News from Melbourne

[Bayleaf]

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Yep, that was nearly hot chocolate sprayed all over the keyboard!

[Liz]

Will he be allowed to play at Roland Garros or Wimbledon one wonders?

[niemeyjt]

Roland Garos - hopefully France will require vaccination of visiting sports stars as well as domestic ones - in which case unless he gets a recognised double vaccination or a fake vaccine certificate probably not.

source: https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/12/ ... in-france/

Wimbledon - there are already "exemptions" for sports stars and anyone else too important to have to follow the rules that the plebs have to follow - so probably he will be allowed.

[Pachapapa]

https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news ... mal-health

Hard not to be sympathetic to Novac's endorsement of environmental protests in Serbia. Not surprising really if Austnazian mining interests not sympathetic. For example, let's blow up an ABO cave sanctuary.

[niemeyjt]

Australia: No one can come without vaccination!

Djokovich: I understood No 1 can come without vaccination!

[Char]

and so it continues ..... https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/ten ... 93716.html

[tagh]

Seems he missed overflying the latest volcanic eruption in the Pacific; pity, he might have enjoyed it. By the way who pays his ticket home?

[Pachapapa]

Cor blimey.
14 hour time difference in CETZ.
Antipodal madness.
Why don't they work a night shift!
Less chance of catching Covid.

[Pachapapa]

https://enapp.chinadaily.com.cn/a/20220 ... bcad0.html
Serbian President at crucial moment expressed his Djokovic sentiments in the Chinese Press.

[RobertArthur]

This comes as no surprise: Serbia is under the pressure of Chinese investments. Tit for tat: the West is concerned that China suppresses freedoms? We are also concerned......