I wanted to ignore all the puppet videos going on…I honestly don’t think they are worthy of my attention. But now Rafa has spoken about them a bit, so there will be links to that here. I do ask one thing of you guys: casting aspersions on all people from a certain place is wrong. Please, lets try to not respond to one wrong by committing another.
Articles:
- Albert Costa has confirmed that Rafa will play at the Barcelona tournament this year. (mangle)
- Corretja Begins Davis Cup Reign With Spain B Team - Reuters via the NY Times
- The Rally: Stepping Forward - by Steve Tignor and Kamakshi Tandon. This has some interesting thoughts about the AO final.
- Double ranking period could be trouble - by Kamakshi Tandon (espn.com
- Super Bowl QBs conjure Nadal-Federer; more post-Aussie mail - Wertheim’s Mailbag
- Nadal slams French ‘campaign’ to discredit Spain - by Reuters. If saying something “oversteps the line a bit” is the same as slamming, I think this article’s title oversteps the line a bit.
- Nadal: “Los guiñoles son reincidentes y sin pruebas” - via as.com (includes a video). Here’s the mangle.
Video/Audio:
- iB3 interview clips from Rafa’s Thursday practice session. (Text on the page appears to be the same as the as.com article above)
- tve.es report on the French “comedy” clips - with a bit of the interview from Rafa’s practice.
- Another rtv interview - it’s very wrong how much I love it when he goes “pppfffbbbbbbb”.
- Interview vid with English subtitles. (Plus, “pfffffbbbbbb”)
- More of the same interview stuff
- And more
Photos:
- Changing shirts is difficult! - click around the album for more photos.
- Photo tweeted by Toni Colom.
Rafa does social media:
- Rafa let us know he was doing crazy backwards running footdrills. Not sure what he means by tape, though. Treadmill?
- Yesterday he seemed to have been suffering a bit of cold-weather cabin fever and went to visit a practice session of some other players.
Oooodles of tweets about Rafa’s practice session from David J Nadal and Marc Capo:
Declaraciones de @RafaelNadal a @IB3noticies : “La sanción a Contador me parece exagerada. Creo que le utilizan como cabeza de turco”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal :”Los deportistas estamos asustados.Estamos expuestos a que nos pase cualquier desastre”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal :”Los deportistas estamos asustados.Estamos expuestos a que nos pase cualquier desastre”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal : “Yo creo en Alberto. Lo conozco, es sincero, honesto y profesional”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Rafel Nadal: “Las instituciones deben defendernos. No es una campaña contra mi, es contra España y contra el deporte español en general”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Rafel Nadal: “No lo hace sólo Canal +,otros medios también.Es una campaña globalizada del pais vecino”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
“Los de arriba nos tienen que defender”, ha reclamado Rafel Nadal esta mañana en Manacor.
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal : “Con muchísimos menos recursos que ellos hemos conseguido muchísimo más que ellos.Algo estamos haciendo mejor”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
“Ofende quien puede no quien quiere. Me pueden hacer 20 viñetas o lo que quieran. Estoy muy tranquilo”, asegura Rafel Nadal
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Toni Nadal: “Lo que les molesta es estar tantos años sin ganar Roland Garros. Y creo que van a estar unos cuantos años más sin hacerlo”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Hoy Rafel Nadal y Toni han pasado un poco de frio durante el entrenamiento. twitter.com/davidjnadal/st…
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal atendiendo esta mañana en Manacor a los medios de comunicación. twitter.com/davidjnadal/st…
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Toni Nadal, en @IB3noticies: “Cuando tú hablas mal de alguien lo que realmente estás haciendo es hablar mal de ti” twitter.com/davidjnadal/st…
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
@ RafaelNadal: “Athletesare afraid. We are exposed to any disasterhappens to us”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
“Anyone can put a substance in a glass of water and fuck your career. You can not prove,” Rafel Nadal dixit
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Rafael Nadal: “Institutions must defend ourselves. Not There is a campaign against me is against Spain and Spanish sport in general”
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Toni Nadal: “What bothers them is to be so many years without winning Roland Garros. And I think that will be a few more years without doing
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) February 9, 2012
Primeres reaccions de @RafaelNadal després de la polèmica amb els guinyols. El veim a @esportsib3tv twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
#Rafa esta mañana con la prensa twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
Rafa Nadal i Tomeu Salvà twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
#Rafa’s drive twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
Toni Nadal, siempre atento twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
#Rafa ‘s court, Rafa’s temple. twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
@RafaelNadal pase lo que pase, que si guiñoles, que si frio…siempre tiene una sonrisa para @esportsib3tv Un crack! twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
En realidad, no hace tanto frio… twitter.com/MarcCapo/statu…
— Marc Capó (@MarcCapo) February 9, 2012
But, Benito might win the award for the tweet of the day:
i wish somebody would have warned me today that the bag of stupid people was left opened
— Benito P-Barbadillo (@benitopb) February 9, 2012
