Expelled from Australia: the Web makes fun of “Novax Nondjokovic”
The vaccine debate is often said to be so tense that it resembles a “religious war”. The metaphor is fully justified by the surprising words of Srdjan Djokovic, who compared his son Novak to Jesus Christ. The case concerns the participation of the tennis phenomenon Novak Djokovic toAustralian Open, for which, however, it was necessary to prove that they were vaccinated. The Serbian said he had a medical exemption and, amid a thousand controversies, was admitted to the tournament. Upon his arrival in Australia, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, he was first blocked at the airport and then transferred to a hotel for immigrants, before being definitively deported.
The threat from dad Djokovic and Burioni’s reply
Already during the long wait for official decisions, Srdjan Djokovic he stood out for very over the top statements, including a real threat to the authorities: “If they don’t let him go within half an hour, we’ll gather on the street.” An externalization that caused a lot of discussion, also receiving a very harsh reply from Roberto Burioni on Twitter: “If you wonder from whom the champion got the brilliant intelligence that led him first to refuse the vaccine, then to make this figure you have the answer”. The doctor then added a very mocking postscript: “It’s been an hour”.
The insults to the Australian Prime Minister Morrison
Djokovic Senior he then lived up to his initial purpose, albeit with a bit of delay, given that his son’s fans actually took part in a street demonstration in Belgrade. The war continued on the verbal level, given that in a fiery press conference he defined the Australian premier Scott Morrison a “shameless” who attacks the “pride” of the free world and considered what was happening to his son as “a political struggle that has nothing to do with sport”. In a crescendo of tones probably worthy of a better cause, Srdjan Djokovic, he described his son as “Spartacus”, a “libertarian world leader” and also “an idol, the light at the end of a tunnel” in front of “the Western political oligarchy” who “believe the world is his”.
“They want to crucify him like Jesus Christ”
Finally, he compared his illustrious heir to “Jesus Christ, who crucified “, arguing that some are now trying to” crucify, humiliate and bring their son to his knees “. All decidedly very exaggerated, while acknowledging the sporting greatness of the tennis player and also his right to make the choices he considers best for the His perplexity about vaccines is also known, to the point that ironic memes run after each other on the Net, such as those that distort his first name in “Novax” and surname, after exclusion from the tournament, in “Nondjokovic”. The jokes that compare the tennis champion to the famous are also very popular Marquis del Grillo interpreted by Alberto Sordi, whose famous line read: “Because I know ‘me and you are not a c ….”.
Macron: “The example is Mbappè, who is committed to vaccinations”
But are athletes to be judged only for their deeds in their respective disciplines or also for what they do off the pitch? The dilemma is old, as shown by the disputes over the “genius and recklessness” of football aces such as Diego Maradona or George Best, but French President Emmanuel Macron has a very clear idea about this. In the midst of the discussions on the Djokovic case, the French president wrote an article for the famous sports newspaper “L’Equipe” in which he praises the footballer Kylian Mbappè “for his commitment also outside of sport, in particular in favor of vaccines and against violence”. “Mbappè has chosen the risk of commitment to vaccinations, in communion with the sentiment of the country. He is fully aware of his role and the strength of his actions”, added Macron, who has publicly made a commitment to “break the boxes ai no vax “.
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