Russian flags banned from Australian Open

The display drew a sharp rebuke for organisers from the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, and Tennis Australia has now announced that Russian and Belarusian flags will not be allowed at Melbourne Park for the rest of the tournament.

Somewhat bizarrely, organisers initially decided spectators could bring the two nations' flags in, but displaying one has been deemed causing"disruption"."Our initial policy was that fans could bring them in but could not use them to cause disruption. Yesterday we had an incident where a flag was placed courtside.

North Korea style freedom.

Probably the guy in the Putin shirt at the Ukrainian woman’s match. Zoom in on Putin with devil horns. It wasn’t entirely innocent.

They should ban Israel, India and China flag aswell since theyre doing the exact same if not worse just not to white people

Fecking disgraceful I would never set foot that country they are a disgrace

What about Israeli flags?

what putin is doing in Ukraine is disgusting, but the Russian people are very little say in it and are not responsible for it, this is just wrong

isnt that racist?

Them kangaroos are one trouble making corrupt continent. They showed true colours for two years of covidFlu. They are country based on racism and are as backwards today as they were 100 years ago.

Totally correct....unalive Pooptin now......

Why?

Ridiculous! Does this apply to American, Israeli, French, uae, saudi flags etc Ironic their colonisers flag is in the Australian flag 🤦🏻‍♂️

Did they ban the American flag or the British flag for there illegal war in Iraq which killed up to one million people

Yes. They should still ban that Djockovic too.

Did they ban Ukraine flag also ?!

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