All Hail Lord Djokovic!

Markus Antonius

"36 is the new 26" - Says All time Grand Slam record holder Novac Djokovic on his defeat of Jannik Sinner, to proceed to the final of what could be his 8th Wimbledon victory.

Need I remind people? Was he the poster-boy for "Anti-vaxxers", "Right-wingers", "Toxic-Masculinicists", "Pro-Russian hate-groups"?

Or did he just want to play tennis?

People were denied access to restaurants, bars, events, travel based on their medical history! Djokovic appeared to be the only voice of reason.

Some boards.ie posts at the time:

"And he wouldn't be "snubbing" anyting as he wouldn't be welcome to start with. Hes shìtting on his own legacy and nothing else"

"public health is more important than a game of tennis"

"This whole fiasco just shows how divisive the vaccine is among people it brings out the worst in everyone"

"I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it emerges over time that it was more than a diet change that saw Novak eventually dominate the sport. Which makes his anti-vax stance even more brain-dead"

Time for Djokovic to return to his throne and let light disinfect the poison of the last three years, let us never go there again! Let's go Djokovic!

Jim_Hodge

Viva Alcaraz!!

EmmetSpiceland

Sounds like he’s still the poster-boy.

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058305109/all-hail-lord-djokovic

Jesus, the absolute state of this.

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852579#Comment_120852579

Yes, the poster boy of integrity, medical autonomy, common sense and of being a sporting legend in general!

Nadal will be remembered for being the boy who capitalized on government interference to hold the grand slam record for a few months..

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852585#Comment_120852585

I know, some of those boards.ie comments from the time are disgusting

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058305109/all-hail-lord-djokovic

This is just absolutely bizarre.

An incredible sportsman, granted, but an arsehole.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852604#Comment_120852604

So this is actually just another anti vax/covid thread badly disguised in a sporting theme.

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852615#Comment_120852615

Only an arshole in your eyes because he managed to resist the vaccine mandates longer than you did

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852616#Comment_120852616

Pull whatever politics from it you like, it won't take him off his throne. Nor will it change the mind of anyone who didn't fold to the pressure they were put under from 2021-2023.

Billy Mays

Does he believe the whole space programme/satellites thing is faked aswell??? 🧐

Xander10

Can't see this thread lasting too long

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852616#Comment_120852616

Theres a disguise?

Just seems outright usual dribble that he is the poster boy off.

Simps gotta simp.

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058305109/all-hail-lord-djokovic

The coolest man alive

Strumms

A talented tennis player won a tennis tournament, and wasn’t vaccinated shît.

prunudo

It was a mad time, when all sense and reasoning went out the window, and if you dared to even vaguely question the narrative you were shuned and shot down. You're allowed have liberal views but only if they're our liberal views.

osarusan

What an idiotic thread.

mikeybhoy

Greatest sportsman of all time

nachouser

I remember the days when Agassi dared to wear coloured clothing. Good times.

TheRepentent

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852615#Comment_120852615

Yeah before him , the serbs were only know for being very very good at digging and filling mass graves.

seenitall

I hated that a good friend of mine tried to get me to change my mind as to getting vaxed, he tried and tried until I said that’s enough and to back off. I hate being nagged and cajoled, if you try that with me it will have the exact opposite effect, and I had even told him that before he just carried on persisting. That really kinda soured that friendship for me, and we’d known each other for 25 years, good friends. Even when you consider, ok he was just trying to push me into doing the right thing (as he saw it), I still do not accept the “pushing” part in a friendship, it should have no part in it. It is disrespectful to not accept someone’s decision on their body or their considered choices, and to just try to nag them into a different direction. My body, my choice. That’s always been and will always be what I live by. How can you possibly know me for 25 years and still think that kinda behaviour is acceptable to me?? I would never even think of disrespecting someone like that, whatever their choices may be. (Still peeved about it! :D)

Various people’s personalities really did reveal themselves with that vacc issue. Most of it not for the better.

L.Ball

Time to move on and forget about the time the world was locked down over a coronavirus and the population was coerced into taking multiple shots of experimental vaccines that were rushed through without proper testing, sure our best and brightest told us it was in our best interest, good enough for me.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852627#Comment_120852627

None of the doomsday anti vax conspiracies came true 🤣

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852627#Comment_120852627

Actually thought he was an arsehole long before COVID began, as did many.

Will never take away from his sporting achievements however. Probably one of the greatest sportspeople of all time behind Michael Phelps.

Still doesn’t take away from the weird take you have in using Djokovic to talk about COVID vaccines and gloat while everyone else shrugs their shoulders and gets on with their lives.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852720#Comment_120852720

Michael Phelps would like a word.

It’s not even close either.

Jim_Hodge

It's sad, and a bit worrying, that people still can't move on with life.

Tork

Oh lovely. As if having a forum of your own where you can endlessly repeat yourselves isn't enough, now you're infesting the Current Affairs forum with this repetitive shite.

seenitall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852814#Comment_120852814

I think it is sadder what happened to one of my long-standing friendships in the manner it did, for example. So I admit, I used the thread to get it off my chest, so to speak! :D

As for Djokovic, I like him because I like resilience, tenacity and an eff off attitude. He’s not always the pinnacle of classy behaviour. But he also doesn’t come across as arrogant or nasty (unlike some other high ranking tennis players). It seems to me that, for whatever reason, the more unbeatable he is, the more disliked he is. Generally speaking.

Markus Antonius

Not only is he the greatest tennis player to ever live - the notoriety he gets from this allows him to ascend censorship. The very censorship that certain fringe political ideologies need to survive.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852979#Comment_120852979

Ok.

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852798#Comment_120852798

None of the doomsday predictions from many medics came true either, you know. Those medics who wanted five year olds masked in school only eighteen months ago

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852811#Comment_120852811

Djokovics longevity pIsses all over Phelps

the Serb has far the superior legacy

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120853007#Comment_120853007

Exactly - the precautions worked

PowerToWait

This guy is great at tennis so the vaccine is a scam.

Anti-vaxxer, Joe Rogan loving, Jordan Peterson quoting, free thinkers, have to be the kings and queens of non sequiturs. Moronic doesn't do it justice.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120853013#Comment_120853013

Still one major honour missing from his impressive cabinet that all of his major rivals of his generation have won.

He has another chance in Paris, though.

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852579#Comment_120852579

Of sigma males, yes

Ten of Swords

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852646#Comment_120852646

I like how you party Xander!

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