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Nadal wins doping allegation case, gets €12,000 for damages
Tennis star, Rafael Nadal won a case to ‘defend his integrity’ after a Paris court ordered former French Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot to pay him 12,000 euros for defamation.
Bachelot, in a TV interview last year, suggested Nadal had taken performance enhancing drugs in 2012, for which the Spaniard sued her for damages, saying her comments were harmful to his image.
The judge also issued Bachelot with a suspended fine of 500 euros, ruling that she was guilty of defamation.
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In a statement Nadal said: “I intended not only to defend my integrity and my image as an athlete but also the values I have defended all my career.
“I also wish to avoid any public figure from making insulting or false allegations against an athlete using the media, without any evidence or foundation and to go unpunished.”
However, the world number one said he would donate the compensation in full to a French charity.
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