Spanish federation to sue French TV for Nadal skit

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MADRID (AP)—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 pulled over by traffic police for speeding.

A message reading “Spanish athletes. They don’t win by chance,” then appears on the screen surrounded by the logos of the tennis federation and other Spanish federations such as those of cycling and football.

“This time they have gone way too far,” tennis federation president Jose Luis Escanuela said in the statement. “We at the tennis federation cannot tolerate the slander and damage to the prestige of our athletes.”

http://tennis.com/articles/templates/news.aspx?articleid=16296&zoneid=4

Unable to post a screenshot...shows a pupppet Nadal injecting....

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1. No sense of humor at the Spanish Federation.

Still pissed at Yannick Noah, I guess.

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2. Yup...I don't know the laws there...

But I wonder how you could sue.

Anyway, if there's truth to the doping, which I think there really is, they probably shouldn't sue.