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Djokovic Withdraws From Indian Wells Amid US Visa Row ( Denied COVID-19 Vaccine Waiver)
Channel News Asia ^ | 06 Mar 2023

Posted on 03/05/2023 8:04:27 PM PST by nickcarraway

LOS ANGELES: Novak Djokovic has formally withdrawn from the draw for the Indian Wells tournament, organisers said on Sunday (Mar 5) in an indication that the world number one's application for a COVID-19 vaccine waiver to enter the US might have failed.

The Serbian, who is one of the most high-profile athletes unvaccinated against the virus, applied to the US government last month for special permission to play at ATP Masters events at Indian Wells and Miami.

"World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the 2023 BNP Paribas Open. With his withdrawal, Nikoloz Basilashvili moves into the field," organisers said in a statement late on Sunday. The US currently bars unvaccinated foreigners from entry into the country, a policy that is expected to be lifted when the government ends its COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2023bnpparibasclosed; bananarepublic; djokovic; kiddietabletennis; losangeles; novak; novakdjokovic; tenniscovid19; thirdworldcountry; turdworldamerica; vaccine; vax; vaxx; vaxxes
We are still doing this at this point? We are stricter than Australia now?




He should have smuggled in fentanyl. He'd have had no problem.

1 posted on 03/05/2023 8:04:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Meanwhile 6,000 illegal aliens with no papers of any kind crossed the border today.


2 posted on 03/05/2023 8:08:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: nickcarraway

Our fascist Fed Gov is SICK to the core.


3 posted on 03/05/2023 8:09:30 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigersEye

You know what kills me is how people on the Left aren’t up in arms over this and COVID in general. I mean, a decade ago these people would march en masses against Big Pharma and are the ones who tout natural remedies and such.


4 posted on 03/05/2023 8:20:56 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I mean, a decade ago these people would march en masses against Big Pharma and are the ones who tout natural remedies and such.

Yep. No DPT for my kids to enter kindergarten!

5 posted on 03/05/2023 8:23:46 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: nickcarraway

The stupid people are running the country.

Did we ever learn how many people were vaccinated in the CDC?


6 posted on 03/05/2023 8:26:32 PM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: nickcarraway

yea for Djokovic! keep poking our fascist leaders in the eye.


7 posted on 03/05/2023 8:39:20 PM PST by dadfly
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To: nickcarraway

Unbelievable. Djokovic had to miss the US Open last Sept. because of the US vaxx policy and now this. England dropped their vaxx rules, France and now Australia. We are the only country with top tennis tournaments that won’t allow the unvaxxed (Djokovic has had Covid). Yet, as others mentioned for the past 2 years we’ve had 10 million people come into the country illegal who are not required to be vaxxed but the number 2 tennis player can not. World wide embarrassment. We are now a laughing stock.


8 posted on 03/05/2023 8:48:17 PM PST by vivenne
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To: mom.mom

Stupid yes. But that is a distant second to their venality.


9 posted on 03/05/2023 8:49:51 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: nickcarraway

He could just borrow a fake vax card from any number of Hollywood celebs or DC elites.


10 posted on 03/05/2023 8:52:42 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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EVERYONE now knows this Vax DOES NOT work, why in the hell are they STILL insisting, DEMANDING people take it!> Does NOTHING to stop the spread, does NOTHING to keep you from catching it, this is utter insanity!


11 posted on 03/05/2023 9:00:13 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I mean, a decade ago these people would march en masses against Big Pharma and are the ones who tout natural remedies and such.

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And they probably would have been lying. Leftists lie.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 9:05:22 PM PST by TTFX
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To: mom.mom
> The stupid people are running the country.

These psychopaths are anything but stupid, they have stolen our government and institutions without any real resistance.

If they tried this stuff 75 years ago our ancestors would have tarred and feathered them at a minimum.

We have collectively forgotten that government has been and always will be a necessary evil which requires constant oversight and intervention.

13 posted on 03/05/2023 9:52:09 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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It’s crazy! The rank and file Democrat is truly a sheeple type.


14 posted on 03/05/2023 10:09:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: nickcarraway
We are still doing this at this point? We are stricter than Australia now?

Unless you're one of the 7 million illegals who've walked over the border since Biden took office. In that, case no one's checking for vaccinations or anything else.
15 posted on 03/06/2023 4:51:45 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Meanwhile 6,000 illegal aliens with no papers of any kind crossed the border today.
.....

They’ll vote someday or have their names on fake ballots some day. Maybe as early as 2024.

Djokovic won’t.

Stolen elections have consequences for Banana Republics like us..

Priorities in the Banana Republic


16 posted on 03/06/2023 8:30:39 AM PST by delchiante
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Not The Bee . . .

The Biden administration has refused tennis great Novak Djokovic, the world’s number one tennis player, entry into the United States because he refuses to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Most people thought that the insane mandates related to the COVID vaccine were over, but this apparently isn’t the case.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/biden-administration-prevents-worlds-top-tennis-player-from-entering-country-because-he-refuses-to-take-covid-vaccine/


17 posted on 03/06/2023 8:41:30 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: TigersEye

Hurrah for tennis great Djokovic for withdrawing from the Indian Wells tournament. The outrageous demands of Pres. Biden and his dictatorial cabal are outrageous and discriminatory. Besides the so called MRNA “vaccine” does not protect from Covid as advertised. A scam!


18 posted on 03/06/2023 2:08:49 PM PST by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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“The US currently bars unvaccinated foreigners from entry into the country”

ENTRY INTO THE COUNTRY? It’s an open border. This is a finger to the American people………are those coming across the Southern border considered “foreigners”?


19 posted on 03/07/2023 11:48:38 AM PST by Toespi
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