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Nadal slams French television show

Updated on: 11 February,2012 07:30 AM IST  | 
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Tennis great Rafael Nadal has attacked a French satirical puppet show that implied he and other Spanish sports stars are drug cheats, saying it had crossed the line.

Nadal slams French television show

Tennis great Rafael Nadal has attacked a French satirical puppet show that implied he and other Spanish sports stars are drug cheats, saying it had crossed the line.

Rafael Nadal
Furious: Rafael Nadal

The sketches on Canal Plus France's television show "Les Guignols" whipped up a storm of outrage in Spain, prompting its foreign minister to order a formal protest to French media.

One sketch featured a puppet likeness of Nadal refuelling the tank of his car from his own bladder, a fill-up which powers up the car and leads to him being pulled over by police.




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