Rafa Nadal has hit out at what he called a "general campaign" in France to discredit Spanish athletes by implying their success is due to the use of illegal drugs.
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes made by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy it's like...
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes made by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping.
Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: ''8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy...
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February 08, 2012
The Spanish tennis federation said it plans to sue a French TV channel for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal.
In the video skit on the satirical program called The Puppets, a life-size cartoon figure of Nadal is shown urinating into a gas tank before racing off and being pulled over by police for speeding.
A message of ''Spanish athletes. They don...
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February 08, 2012
The Spanish tennis federation is planning to sue Canal Plus France for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal and other Spaniards' alleged ties to doping.
In the video skit this week on Les Guignols (The Puppets) satirical program, a man wearing a Nadal puppet mask is shown urinating into his car's gas tank before racing off at immense speed only to be...
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes made by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping.
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping.
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping.
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February 10, 2012
Spain showed it can win without Rafael Nadal, with the defending Davis Cup champions taking a 2-0 lead over Kazakhstan on Friday behind victories by Juan Carlos Ferrero and Nicolas Almagro. Ferrero rallied in the fifth set to beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 to open the World Group first-round series on indoor clay.
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February 10, 2012
Spain showed it can win without Rafael Nadal, with the defending Davis Cup champions taking a 2-0 lead over Kazakhstan on Friday behind victories by Juan Carlos Ferrero and Nicolas Almagro.
Ferrero rallied in the fifth set to beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 to open the World Group first-round series on indoor clay. Almagro downed Andrey Golubev 6-3, 4-6, 6-1,...
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February 11, 2012
Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise drug test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was the butt of jokes made by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping.
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February 08, 2012
The Spanish tennis federation said it plans to sue a French TV channel for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal.
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February 10, 2012
Novak Djokovic with his girlfriend Jelena Ristic
by Maud Watson
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In a field that contained among others the fastest man in the world, an international soccer star, and a 7’0” German NBA power forward, it was Novak Djokovic who took home the top honor as he was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year. The award represented hard-earned recognition for the...
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