Lleyton Hewitt BANNED From Playing Tennis!

News overnight that Aussie tennis superstar Lleyton Hewitt is in a bit of trouble for a run-in with an anti-doping official. This reminded our own former sporting superstar Fitzy to tell a story about his days having to pee in a cup! 👀

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitsy and with her with Kate Richie
podcast talk.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
About this breaking news overnight Grand Slam champ Laydon Hewittt suspended.
How's this for two weeks and find thirty thousand dollars?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well, he's look, he's very passionate about He was passionate
about Australia and the Davis Cup means everything to him.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah. Yeah. This incident occurred last November fits and apparently
he pushed or man handled a doping official.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
A dope he official, dope.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Sleeping on the job and when he stood up, he
pushed him and said, don't fall asleep again. No, he
was an anti doping official that was working at the
tennis at the time, and what actually happened was apparently
he's given him a bit of a don't argue and
got him out of the way when he was moving around.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
The tennis. Officials have come out and said.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That his actions did not meet the requirement of self defense,
which he claimed because lighton he had very quickly went on,
come on.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Mate, what's but is it?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
A doping officials? I mean he doesn't have to pee,
does he?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, he doesn't need to pee. No, it wasn't to
do with that. This guy just got in the way.
Layton came out and said, there's absolutely nothing in it.
And then they went, oh, we've got a bit of
footage an overlook, and he went.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
You got me. You know what, I had a real
I had a real problem when I played for the Swan. No, No,
I had.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
A real officials in general. I had a real.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Problem wing Oh yeah, with the doping officials after a
Swans game.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
He was over at Cubak over over in Perth and
played a great game. At my game, I thought I
was going to go into the press conference and then
they said, Fitzgerald, your name has been called out. You've
got to go into pe pee into a cup. Now
when you play a game of football, you're you're actually
really dehydrated.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And I couldn't pee for two hours. Was whip. The
boys left me like.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I couldn't even get on the team bus because I
was drinking all this power aid trying to pee and
I just could not pee into a cup.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And the guy was standing there for two hours. You've
got a cup.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
You've got a guy watching you the whole They've got
to watch you do it.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
No one, you can't wear you've got stage front.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
So then I had to get out my fake Willie
and use somebody else's.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Stories, stories from how to get around there to France.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, there was fake willies and they were used and
you like that was the sound effects and everything, and
then they were using other people's year on.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right and you but I think the Wii actually
came out of the fake Willie because you had to
produce something, so that was like some sort of water
bomb attached to the the other end of the fake.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, you don't have to break out that fake.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Your colors. Kate Ritchie is a never podcast shows like this.
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