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Our correspondent, guy de launey is in belgrade and has more now on the reaction from there. outrage — that's where we're at here in serbia. and we're hearing outrage both on a sporting front and on a diplomatic front. so, on the sporting front, a nice little pithy quote from the serbian tennis federation, who said that preventing novak djokovic from playing was "unacceptable for the entire sports world on the planet and contradicts the sacred olympic principles, which are well known." i must admit, i've forgotten which the sacred olympic principles are to which they're referring, but i'll t...

And fight for his title, or he gets to leave the country and be deported. our correspondent, guy de launey, is in belgrade and has more now on reaction from there. outrage, that's where we're at here in serbia. and we're hearing outrage both on a sporting front and on a diplomatic front. so, on the sporting front, a nice little pithy quote from the serbian tennis federation, who said that preventing novak djokovic from playing was "unacceptable for the entire "sports world on the planet and contradicts the sacred olympic "principles, which are well known." i must admit, i've forgotten which th...

We're at here in serbia. and we're hearing outrage both on a sporting front and on a diplomatic front. so, on the sporting front, a nice little pithy quote from the serbian tennis federation, who said that preventing novak djokovic from playing was "unacceptable for the entire sports world on the planet and contradicts the sacred olympic "principles, which are well known". i must admit, i've forgotten which the sacred olympic principles are to which they're referring, but i'll take their word for it. but there's also been a lot of political reaction, now. the leaders of serbia's political... t...

I hope that, you know, - the government, the judges hold their ground and say, "no, you don't want to get _ a vaccination and you don't want to follow our rules, . then you can't come in." "let him play!" there has been support for djokovic outside the venue where he's meant to play the australian open on monday — that's obviously if he's not deported. opponents to vaccination mandates took part in the rally and asked authorities to let the serbian compete on monday and keep alive his bid for a record 21st major title at the australian open. our correspondent guy de launey is in belgrade and...

Low and organisers hope tonight will be a celebration of the sport to come and shut out all the questions and scrutiny swirling around these games. we are back in the iconic birds nest stadium, scene of the 2008 opening ceremony, and you might be able to see the clusters of spectators being kept entirely separate from everyone involved in the games because of the closed—loop system put in place for the games due to covid, and the controversy of these 0lympics has highlighted by several countries including the uk and the us staging diplomatic boycotts over alleged human rights abuses by china...