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Rafael Nadal wins defamation case former French health and sports minister

Updated on: 18 November,2017 12:40 PM IST  |  Paris
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Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal won a defamation case against former French health and sports minister Roselyne Bachelot after she accused him of doping on television

Rafael Nadal wins defamation case former French health and sports minister

Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal won a defamation case against former French health and sports minister Roselyne Bachelot after she accused him of doping on television.


Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal


Bachelot was fined 500-euro by a court in Paris and ordered to pay 12,000 euros in damages and legal fees to Nadal over the allegation she made in March 2016. "When I decided to go to court it was not only to defend my own reputation as a sportsman but also to defend the values I have always held," Nadal said. Bachelot, the ex-minister from 2007-2010, alleged that Nadal had faked an injury in 2012, when he missed the final six months of the season due to knee problems, in order to hide a positive drug test.


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