It’s not going anywhere but I would think Korea would be next in line
Definitely the North part of it
Too farkin hot to play tennis in Singapore.
Would need to take up Phlipp’s idea and make tennis a winter sport and hold it in Singapore inside on an ice skating rink.
Would need a lot of ice…
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It’d certainly remove all the faffing associated with Visas and the like. You reckon someone is lying on a declaration to enter North Korea?
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Exactly. Novak would never want to go there, or he would go there and throw in the towel after the first set.
Geez. Sounds like the Victorian government was doing something to me. At least Djokovic thought so. Maybe they shouldn’t have done all this stuff if they had nothing to do with it? Why do it if it wasn’t needed? And if his test is now possibly faked. Shouldn’t they be reviewing the approval? Its just an approval for nothing I suppose.
**DJOKOVIC:**And so I have provided all my PCR, positive, negative tests, my antibodies to them and some additional information and then they have sent it to further to the Victorian independent medical panel, Victorian state government, independent medical panel.
**DJOKOVIC:**And they have reviewed it with their own Tennis Australian medical panel and the Victorian state, so then, as a result of that I was granted to have, to access Australia with a medical exemption permission. That’s the whole story basically. And I am checking if there is anything else in regards to the government, federal government, but as I had understood from before, the Victorian state government needs to approve. So, they need to approve, it’s was basically not up to Federal Government when it comes to my granted access to Melbourne and to Victoria.
INTERVIEWER: That’s absolutely fine, but the thing is like you [inaudible] come to Australia and it is pretty much governed by federal government.
DJOKOVIC: Alright. OK so. No we did not get any emails from the federal government.
DJOKOVIC: I mean, I am really failing to understand what else do you want me to provide to you. I have provided all the documents that Tennis Australia and Victorian government has asked me to do in the last three/four weeks, this is what we have been doing.
My agent and I have been in a constant communication through my agent with Tennis Australia and Victorian state government, the medical panel. Whatever they asked us to do – this is their set of rules that they have provided so they have allowed to have the medical exemption for the Covid vaccination. I applied, they approved, I just really don’t know what else do you want me to say.
NTERVIEWER: Previous infection with COVID-19 is not considered a medical contraindication for COVID-19 vaccination in Australia.
DJOKOVIC: What I mean that’s sorry to interrupt but that’s not true. I mean this is what the independent medical panel of Victorian state government has stated explicitly that if you have recovered or if you had the positive test of coronavirus and negative test of coronavirus in the last six months and you have a sufficient amount of antibodies, you’re considered to be part of the process of getting a medical exemption. That’s how I got it.
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The one and only time many of us agreed with Barnaby Joyce.
part of the process, in djokovic’s own words, not ‘got the exemption’ if youre going to dig at least dig in the right direction
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lol at you quoting Joker as evidence
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I’ve been there during a Grand Prix.
That event activates all of Singapore.
Plenty of marketing situations. Whether that’s Garden by the Bay, the Marina, the shopping strip just out of the centre, it definitely has the capability to move that many people around the country with ease in comparison to Melbourne which has (insert sporting related thing near the city).
The biggest problem with Singapore will be timing and climate.
But they have the economy and all the infrastructure to hold a Grand Slam event.
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tennis isn’t played in cars, so we should have gundams build to play tennis. dont at me.
Howard Stern has slammed Novak Djokovic, blasting his refusal to get the vaccine
Shame Shame Shame. Novak !.
Oops. wrong Shock Jock.
Just get the jab, cocko.
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As long as you don’t chew gum or have long hair (for a bloke).
Under Victorian conditions, the Joker wouldn’t have been allowed to enter the arena or play without a medical exemption.
If he had not fortuitously tested +ve he would not have secured an exemption acceptable to the Vic Govt.
He would not have travelled.
The evidence submitted for the TA process involving two panels should have been credible, although it was noted that it was not up to the panels to verify the evidence.
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So Joker is lying about the Victorian government and TA convincing him to get on the plane?
He’s such a liar. I guess it was the Feds who convinced him.
He’s always lying.
Rules that should be enforced universally
He didn’t fill in his own forms, he has no idea what is going on, he just travels places and does things and his assitants do all the paperwork.
The Vic Gov didn’t approve anything and wouldn’t sponsor him to come. Maybe read more than Joker who has proven to have lied about everything so far, so much so that his own Government is now investigating him.
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Either he or TA is lying about the Victorian Government wanting him here.
The medical panel they set up was just to give independence to the decIsion.
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Border Force policy changed while Djokovic was on flight
The grounds stated for Djokovic’s original cancellation were that the Australian government did not accept a valid medical exemption from the Victorian government.
As explained by former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration Abul Risvi on the 7.30 program, “Until and including the fifth of January, the policy was that Border Force would accept exemption medical certificates from state governments, such as the Victorian state government, at face value … [on] the sixth of January the policy changed.”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked about the exemption prior to Djokovic’s arrival.
“That is a matter for the Victorian government,” he said. “They have provided him an exemption to come to Australia, so we then act in accordance with that decision, and that’s been happening for the past two years.”
It is also on the public record that prior to January 5 at least one other player and an official had flown into Victoria with the same exemptions.
After January 6 they were arrested and deported with Czech player Renata Voracova, who is deciding if she will now sue Tennis Australia for costs
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