Lloris has license suspended, fined £50K after admitting drunk driving

Hugo Lloris has confessed to operating a vehicle in central London while being more than twice over the legal alcohol limit.

The Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper has been hit with a £50,000 fine and 20-month driving ban after pleading guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. He was caught drunk driving during a routine patrol stop in Marylebone in the early hours of Aug. 24.

The court heard Lloris, 31, was pulled over by an unmarked car while in his Porsche Panamera, driving 15mph (24kph) in a 30mph (48kph) zone. Prosecutor Henry Fitch told the room that the World Cup winner veered his car "towards parked vehicles" before he straightened up and proceeded to go through a red light.

Police officers who stopped the vehicle then found vomit inside and had to help the Spurs and France captain from the car. His sample contained 80 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of breath, when the legal limit in England and Wales is 35 micrograms.

"I wish to apologize wholeheartedly to my family, the club, my teammates, the manager, and all of the supporters," Lloris said when news surfaced of his arrest last month. "Drink driving is completely unacceptable. I take full responsibility for my actions and it is not the example I wish to set."