Anyone know what is his medical exception?
What was his tweet? Im not on Twitter?
I agree but he has always been a bit of an touchy self centered hot head, I reckon he had no official medical exemption.
I prseume he wasnt fully vaxxed either.
Im glad the ABF refused him entry and rightly so, apparently he is being held on appeal before consideration of being deported, lol
ABF dont take any lame excuses when it comes to protecting their borders.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/tennis/2022/0105/1269885-djokovic-must-prove-exemption-or-go-home-aussie-pm/
I think the tweet was the problem... he should have kept quiet...
I see Chris smalling just got his vaccine in Italy as they were going to stop him from playing, i don't agree calling anyone names like above it's his body and his choice, but there is consequences to that decision, as he is now finding out.
I guess Victoria thought that as 9-time Australian open champion, the public wanted him to play, so they fudged things around the exemption.
But they misjudged the mood, and when the mood became clear, things changed swiftly, and Scott Morrison got to flex his muscles for the win.
He's always been a bit of a wanker. That tweet he sent before getting on his flight was moronic, if he'd just kept his mouth shut he'd have been fine but he just couldn't help himself. The fact that he's desperate to be loved like Federer/Nadal despite being undoubtedly better than either of them now makes it all the more hilarious.
There always in trouble with the Aussies 😂
well, not having the vaccine has definitely cost him at least one tournament now.
i've read that peter sagan was taking that approach; it's not working out well for him either.
I would say the majority have had very little reaction bar a sore arm so that doesn't really massively hold up.
Maybe he should look at kimmich or Choupo Moting at Bayern (both refused vaccine)..both got covid and hit hard, kimmich has been out for months and only back training now.
If so, that would be a pretty dumb calculation. The risk of contracting covid, and of suffering a prolonged period of inability to perform/sub-par performance as a consequence, is vastly, vastly greater than the risk of a bad reaction to the vaccine resulting in a prolonged period of etc. He reduces his risk by taking the vaccine; he increases it by not being vaccinated.
Possible. But he's also nutty. Here's a video of him talking about changing water with positive emotion and prayer.
Ben Rothenberg on Twitter: "Let's not lose sight of how wildly anti-science Djokovic has publicly been for years. Here he was last year preaching about how you can change water with emotion. Naive, but maybe these real consequences today can be a reality check for his nonsense? https://t.co/LyJbJTvb9W" / Twitter
The English cricket team?
To be fair, there is no suggestion that Djokovic didn't have to be tested, or that he wasn't tested.
Ah Balkans in general are very anti vaccine. I have friends over there in different countries and they haven't a notion of getting the vaccine.
When I lived there, there was an outbreak of measles, and 15 children died. Imagine, from measles🙄
Someone told me, I don't know how much truth there is in it, that in communist times the governments would trial vaccines on people without their permission and that their distrust has continued on. I dunno, could be stories. Anyway, in this day and age you would think they would give their kids vaccines so they don't die from those diseases.
i have heard a theory that one reason he doesn't want the vaccine is that he's at the tail end of his career and can't afford to lose a single percentage point of performance. if he had a bad reaction to the vaccine, it could cost him a tournament or more; most of the likes of us debating on message boards can take a couple of days of or continue working if we have a bad reaction, but it's his actual career to be able to perform better than 99.99999% of the population and he may be taking the 'i'll get it when i'm retired' approach.
Johnny Depp and his now Ex wife 😉
Novax Djokovic.
Sylvester Stallone?
I entered Melbourne on 20/12 and had to get a covid test in Ireland and Oz. I had to get another today for flying back tomorrow. He’s an arrogant ass…. In my opinion. Serbia is a typical eastern dictatorship and his behaviour would be typical of Soviet type states.
Not sure if arrogance is a medical exemption.
They absolutely do and he's not the first celeb to fall foul of well known Australian approach to arrogance 😉
Apparently his deportation has been delayed due to legal appeals. Wouldn't be surprised if he is allowed to play after all.
Yes. The Victorian government's decision to give him a vaccination exemption, so allowing him to participate in the Australian Open, got a very negative response from the public, and the Federal government's decision to deny him a vaccination exemption and so cancel his visa has attracted mostly celebratory comment.
It's still a bit embarrassing, though. Both the Victorian government and the federal government are applying the same published medical criteria to what is supposed to be a medical decision (is Djokovic exempt on medical grounds from the requirement to be vaccinated), and they are doing so based presumably on the same facts and the same evidence. But they have made diametrically opposed decisions. This causes confusion, not just for Djokovic but for anyone contemplating travel to Australia. Regardless of whether someone in Djokovic's medical situation should or should not be vaccine-exempt, the answer should at least be clear and you should be able to find out what it is before you start your journey. You shouldn't have to go all the way to Melbourne Airport to find out.
I got into a back and forth on the covid forums for daring to question what's really going on here.
I've absolutely not a jot of interest in his Vacination stance or status, this is all about a wink and a nod exemption with a quite bizzare sudden medical exemption used to justify this outrageous decision to permit him compete.
I'm just astonished the organisers who facilitated these Shenanigans were completely unaware how residents of Melbourne would react given what they've had to endure with lockdowns, restrictions for almost two years. This of course not the players fault but my god its astonishingly naive of his advisors not to have understood how this was going to panout.
Bad enough the Shenanigans but then to apply for a visa that doesn't permit medical exemptions is breathtakingly stupid.
Of course the conspiracy theorists will say its all about vacinnes, his stance Blaa Blaa Blaa, I see it for what it is, Different Strokes, For Different Folks and delighted it's back fired spectacularly.
Australia is an independent sovereign nation and sets the rules for entry ... he doesn't meet the requirements and the Aussie government don't seem to bow to pressure based on celebrity and from what I can tell most Aussies support this action
ASES
Arrogant, Self Entitled Syndrome.
I don't understand. TUE ("therapeutic use exemption") is an authorisation to take a performance-enhancing substance which would otherwise be prohibited, because you have a medical need for it. The issue here is that Djokovic wants to not take a substance which is not performance-enhancing and is not prohibited; I don't see that a TUE comes into it.
I would say lie. If he wasn't on a TUE before, he was chancing his arm.
Well, if we accept what we read on Twitter, one possible explanation of the course of events is that Djokovic (or someone on his behalf) lied in his application to the Victorian government for a vaccination exemption. But of course what we read on Twitter might be wrong, perish the thought.
So he could lie?
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