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Tennis star Novak Djokovic is spending a key religious holiday, Orthodox Christmas, in an Australian detention hotel working on his challenge against deportation. Attention is moving away from his vaccination status onto how he wound up in this situation.

Thank you dear people, all around the world for using your voice to send love to my husband,” she posted on Twitter.

Djokovic has been a vaccine skeptic, and has declined to acknowledge if he’s had shots for COVID-19, but there can’t be any doubt he traveled to Australia, arriving just before midnight on Wednesday, believing his paperwork was all in order. But when he landed at the airport, the Australian government’s Border Force canceled Djokovic’s visa, saying he “failed to provide appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements.”

Tennis Australia said Djokovic’s request for an exemption “was granted following a rigorous review process.” Neither Tennis Australia nor Djokovic revealed the reason he sought an exemption.

 

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dumbass. they should deport him

Aw, anyways

I guess you could say he's 'Novax' Djokovic..

Well, that was a personal choice. No one told him to take his unvaccinated self to a country without making sure he had the correct information.

weird 🤣🤣

Lol

If only..he had taken the JAB...lessons to be learnt about vaccine hesitancy and vaccine stress😏

The swing from 'throw away the key' to 'I have planned vacation' never fails to surprise

It’s hilarious that people feel bad for this or any other wealthy entitled jerk. FYI he can leave whenever he wants.

Lol. He's in the 'find out' stage of 'fuck around and find out.'

Does anyone think he’d be in a church today if he wasn’t barred up in a hotel? Please.

Couldn't careless, this is not even a story. Just tell him to gtfo and leave, no sympathy for Novax.

Karma for Djoker

Sucked in….. he’s just a flog

Great piece, as usual. But several typos in there.

Boo hoo. Who cares if he’s plays a form of sportsball? Who cares how good he is? Why do those things enter into the equation at all? Get a shot or get out. Nobody should be exempt. Especially stupid sportsball players

Absolutely no sympathy. If the holiday was that important to him he would’ve stayed at home. Alternatively, he could’ve flown back home when he found out that he had the wrong visa to enter the country.

He applied wrong visa...sorry but...now concentrate on the refugees stuck in that hell hole

It’s not detention if you can fly home

He's an arrogant ass, not a martyr. novaxdjokovic

He's choosing to stay until his case is heard in court. He can leave Australia at any time.

He had months to organise his status . The tennis player is free to go home anytime he likes . When you’re a smart arse eventually you will trip up on your own hubris

Djokovic, eg; Jesus, is in detention because the Australian government completely and utterly fuked up. Our PM lies like Trump, just ask the French PM.

very biased article. he is well he deserves to be

Imagine you demons would have spent a fraction of your time, covering this turd, by addressing the torturous concentration camps of the Australian government.

He's finding out the law can apply to him too

Happy orthodox I like to make the pandemic more complicated and worse for everyone in the world so f you holiday yay to that guy

He ended up in this situation of his own doing. Send him back.

You can’t believe unvaccinated people about the virus 🔺🔺

Appalling! Honestly. What terrible treatment! He deserves better.

He's an antivaxer. That's how.

Thanks Djokovic

Play stupid games….Win stupid prizes. Playing the smallest fiddle for him and his crocodile tears😒

Bringing religion into it is quite desperate.

He was issued an exemption by the tennis organisers to play in the competition. However this did not meet the standard required for a visa. Did not have medical proof to support exemption from being vaxxed. Two vaccinations and he would have been fine

Guess he fucked around. Now at the 'finding out' stage.

Or he could have just gotten the vaccine.

I am sure many more Orthodox people are in much worse “hotels”.

How many others in Australian detention have also missed important religious celebrations, I wonder & where is the outrage for those people?

😂

O, boohooh. He should have known the restrictions for each country he travelled to, unvaccinated! Just like the rest of us!

Fix y'all's spelling errors man, c'mon.

F**k around and find out, Novak

He 'got into' this situation by claiming an exemption that isn't valid in Australia, and then playing the 'entitled' card which, as he's finding out, really doesn't wash with Australians.

He wound up in this situation because he believed it was his godgiven right as the tour's top ranking player, he could get away with turning Melbourne into the fifth stop of the Adria Tour fiasco he doomed just about singlehandedly.

womp womp

He wound up in this situation because of his vaccination status ffs. It’s not that complicated.

Hi everybody. Please read my Twitter before insulting me! I ask out of need. I look after a handful of stray cats in the neighborhood, feed them, and it became difficult for me to cope on my own. I am a pensioner. (my little $250 a month). maybe you can help? Maybe RT. Thank you!

We know how lol

His visa didn't meet requirements, and now he wants to fight about it. He put himself in this mess. No one else.

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