methyl-5b-androstane-3α, 17β-diol;
5) Equipoise – Boldenoneand its metabolite: 5b-androst-1-en-17b-ol-3-one;
6) Trenbolone metabolites: 17α-trenbolone;
7) Winstrol – Stanozolol metabolites: 3′-hydroxystanosolol, 16b-hydroxystanosolol;
8) Oral Turinabol – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone metabolite: 6b-hydroxy-4-chlorodehydromethyltestosterone;
9) Methamphetamine;
10) Amphetamine;
11) Deprenyl – Selegiline and its metabolite (±) -N-desmethyl-selegiline;
12) Deca Durabolin metabolites – 19-norethiocholanolone;
13) Deca Durabolin metabolites – 19-norandrosterone;
14) Non-endogenous testosterone and testosterone metabolites
Clearly, this weightlifter wasn’t making a very comprehensive attempt to avoid detection. This isn’t as uncommon as you would think! Steroid use and banned substance usage in bodybuilding is really prevalent. It’s safe to say that a lot of bodybuilders consider it to be normal and ok, although it’s technically illegal.
The truth is that the USA doesn’t test for these substances too often, via its governing bodies, which are IFBB (International Federation of Bodybuilders) and NPC (National Physique Committee. In Europe and Asia, bodybuilders do get tested more often, generally, during competitions.
NADO Italia is an agency that is funded by Italy’s federal government and it’s one agency which tests athletes, during or out of competitions. It partners with WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) and works from WADA’s list of banned substances.


According to NADO Italia, the Italian bodybuilder had a potent cocktail of banned substances on board when he was tested. Examples include, but are not limited to, Winstrol, Trenbolone, Dianabol and Canrenone.


He’s not the only offender. Italy has busted a couple of sportsmen for taking a range of banned substances.
During March of 2016, this governing body in Italy published the rest results of a rugby player named Davide Vasta, which had eleven banned substances on board. For example, Masteron, Proviron, Superdrol and Anatrolin were in his urine/blood when he was tested, along with a whole lot more.

Bodybuilders Often Use Banned Substances

In the world of elite sports, it’s safe to say that bodybuilders dope regularly in order to gain competitive advantage or in order to stay in competition with others who are using banned substances. It’s a real problem. Bodybuilders rationalize it because they don’t really have much of a chance to win if they are competing against other people who have these substances on board…and, so often, they are competing against people who dope.
So, it’s not hard to find compassion for bodybuilders who make the decision to use these substances. On the flip side, they know the rules, so they are fully aware of the possible consequences.
In Italy, during the Italian Bodybuilding Norditalia Championship, which was held in Bussolengo, during late May of 2016, NADO Italia busted eleven bodybuilders. All of them were taking four or more banned substances.

What Is the Solution Here?

It’s so hard to say what the solution is. The problem is rampant and it’s not likely to go away because of a few new positive test results. People have been testing positive for decades. Steroids and banned substances are out there and they are like the “devil’s candy” to those who want to win at athletic competitions.


In particular, bodybuilders who need to be as big and as strong as possible tend to take the plunge and use illegal substances in order to boost their chances of victory. Are these athletes villains? Probably not. Athletes need to work hard whether they are doping or not.
Obviously, a solution to this problem is not in the offing. The rounds of testing and busting will go on. What’s amazing is how little care some bodybuilders are taking to hide what they do.

 

[Presser]

It's a joke! They put massive steroid users on the covers of all our magazines and sell them front and center in every store imaginable and then use their profits to line their pockets and not a fucking dime on lobbyists !!!

Shameful!

imagine going to the Arnold Classic , and get to the show only to hear the announcer tell everyone the show is canceled this year due to EVERY LAST COMPETITOR TESTING POSITIVE FOR A BANNED SUBSTANCE! And that's what would happen if they really TRULY wanted to clean up the sport! But no instead let's let our European federation randomly pick and choose who gets tested and fails , so we the IFBB Italia can have something to point to when asked if they test or run a clean sport!

Imagine having many different drug magazines in every store , instead of MD (muscular development) you had magazines called "FIX" and every month on the cover was the skinniest , dark bag eyed mother fucker on the cover showing off his track marks like we show off veins, and then the inside was filled with QUICK FIX articles, or 10 ways to cook your dope without a spoon, and kids read it and parent bought the magazines for their kids, and then everyone wondering why are so many people using heroin and cocain etc...


Wait it gets better , every year their were competitions, with professional addicts! "Mr Cracked Out" in the fall and "Damn Near Dead Classic" in spring .

Let's not forget the numerous amature shows where guys and gals could compete to become professional addicts!

Now heres the real kicker, you get all good and high for the show, you must have snorted 10 grams of blow the last 12 weeks before the show, you were disciplined enough to stay awake from Thursday through Saturday morning to really show off those dark saggy bags under your bloodshot eyes! You think, I nailed it! I'm on fucking point , so you inject some heroin 45 minutes before going on stage!

You get to the venue holding the show and you see your idol "Ian The Injector" a well known professional space cadet as he stumbles by you and who's there guest posing! Then the promotor comes over to tell you that you can't compete as you tested positive for cocain, heroin, OxyContin , black tar heroin just to name a few , and that your banned!




Unreal man!

 

[NAIR]

"Ian the Injector" (from Google pictures)

I googled the same for "Mr Cracked out" and found a picture of Branch Warren lol.

 

[Masher59]

LOL, sometimes you just want to get jacked. I would pop hot for about 12 if I was tested right now LMFAO.

 

[Iron Game]

It's a joke! They put massive steroid users on the covers of all our magazines and sell them front and center in every store imaginable and then use their profits to line their pockets and not a fucking dime on lobbyists !!!

Shameful!

imagine going to the Arnold Classic , and get to the show only to hear the announcer tell everyone the show is canceled this year due to EVERY LAST COMPETITOR TESTING POSITIVE FOR A BANNED SUBSTANCE! And that's what would happen if they really TRULY wanted to clean up the sport! But no instead let's let our European federation randomly pick and choose who gets tested and fails , so we the IFBB Italia can have something to point to when asked if they test or run a clean sport!

Imagine having many different drug magazines in every store , instead of MD (muscular development) you had magazines called "FIX" and every month on the cover was the skinniest , dark bag eyed mother fucker on the cover showing off his track marks like we show off veins, and then the inside was filled with QUICK FIX articles, or 10 ways to cook your dope without a spoon, and kids read it and parent bought the magazines for their kids, and then everyone wondering why are so many people using heroin and cocain etc...


Wait it gets better , every year their were competitions, with professional addicts! "Mr Cracked Out" in the fall and "Damn Near Dead Classic" in spring .

Let's not forget the numerous amature shows where guys and gals could compete to become professional addicts!

Now heres the real kicker, you get all good and high for the show, you must have snorted 10 grams of blow the last 12 weeks before the show, you were disciplined enough to stay awake from Thursday through Saturday morning to really show off those dark saggy bags under your bloodshot eyes! You think, I nailed it! I'm on fucking point , so you inject some heroin 45 minutes before going on stage!

You get to the venue holding the show and you see your idol "Ian The Injector" a well known professional space cadet as he stumbles by you and who's there guest posing! Then the promotor comes over to tell you that you can't compete as you tested positive for cocain, heroin, OxyContin , black tar heroin just to name a few , and that your banned!




Unreal man!

Sure is shameful!

 

[trekrider215]

Presser that was some funny shit.

and yah people try to make excuses and reasons for why bodybuilders use steroids but it really is as simple as WE WANT TO BE FRIGGIN JACKED. In other sports its a little different. Like consider professional cycling for instance. Most of those guys don't know shit about gear and probably don't really care about it that much, but at that level they pretty much need to be doping if they want to stay in the upper echelon of the elite. At that level of cycling, you get to a point where you eventually just really aren't going to be able to go any faster, so a lot of those guys try and bank on their experience levels and skill. The guys at the top are doping and it gets to where you pretty much don't have a choice. You really aren't going to find many amateur cyclists doping because it's really not needed. However when it comes to bodybuilding and lifting sports pretty much everyone and their grandmother is using some sort of gear protocol.


This really does seem like a joke though. To be honest I really didn't even know any IFBB or affiliates tested anyone ever. I'm kind of confused, was this dude in the IFBB or a separate organization?