Novak Djokovicin an interview with Bbcsaid he was “willing to pay the price” of do not play tournaments come Wimbledon e Roland Garros “If forced a vaccinarmi”. In the first wide-ranging interview since he was detained in Melbourne in January, Djokovic faced the question relating to the timing of his positive case of Covid in December and discussed their attitude towards the vaccine. The Serbian tennis player explains that he is not never been “against vaccinations ”, confirming that he had vaccinated as a child.
Instead, he clarifies that he “always supported the freedom to choose what to put in own body “ and insists that he does not have “enough information on the vaccine” to make a decision on the matter. The tennis number one forgets, however, that they have been administered more than 10 billion doses of Covid vaccines and about six out of 10 people globally they have had at least one. So there is an undeniable wealth of information on Covid vaccinations that the Serbian tennis player doesn’t seem to want to consider.
The winner of twenty Grand Slam tournaments was expelled from Australia last month after the government did canceled his view for its vaccination status. Djokovic had declared that he had obtained a ‘medical exemption to enter the country to play games Australian Open as he had recently recovered from Covid-19. However, the country’s immigration minister, Alex Hawke, personally canceled the 34-year-old Serbian’s visa, on the grounds that his presence could have incited a “Civil unrest” and encourage anti-vaccine sentiments. Djokovic said he hoped the vaccination requirements in some tournaments would change, adding that he wished he could “play for many more years”. But he also confirmed that he is willing to renounce to the possibility of statistically becoming the greatest tennis player of all time “because the principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or other. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as possible ”.
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