Novak Djokovic

JenniferEccles

Oh I agree NanKate That habit of urging the crowd to applaud irritates me too!
He turns to the spectators and raises his arms up and down as if to say “Come on. Give me a round of applause. Aren’t I wonderful?”

Me too NanKate and JE.
I can't stand it when he does that and I just don't like him and his attitude. I hope Australia stand firm.

Medical exemption? For probably one of the fittest men on the planet. Doesn’t make sense. I’m also fed up of exemptions being given for celebrities, sportsmen/women and wealthy people.

NanKate

No vaccination No entry, correct decision.

I have always disliked ND when he encourages the spectators to clap for him when he is going through a bad patch. You would never see Roger Federer or my favourite Rafa Nadal stooping so low.

May the best man win.

Correct Nankate

Nadal has called him out and said that decisions (not to vaccinate) have consequences ( no entry).

I’d respect ND more if he’d owned his choice and declined to enter the competition in Australia on that basis.

It’s just been said on Jeremy Vine that Djokovic was using the excuse that he has had Covid and so has antibodies. I’m not claiming this true, but it has been mooted.
I’ve had Covid, but I’ve still had all three of my vaccinations and I’m careful when I’m out and about.

Oh I agree NanKate That habit of urging the crowd to applaud irritates me too!
He turns to the spectators and raises his arms up and down as if to say “Come on. Give me a round of applause. Aren’t I wonderful?”

Well done Australia. What an arrogant individual this man is!
He obviously thinks he is someone special, pleased he is made to,realise, no, you are not!

We haven’t seen DD2 and S iL since summer of 2019 and no idea when we will see them again.

Well done Scott Morrison for making a stance to protect his citizens and well done Macron with his, very clear message.
No chance of Boris finding his backbone for fear of being unpopular, which is more important to him regardless of the outcome during a pandemic!

I have no sympathy for Djokovic and his anti-vax stand and if he is trying to bypass Australia’s strict rules by applying for a special visa then hell mend him. I can understand that a few competitors, wheelchair users for example, have reasons to apply for exemption but Djokovic sells himself as being super fit. However, trying to be fair, if he is living with an underlying condition that means that he shouldn’t be vaccinated then it would benefit others with similar conditions to know and celebrate what can be achieved. Public sympathy would be with him if that is the case and a shambles would be avoided.

maddyone

Good job he wasn’t coming to the UK, he’d have walked straight in!

I went through my mind how Boris would have reacted.

I think you’re right there maddyone.

Good job he wasn’t coming to the UK, he’d have walked straight in!

If you go to a country you have to abide by their laws.

Don’t you just love Australia ?

Well, it's Sport isn't it.
The same rules don't apply as to lesser mortals.

We have a long wait for a decision then. I admire the stance Australia is taking, all too easy to keel over when faced with the power of celebrity status. I hope he does get deported, it may send a message out to anti vaxxers just as Macron is trying to do.

It’s not looking good for Djokovic.
He’s being held in a hotel near Melbourne airport which is used to detain immigrants, awaiting a decision on his deportation on Monday.
Good.

I noticed that Rod Laver has been wheeled out to make comments.
I had to look him up as I thought he must be dead.by now.
I ballboyed ball personed for him back in 1961 at Queen's Club.
He agreed that it is all dodgy and calls on Novak to "Come clean"

No vaccination No entry, correct decision.

I have always disliked ND when he encourages the spectators to clap for him when he is going through a bad patch. You would never see Roger Federer or my favourite Rafa Nadal stooping so low.

May the best man win.

Well done Australia. No messing about, a straight refusal. Whether celebrity or not, anti-vaxxers should find their travel and leisure pursuits unavailable to them. Why should those who have been responsible and had their jabs find their lives still curtailed by this lot?

Calistemon

In the meantime he's under guard in the airport.
Could be uncomfortable and boring.

Oh crikey. Wonder how he’s managing to get his special diet food stuff?

Most of us have willingly been vaccinated so we can all get back to some kind of normal , including long delayed trips to visit family . Those who have chosen , for whatever reason , to refuse the vaccine , should not be given rights denied the rest of us simply for being elite celebrities . They are holding us to ransom while knowingly being protected by the benefits of mass vaccine . Macron used a bit of earthy language to make it clear just how vaccine refusers were going to be the losers , and I’m very relieved that NJ has been given a clear message that accepting a vaccine is not just for losers as he seems to assume .

His coach and entourage are with him.

I wonder if Goran Ivanisevic has been vaccinated? Perhaps they'll let him in and he can play instead.

Yes his legal team is appealing.
It’s funny how so many of us use the word ‘arrogant’ to describe him, but it is how he comes across, isn’t it?

I would love to see him unceremoniously chucked out.

Meanwhile his father in Serbia is up in arms about it!

Will he still be there in the airport, I wonder?

Like Tom Hanks in The Terminal?

Calistemon

In the meantime he's under guard in the airport.
Could be uncomfortable and boring.

My heart bleeds…..

As long as they let me in in March …

Good for Australia! Their decision sends out the right message: the law applies to everyone.