Advantage Spartacus

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Novak Djokovic and his father, Srdjan in 2017

This morning.

Via BBC:

Novak Djokovic is not being held captive in Australia, a top official says, as the men’s world number one tennis player faces deportation over Covid vaccination rules.

“He is free to leave at any time that he chooses to,” Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said.

The Serb star remains in immigration detention in Melbourne after being denied entry on Wednesday.

A court challenge is due on Monday, a week before the Australian Open begins.

Now more uncertainty surrounds the schedule of the tournament that Djokovic has won nine times. A 10th win would see him become the men’s most successful player, with 21 Grand Slams.

ABC News is reporting that Czech player Renata Voracova also had her Australian visa cancelled on Friday and is being detained in the same immigration hotel.

Novak Djokovic visa: Australia says tennis star not being held captive (BBC)

Meanwhile…

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55 thoughts on “Advantage Spartacus”

  1. Kdoc

    “My son is in Australian captivity …”
    Christ on a bike, someone should tell Srdjan that his son is not in the same league as Nelson Mandela.

    1. Kali

      So you can only complain if you’re in a Mandela type situation? All other forms of captivity are grand so

        1. Johnny

          Please go home,please you’re ruining tennis,it’s on it’s last gasps as is,just go now,quietly with whatever dignity you have left,take your loud hysterical hyperbolic trashy dad with you,.

          Wheels up,where to Monaco,Monte Carlo or Marbella,oh to be a oppressed ball hitter.

    2. theo kretschmar schuldorff

      Peng Shuai’s thoughts would be interesting. If she was allowed to express them

      1. SOQ

        Given the monies involved, he would have signed a contract to play- in which case he cannot just leave. They will have to deport him.

        Of course all of this could have been sorted out in advance, but they want to punish him for exercising his right to bodily autonomy.

        Australia really has gone down the plug hole.

        1. Cian

          I’m no legal expert, but I imagine that there would be a standard get-out clause relating to attendance being dependant of being issued a visa.

          1. SOQ

            Visas are issued in advance. I doubt if a contact would have been signed without one. It looks like the Australian authorities changed their mind at the last minute?

          3. Reasonable Commenter

            It’s completely stupid and inept, and reassuring in a way, that other nations administrators are even more useless than ours, it gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside. According to the Serbian envoy on the radio now, the Australians issued a medical exemption visa to Djokovic months ago. Also, he said, Djokovic gave a lot of money to Oz a few years ago when they had wildfires etc. How dumb would you have to be to do this to him now.

  2. bisted

    …phew…got to the last line…who knew my godlessness would save me from finding common cause with a ratlicker…

  3. Johnny

    ….tennis players worldwide look away aghast at another obnoxious loud tennis ‘dad’.
    Not that it was exactly enjoying a rebound,empty desolate courts everywhere.

  5. Duncan Wheeler

    Go on Novak, you the man. Take no sh*t from those neo-fascist Aussie government types. Camps for the unvaccinated, echos from a horrible past. Why whould an athelete take something that may cause clots or heart problems, when being as fit as he is, the virus would be unlikely to cause any lasting harm?

    3. George

      They don’t want him to take a vaccine. They wan’t him to leave as he applied for a medical exemption he wasn’t eligible for.

  6. scottser

    so it seems that djokovic applied for and received his exemption based on a prior recent covid infection. if it was an irish tournament, he would be eligible for a recovery cert and could crack on with playing over here. in australia, recovery from covid infection doesn’t make him eligible for entry into the country. whatever about each country being able to make its own border rules, the inconsistency in response to covid is the space where the extremist bullshit lives.
    djokovic has now gone from tennis dude to either a caped superhero fighting for our rights or a ratlicking conspiraloon there to cough all over australian children in the space of a week. he’s obviously neither, and i absolutely resent being forced to pick sides in an argument where a very simple administrative solution could bring some common sense.

    1. Reasonable Commenter

      It’s not bullpoo at all Scottser
      There is no consistent way to establish the level of antibodies an average person has after contracting the virus.

      2. SOQ

        Anti bodies are only useful once the virus has entered the body and last for a relatively short period of time. T Cells are way more important and if SARS1 infections are anything to go by, are life long.

        Dr Peter McCullough’s- Dr. Fauci, please listen to the science on natural immunity

        https://video.foxnews.com/v/6284614502001

  7. just millie

    His dad is a bit gas, isn’t he?

    Tonight they can imprison him, tomorrow they can put him in chains…

    Does he think he’s in a movie or something?

    1. Nigel

      ‘Once again, the pandemic showed how important it is to close the digital gap. Students and schools that didn’t have equipment for online learning, were left out during the global lockdown. Therefore, improving digital literacy will be a no. 1 priority in the years to come.’

      Monsters.

      1. f_lawless

        That’s part of the ‘rainbows and unicorns’ version of what’s being implemented by the technocratic elites who gather at Davos

        This article does a good job of articulating the reality:
        https://wrenchinthegears.com/2021/06/05/covid-cybernetics-and-the-new-normal/
        Some excerpts:

        “In light of the political and economic developments which have transpired since Covid-19 was first declared a pandemic, it is becoming clearer by the day how this public health crisis is being exploited to usher in a new global system of technocratic population control and compliance.

        We must wake from our stupor and identify what is shaping up to be an incredibly dystopian reality.

        I invite everyone to consider how in one fell swoop, this pandemic has served as a catalyst for the following:

        ..Accelerating a multilateral drive towards a global surveillance apparatus and control grid where digital health certificates tied to blockchain technology will be used as a cover for the biometric ID of every vaccinated person on the planet..

        ..Scaling the adoption of blockchain technology to lay the global infrastructure for Social Impact Investing, enabling global financiers to use the aggregated data harvested through blockchain’s interoperable ledger to efficiently track the impact of their investments and interventions for returns on investment..

        ..Encouraging nations to enlist in the UN’s E-Government Development Index (EGDI) through the rollout of digital IDs, which will not only enable citizens to access public e-services but more importantly determine their value as human capital by global financiers…

        ..Converting the education system into a magnet for tech interests through a soft-transition to e-learning

        ..Promoting smart-learning platforms to determine workforce preparedness for future generations who will be competing with an international workforce for remote on-demand AI assigned work in a gig economy….

        ..Conditioning children and student populations into accepting a cybernetic future, where simulation-based learning applications, virtual reality training for gig jobs and device-based education will acclimatise forthcoming generations for a life which resembles a gamified mixed augmented reality simulation where they can be sifted and sorted on blockchain and mined as data commodities on the dashboard of global financiers..

        ..Integrating children into cradle-to-career pathways and lifelong learning ecosystems so they can build their portfolios on blockchain and track their economic output to their education over time, thus serving the interests of social impact investors who can pursue plans to reform early childhood development interventions using financial mechanisms like social impact bonds and collect impact payments”

        1. Nigel

          Noting in there that wasnlt already on trend for decades. I’m perfectly on board for most of these concerns, i just can’t abide using them to pretend there isn’t a pandemic going on, or conflating legitimate, if impeferctly or even poorly executed pandemic responses, with entirely opportunistic behaviour by high-tech capitalists.

          1. f_lawless

            I don’t know how to respond to your comment other than it comes across as someone so engrossed in games of one-upmanship to the point where the subject matter is effectively irrelevant to them. Not interested.

          3. Nigel

            You don’t know how to respond to my comment except with a personal attack. Which is fine, but don’t pretend it’s anything else, or that it isn’t what you always do.

          4. Nigel

            Back to add – that wasn’t me triyng to one-up you. That was me describing a point at which we diverge. I think of the pandemic first and foremost as real and a public health emergency that was not properly prepared for despite ample warning and available experience and expertise to draw on. You think of it as a vehicle for acheiving assorted dystopian agendas, and all publc health measures are part of that agenda. I’m not sure why you think that constitutes one-upmanship. I don’t dispute that there are powerfu, often tech-driven, dystopian tendencies at work in the world and they are always prepared to take advantage of a crisis – the crash, Brexit, Trump, covid – but still t’s a profound difference, albeit as far as I can tell, since you focus so much on narratives, a culture-war type of difference, which is frustrating but typical. Perhaps you think I am ‘one-upping’ our narrative with one of my own? That’s a dangerously limiting way of dealing with the complexities of the world.

        2. Reasonable Commenter

          That’s bleeding deadly
          fair play to the global elites for taking all the hard work out of life

  11. Shitferbrains

    No matter what you think of him, the lack of compassion for Djokovic on here is quite unpleasant. The guy has devoted his life to tennis, made incredible sacrifices to reach the top and now finds himself fupping hell it’s no good I can’t keep my face straight ha haaaa you @#$-

  12. Free Stayto

    “My son is in Australian captivity …”

    A phrase that many an Irish mammy uttered throughout the annals of our struggle for freedom. In fairness, there is no shame in being deported, even if you haven’t wrecked a rental apartment with your fellow UCD students or been busted on Bondi for being out of it at 2 in the afternoon and wearing a Mayo shirt.

  13. V aka Frilly Keane

    I have to say
    I’m loving this story

    It has everything
    Sport, Superstars, Egos, Big Money, Sponsors Agents and famous Fans,
    Politics, Government Level and Local lads, all pushing their weight around,
    Regulation and Competition rules and whatnots,
    World Media across all the platform types and genres
    Protests, Candles, a Mammy, and a Daddy
    Every variety of #Trending tool and spin

    and now a lecture on Human Rights from Belgrade

    may it continue ’till the Championship Season throws in

    1. Reasonable Commenter

      Still not half as much fun as the gridiron or the darts, sorry

      Speaking of which, what did you make of the indoor gaelic the week?

    1. Free Stayto

      Daddy sounds like he’s served too – at Sbrenica. Any wonder these Nazi scmucks aren’t in the EU 12 years after their application to join. Clinton had the right idea. Bomb it.

          1. bisted

            …modern day Serbia has seen the revisionist Chetniks rewriting history of resistance to the nazis to suit their agenda of communist resistance…the Croats were always nazi collaborators…how Tito held it all together was amazing…

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