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> Sorry - it's only tennis Real question is why are the Australians running an international tennis competition in the first place?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> Sorry - it's only tennis
Real question is why are the Australians running an international tennis competition in the first place?
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- ls15 5y agoIn a country that currently has rules that exclude the current world No. 1...
- gertrunde 5y agoI'd imagine the same reason why anyone runs an international tennis competition? Although in this case at least they've been doing it for 117 years... so they do have precedent on their side.
- xienze 5y agoI think the parent comment’s question is more along the lines of “if Australia is so deathly afraid of Covid, why are they hosting an international sporting event at this particular time?”
- gertrunde 5y agoAh, I see, that does make a bunch more sense!
- mdoms 5y agoThey're taking suitable precautions, such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated That's not what they're doing, which is the whole point of this story and controversy. But anyway a tennis competition should be the very bottom of the list of anyone's priorities.