Report says Kolo Touré has condition that makes him think he is fat

Kolo Touré is suspended from football until 2 September.

The full extent of the weight issues that led to Kolo Touré taking a banned substance and subsequently being suspended from football for six months has been laid bare in a report that diagnoses the Manchester City player as suffering from a "recognised medical condition" in which he had become "obsessed" with a "misplaced perception that he was fat."
The in-depth findings into Touré's disciplinary case for being found with bendroflumethiazide in his system claims three different doctors had seen him as part of the case. Their analysis was of a man who "for some years has had a problem controlling his weight, has become obsessed with his weight and more particularly the appearance of his belly".
The report, released by the Football Association, goes on to say the medical evidence "proved the existence of a recognised medical condition concerning his perception of his appearance" .Touré's case "was that he took the water tablets to reduce the size and appearance of his belly, flowing from his misplaced perception that he was fat, a symptom of his medical condition".
Touré was banned from all football activities, including training with the rest of Roberto Mancini's players, until 2 September, after admitting the offence following a routine drug test after the Manchester derby at Old Trafford on 12 February.
The report claims the 30-year-old told the commission he had been under the belief he was allowed to take the water tablets after putting them into a drug dosette marked "Herbalife" and showing them to the club's then doctor, Jamie Butler, during an overnight hotel stay before the FA Cup tie at Notts County on 30 January.
Touré's case was that he asked Butler "these are the supplements I take, are they OK?" According to the FA document, he "recalled Dr Butler looking through the bag, lifting out some of the contents and then telling him that "everything in the bag is OK.'"
However, Butler told the hearing he could not recollect seeing the bottle of water tablets at any stage, and that his recollection was that Touré simply told him he wanted to start taking some Herbalife products. His evidence was in stark contrast to that of the player.
The report finds Touré did not make sufficient checks to establish whether the water tablets contained any banned substances, pointing out there were "obvious and reasonable steps that he could and should have taken; for example, make proper inquires with the club or his own doctor".
Rather than checking with the clinic where the tablets were issued, Touré had "relied upon multiple hearsay: he asked his wife to ask her friend who asked a receptionist who asked a doctor. That was perfunctory and pregnant with risk".
Touré's legal team "comfortably satisfied" the hearing that he had taken the tablets purely for "aesthetic purposes" and not for any performance-enhancing means, but the former Arsenal player is criticised for ignoring the advice that is routinely presented to him as a professional sportsman.
The commission was "unimpressed with the argument that his medical condition impaired his judgment." The report adds: "Kolo Touré is 30 years of age. He has received anti-doping education. He has been tested many times before. He has appeared in an anti-doping film. He is a seasoned and experienced international player … knowledgeable about, and with experience of, anti-doping regimes.
"In short [he] repeatedly, and for some time, took medication contained in a medicine bottle labelled only [with] a white sticky label on which was printed 'water tablets x21'. Frankly, they could have been anything."