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Nice

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Lol

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Something doesn't add up. He was granted a visa. If it was not the right one his application should have been outright rejected or at least he wouldn't have been able to get on his plane. I remember a few years ago being almost prevented from catching a connecting flight to Sydney on a mere technicality although my tourist visa was perfectly valid.

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See my updated comments above as to the visa issue

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An interesting interview with the Australian Minister for Home Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDB_pHuzLoM

She refuses to answer the question at 1:43 and acknowledges that other tennis players in the same situation have entered the country without difficulty.

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I agree. Think they might be trying to make him an example?

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I think he would rather be on a plane home, but he's not.

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"I'll take my millions and go elsewhere, you keep your shitty little island" - Novax Djokovic

It's one thing to oppress people who need to work and operate in a local society - they can't escape from the jackboots. It's another to pick on an internationally famous sportsman with FU money.

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Well, if they're trying to make an example of him it'd be one of the dumbest moves yet in this conspiracy of dunces. Avoiding publicity was their best option in this situation. Djokovic has nothing left to prove in his career and this just makes him a hero of the resistance - for God's sake, even his name's perfect for the role.

I think this is more of a headless chicken move, but if we're playing conspiracy theories, I'd say they're trying to mess with him and feed him crap in that 'hotel' before they actually allow him to play, so that he doesn't perform well and doesn't win the tournament: the anti-vaxxer soundly defeated by a compliant vaccinated player; a nice morality play for the masses.

I don't usually give a fig about tennis, but I hope Novax plays, and I hope he wins.

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Our fat bogan(redneck) Prime Minister claimed Djokovic needed a medical exemption.The implication it had to be from an Australian doctor.The minor problem is...if you could even find a doctor that can even think it was possible that vaccines have side effects or that previous exposure provides some levels of protection..they are robots here...and..even if you did find that doctor who knew the above, none would sign the document as they would be disbarred after it......its Idiot Central here...sons and daughters of convicts are "happy" to be in chains.....

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So, why is Novak being detained?? If not visa-related?? 🤣

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This kind of thing was a regular tactic in the GDR (or East Germany) and the USSR. Scare you, humiliate you and make an example out of you. Being famous or rich was definitely not protection, rather the opposite as it showed "We don't care who you say are, you are in our control, we decide what you are".

"If they can do it to someone famous and rich, imagine what they can do to you" was the lesson to be learned. Djokovich's peers in the world of sports have now been put on notice, and the silence from the EU and from his country's officials speaks volumes.

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Yes, the higher up you were (in Communist Europe) the more you had to fear being made an example of.

I think 26 other players have applied for the same or similar exemption but we have not seen them subjected to the same treatment. We also have not heard a peep from them in Novak's defence. We have, however, heard a lot of vaccinated players making 'bitchy' comments. Even the usually diplomatic Nadal has jumped off the fence, but to the wrong side.

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No way!! Nadal supporting this crap treatment??

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Where r Roger n Nadal?? Have they spoken out ??

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Nadal said that he believes “in what the people who know about medicine say, and if the people say we need to get vaccinated, we need to get the vaccine,” before pointedly adding, “If you do this, you don’t have any problem to play here.” “If you are vaccinated, you can play in the Australian Open and everywhere,” he added.

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I am not sure. The media has clearly been hostile to him from the start, but look at the comments under the Sky News Australia interview I linked to above.

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