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I might be a bit naive, but IMO if a country organizes an international sports event it should be held responsible to accept all qualified athletes. And if ther
by grujicd 5y ago
I might be a bit naive, but IMO if a country organizes an international sports event it should be held responsible to accept all qualified athletes. And if there is an official invitation, there should be no questions asked at the border.
Either that, or don't organize event at all if you have some concerns. Leaving to individual athletes to navigate country's ever changing visa rules is not fair or realistic. Even lawyers on Australian law subredit couldn't tell for sure how judge will rule in Djokovic's case and which laws and statutes should be taken into account and which have precedence.
This is not only about Djokovic. It's also about tennis players who received Sputnik vaccine and couldn't go to Australia Open. Yet we have numbers from few non-Russia countries which tell us it's in the similarly effective as other vaccines.
Also, I'm not talking about tennis and Australia only, too many times athletes were stopped from competing because of politics and it never seems fair.