VIDEO: Rafael Nadal Outraged By French Puppets For ‘Unacceptable’ Drug-Related Skit

Give Rafael Nadal a bottle of water on the court, and he’ll take a swig, set it down and stare ahead, focused on the next game.

Give Rafael Nadal a bottle of water in a French television show that uses puppets to create satirical skits and Nadal will attack.

But it’s more than a bottle of water. It’s the fact that the French TV show, Les Guignols, showed Nadal down the bottle of water from a gas station and then relieve himself in the gas tank of his car, only to race away before being pulled over by French authorities.

The 25-year-old star Spaniard is upset by the way Les Guignols linked him and other Spanish athletes to illegal drugs, calling the skit “the kind of humour that for one day is fine but if it is repeated over and over again it’s not right.”

To make matters more controversial, the Nadal puppet is driving along to an Enrique Iglesias song called “I like How It Feels.”

Here’s just the opening lyrics of the song.

It’s my life, I can do what I like
For the price of a smile, I gotta take it to right
So I keep living, cause the feel’s right

And it’s so nice, and I’d do it all again
This time, it’s forever
It gets better, and I I, I like how it feels

Sure, who knows what Enrique is actually singing about but when coupled with the slogan at the end of the video that is translated to “Spanish athletes - they do not win by chance,” no wonder the World No. 2 is outraged.

From the Daily Mail:

“Insisting that he is completely clean of drugs, the six times French Open winner said: There’s no question of pills or syringes or anything like that I can assure you.”

Spain’s Foreign Minister called the videos ‘in extremely bad taste.’

See for yourself.