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grow upBrilliant. Hope his appeal fails.
Yeah once the Aussie PM weighed in he either had to make his exemption reason public if he had a genuine one or they’d never let him in. Easy political win with zero downside. Open court smash for them.
please. I get that you're a fan of the guy but take a step-back and try and view this without the bias.The "down under" revealing it's true nature.
A Penal colony.
A Penal colony.
the memes are brilliant.Of course they did. With 15% interest rate.
It's just a private matter and Nole won't talk about it
So am I right in saying the reason it’s been revoked is he failed to show evidence of a reasonable medical exemption? Proving what most people in this thread have been saying about him?
Could of all been avoided no doubt he'll paint himself as the victim.
So exactly what most people here are saying.
I usually like Djokovic but this is deserved. No one should get special treatment. Will be interesting how this season goes. Judging from Macron's words today I can see RG beeing only for vaccinated players too. If Nole wants to play some slams this year he should just get the jab and stop with this nonsense.
I'm assuming you need to be fully vaccinated for entry into Australia so he surely can't even get two doses in the next two weeks?
As much as I like him as a player, serves him right for being a bit of a silly sausage.
I wonder if his PR guy is secretly a Nadal fan. You’d struggle to make this as big a PR disaster as he/his team has. He could have tweeted and not mentioned exemption, could have tweeted “coming to Aus, can’t wait, love it there, great people” but..
Tweet a smiley pic… “hny, hope you’re healthy, I’m coming to Aus on a technicality. Wish me luck ” (tone deaf)
“No, I won’t say if I’m vaccinated”
“no I won’t tell you if ive had covid”
“no, i Won’t say what the technicality is”
Dad threats
Appeal
He‘ll either lose (I’m assuming Aus know their own rules) or win and get dogs abuse.
or he could have had two teeny tiny jabs that hundreds of millions of people including kids get.
Is it not linked to them applying for the wrong visa? If they applied for the correct visa they wouldn't have had such grounds to interrogate him?
Or just shows that the process Tennis Australia followed wasn't robust enough?
What the Health Minister said was that it was cancelled because he failed to provide appropriate evidence following a review of the exemption that was provided. I don't think applying for the right type of visa here would help. It appears that his grounds for appealing under the "medical exemption" criteria did not quite work out.
Per BBC “Djokovic is due to play in the Australian Open, after being exempted from vaccination rules.
But his team had not requested a visa that permits medical exemptions for being unvaccinated.”
That could be a mistake or it could be they wanted to be let in on a more standard VISA and deliberate. Surely not.
The Victorian Government provided him with an exemption.
The commonwealth Government at the border has refused his application and said his evidence is not sufficient.
I think?
Who cares what some random source is claiming, I mean the entire reason he was rejected was that it looks like the medical exemption was bogus/insufficient.
Serbs him right.
Well, whatever happened, all a bit of shambles from the Australian officials.
'Border Security: Australia's Front Line' in for a juicy series.
Yeah, despite having the longest continuous lockdown in … the world (?), I can’t believe they didn’t let him into their country just because he didn’t have the correct forms/proof of exemption for entry
The real take away is that is an absolute cnut of a flight to have to repeat 9 hours later or whatever.
Can they take a few of his previous AO titles off him whilst they're at it
He hasn't been deported yet but hopefully will be.
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He went via private jet, think he’ll manage ok.
He could get the J&J vaccine and wait two weeks, that would count.
Those saying this is politics... almost all decisions we are living through right now are due to politics - the medical experts are providing their opinions to the politicians, who are then deciding how to lockdown, rollout vaccines etc. This is no different.
Congratulations Medvedev on slam number 2.
He was gave the exemption though, surely the different parties involved should have been more aligned to prevent this situation? Why did Tennis Australia give him the go ahead without validating it with the respective government bodies.
You can get visas to countries and still be turned back by border control, even before Covid.
Of course, but he's effectively been rejected based on the evidence he was told was fine a couple of days ago.
We'll have to wait to hear more information from each of the parties but it all just seems so messy.
Yeah yeah, I know its The Mail but I was Googling to try and find sone clarity on what happened, who said what, etc..
@saivet … this may help (may)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...needs-prove-exemption-home-Australian-PM.html
@saivet … this may help (may)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...needs-prove-exemption-home-Australian-PM.html
Yes, but it's no guarantee and never has been. People get rejected at the airport even with the proper visa - and pre covid.
Especially citizens of third world countries know that granted visa does NOT mean free access. You still have to show sufficient proof to the border forces. Djokovic did not succeed in convincing the guys at the border. He should have known. Ideally rules apply for everyone.
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