A specific move regarding the situation in which the best tennis player in the world Novak Đoković , who has been detained in Melbourne for the fifth day, was withdrawn today by the President of the Serbian Olympic Committee Božidar Maljković.
He sent an open letter to his Australian colleague John Coates, which was published today on the OKS website and which we are transmitting in its entirety below.
” Dear colleague,
Dear sports friend,
safe I am that you, as well as the entire sports public, were shocked by the decision of the Australian administration to prevent the best athletes in the world from legal access to their territory.
Denying Novak Djokovic from playing in the Australian Open is like listening to the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger, so no one.
The political authorities of your territory have taken upon themselves the right that does not belong to them in any way, to influence the placement with their decisions tennis players on the ATP list
Although I am a lawyer by vocation, I must admit that I know better continental than Anglo-Saxon law.
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However, my legal logic eludes the understanding of the treatment that my athlete, the best tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic underwent.
If it turns out to be accurate information that my countryman is subjected to the harsh justice of Australia unlike other athletes with identical medical status, how can I characterize this situation except clearly and obviously discriminatory?
This brings us to Orwell’s sentence that “all animals are the same, but some are the same as others.”
To my great regret, I must state that a certain Jala Pulford goes so far as to say that she hopes that Rafa Nadal will win the Ozzy Open.
Is it possible that a political figure has the right to be a fan of an athlete at the same time, and directly decides on the fate of his biggest competitor.
Moreover, this person gives himself the right to express his position publicly, on all diplomatic grounds, on television.
Here in Serbia, racism is prohibited by law. As far as I know, it’s the same with you? Except, obviously in the case of Novak Djokovic.
Imagine, dear friend, that our local sheriff should arrest Jan Thorpe at the Belgrade airport, and interrogate him as a criminal for 7 hours, confiscate all his property and means of communication.
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Imagine that on his Christmas, which, unlike Catholic, falls On January 7, you forbid contact with the priest. I can’t imagine that. Not because Mr. Thorpe is a great athlete, but because Serbia is a state governed by the rule of law. In our country, such an understanding of law and justice is unthinkable.
I am more than convinced that Novak has not violated any of the positive regulations or laws in force in your country.
If Australia wishes If we consider it to be democratic and orderly in the future, it will have to either respect and consistently implement its laws, or change them in parliament.
Novak, when I know from a young age, would never have boarded a plane in Malaga and set off without first having all the necessary documents. Since I am vitally attached to Malaga, I can personally testify that there is not a single percentage chance that the Spanish authorities will allow boarding a plane for someone who does not have the documents required to access a destination.
*) I traveled to the Olympic Games in Tokyo together with Novak. Although the biggest star of those Games, he fulfilled all his administrative obligations towards our Olympic Committee and the host country flawlessly and unconditionally. No special treatment was sought or received. Novak is special only in his athletic greatness, otherwise he is a typical modest Serbian young man who helps people in need and who does not expect help when injustice is inflicted on him.
We are talking about the same Djokovic who was the first to help your country when it was hit by catastrophic fires.
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Mentioning him on his Twitter accounts some transient political phenomena will not remain permanently recorded in the history of Melbourne as Novak will remain, because whatever the final decision of your administration may be, he will remain the greatest and unsurpassed champion of the Ozzy Open.
Because of all the above, dear friend, I ask you to invest your reputation and sports authority in the defense of Olympism, legal norms and ultimately lines of humanity.
Please keep in mind that we are talking about a man who gave up gluten in ish early because he has had asthma problems since birth and whose health can be seriously compromised by both the Covid 19 vaccine and the inhumane conditions of your detention.
Every kind of help you give to a wonderful man like Novak will serve you in honor
Novak I want the spirit of Christmas to shine on his heart and that prison room where he is trapped with our greeting: the peace of God Christ is born! He is indeed born! ”, is stated in the letter.
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