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originally posted by: Mahogany
All countries have a list of vaccines needed to enter. If he had to get a polio vaccine and he refused, it would be the same deal. Countries don't make exceptions based on someone's fame or athletic ability.
He's very well aware of this and will use the time to get ready for Monte Carlo.
He's an amazing player, always a pleasure to watch, but he's a stubborn Serbian, a nation that's always 20 years behind everyone else. It will take the Serbs so long to join Europe just because they're so stubborn about things they will eventually have to agree with... like vaccines, or voting rights.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: Asmodeus3
That's beauracracy for you. Extremely slow to change even in the face of logic.
blocked his entry even though there is basically no logical reason to prevent him playing at this point in time.
originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
Its all about his stats not the vaccine. The US doesnt want him to win for few reasons.
His a Serb/Serbian and US polticans from both sides had shown to have Slavophobia bias in the past and currently.
This wont be the first time.
They really dislike the idea of Serb winning, i mean just look at the over reaction over Nikola jokic.
blocked his entry even though there is basically no logical reason to prevent him playing at this point in time.
Exactly
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: Asmodeus3
As long as they rescind all that nonsense ASAP I don't care what it is called.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Well the sickest thing, is the 'pretending' of caring. If all the governments pushed all this death and nonsense previously, knowing (yes they knew) the harms (lockdowns/ jabs) , them rescinding it now is not really altruism or logic, it is them 'turning off' the operation. They got the data they needed. And perhaps the casualties they wanted. Yes, I can be cold and logical. I used to be employed by a stupid beauracracy.
originally posted by: Mahogany
All countries have a list of vaccines needed to enter. If he had to get a polio vaccine and he refused, it would be the same deal. Countries don't make exceptions based on someone's fame or athletic ability.
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originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Mahogany
Wow what a ridiculous take. Australia may have prevented him from playing in 2022 but we let him back in to play this year and he won the Australian Open. Surprise surprise. I bet the US doesn't want the same thing happening so they blocked his entry even though there is basically no logical reason to prevent him playing at this point in time.
I agree that Slavs here in the US don't have the best reputation.
He's an amazing player, always a pleasure to watch, but he's a stubborn Serbian, a nation that's always 20 years behind everyone else. It will take the Serbs so long to join Europe just because they're so stubborn about things they will eventually have to agree with... like vaccines, or voting rights.
originally posted by: TheWhiteKnight
Well Thank God for Novak.
Were it not for his diligence
we would never know that we're sitting
inside a prison.
Goodness.
# 1687
Novak Djokovic’s readiness to walk away from tennis on a point of principle is an act of sporting heroism on a par with Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in the Vietnam war.
Like Ali was when he said he had ‘no quarrel with them Viet Cong’, Djokovic is widely accepted to be the greatest master of his sport of all time. Ali, then at the height of his powers, was banned from boxing for three years for his stance.
For refusing to take a Covid vaccination — a matter of conscience — we don’t yet know for how long Djokovic will be prevented from playing tennis at the highest level. If the bureaucrats who get to decide are of the same mentality — and quality — as the ones who so ludicrously kicked him out of Australia in January, then you’d have to say there is a chance he might never play again.
Asked by the BBC’s Amol Rajan whether he was really prepared to sacrifice his ability to compete, for example at Wimbledon or Roland Garros, for autonomy over what is put into his body, Djokovic said simply: ‘That is the price I am willing to pay’.
“The principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.