First it was Yanick Noah's remarks that Spanish athletes must be taking a "magic potion" and now "Les Guignols de L'info" did some comedy skits about Nadal and other sportsmen from Spain, implying that they are winning so much because of doping. Now Spain authorities are up in arms and preparing to sue Canal+. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-contadors-drug-shame-french-tv-satire-raises-spanish-hackles-6720036.html [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGdd_00QBBI&feature=player_embedded"]Rafael Nadal junkie? les sportifs espagnols ils ne gagnent pas par hasard - Les Guignols - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndgSP33nWXc&feature=watch_response"]Les Guignols - Contador, Gasol, Nadal & Casillas - Gioconda española. - YouTube[/ame]
you're wrong there mate, it's more like 20. but what the spaniards don't realize is that they've always been just as caustic towards french sports stars. they just don't get it. the same way they don't get that it's wrong to torture and kill bulls for "sport", throw goats out of steeples or hang hunting dogs from trees when the chase is over (their hind legs just touching the ground to prolong the agony... just for kicks).
let me say this about that. there are people in spain who really take animal rights to heart. the city of barcelona banned bullfighting some years ago and the province of catalonia followed suit about a year ago. the fight to ban bullfighting here in france (or at least overturn sarkozy's minister of green carnations' decision to consider it as hallowed and protected an element of french culture as carcassonne or camembert) receives indispensable support from spaniards who are horrified to see the most barbarous of their customs spreading like a cancer. on the whole however, if gandhi was right when he said "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated", you could bomb spain back to the stone age with 5 bucks worth of chinese fireworks.
i turned my TV off just a couple of seconds before that, and just before batum was interviewed about "the olympic spirit" that evening. spain lost to brazil on purpose? big deal. they also WON against france on purpose when france had every chance to take the match. france (though not batum: he should be angrier at a couple of his teammates than navarro) just pussied out in the last 2 minutes against a team that was perfectly beatable.
