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I thought politics and sports don't mix?
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sweetjohn:
"USA don't give a Bleep about Africa and entire black race", another lies and propaganda enaminating from Islam. Trying to make Africa hate USA. Yet USA has done more to Africa continent than any country including your Nigeria. Yet USA is the only west and Asian country that have made a black man their president. Yet USA is the only country on the world where a lot of Africans including Nigeria are senators, governors, Mayors counselors etc. Abeg, tell us another lies.

You really need round knowledge on this, saying USA has done more to this continent.please can you mention any non colonial benefits done to this continent out of their good will.. saying blacks can become what they want in USA is like you have been attracted to only the glitters they make you see,, seriously even the black Americans disagree with you or you think black lives matter is a joke..blacks especially Africans would never be viewed equal to them..

seunny4lif:
Why don’t they ban USA, UK and France for the destruction of Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Syria.
I said this war will open up the world to see real life.

Talk with prove

OGcartel:
You really need round knowledge on this, saying USA has done more to this continent.please can you mention any non colonial benefits done to this continent out of their good will.. saying blacks can become what they want in USA is like you have been attracted to only the glitters they make you see,, seriously even the black Americans disagree with you or you think black lives matter is a joke..blacks especially Africans would never be viewed equal to them..

You since you started being aware of your environment ( or in our local parlance "since you get sense" ) when did you hear that Russia so love Africa that they sent peacekeeping force to stabilize a war turn Africa nation, or made financial donations to help an African country. Please just recall one of such.

This guy is mad!

Really

Hypocrisy of the west on blast

CrestMan:
Actually LEFTIST GROUPS!

You are correct. But my use of "rightist" here was to connote the human rights groups and those that champion the cause of humanity, not that i meant far-right. Even the human right groups are equally part of the leftist establishment anyway

seunny4lif:
Why don’t they ban USA, UK and France for the destruction of Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Syria.
I said this war will open up the world to see real life.

You people said you don't like anything from the WEST..so why the noise?

Russia, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Ethiopia & China should go and form their own and leave the WEST alone... Wetin concern light & darkness?

You hate everything WEST,yet you want to participate in what the same WEST created.. hypocrisy & foolishness= MUMUCRISY

OGcartel:
You really need round knowledge on this, saying USA has done more to this continent.please can you mention any non colonial benefits done to this continent out of their good will.. saying blacks can become what they want in USA is like you have been attracted to only the glitters they make you see,, seriously even the black Americans disagree with you or you think black lives matter is a joke..blacks especially Africans would never be viewed equal to them..

Oga Oga Oga, how many times I call you? You are an ingrate homo sapien. You are getting me upset with the kind of person you are. America is formerly and majorly a white country and they allow a black man be their president, senators, mayor's and you are still being foolish. How many times has a black become an ordinary counselor in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Irag, Iran or NK? How much has any country given to Africa apart from USA? the day you become rational and stop thinking beyond Islam the day you will become human.

No doubt racism is a bane in Western and eastern countries including Saudi Arabia. Both Asia and the west are racist against Africa. So cut the bull shit about USA because USA has done more to the blacks than any country in the world

These western thugs are rogues. They say politics must never mix with sports and will even ban countries whose governments get involved with sports but look at what they are doing.

KillerCrocodile:
The UK-based tennis tournament announced the ban in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Tennis star Novak Djokovic has called a ban on Russian and Belarusian players competing at Wimbledon “crazy”.

His critique on Thursday came a day after the oldest tennis tournament in the world announced the measure, in light of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Wimbledon, which is based in the United Kingdom, became the first tennis tournament to prevent individual athletes from the two countries from competing amid the continuing conflict.

Speaking to reporters at the Serbia Open, Djokovic said he “cannot support the decision of Wimbledon”.

“I think it’s crazy,” he added. “When politics interferes with sport, the result is not good.”

He added, however, he will “always condemn war, I will never support war, being myself a child of war … I know how much emotional trauma it leaves. In Serbia, we all know what happened in 1999. In the Balkans, we have had many wars in recent history.”

The ban means world number two Daniil Medvedev from Russia and women’s fourth-ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus will not participate in the June 27-July 10 competition.

Ian Hewitt, chairman of the All England Club, said on Wednesday, “We recognise that this is hard on the individuals affected, and it is with sadness that they will suffer for the actions of the leaders of the Russian regime.”

“The Belarusian Tennis Federation categorically condemns the decision taken by the organisers of Wimbledon to suspend Belarusian and Russian tennis players,” it said in a statement.

“Such destructive actions in no way contribute to the resolution of conflicts, but only incite hatred and intolerance on a national basis.”

The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), the breakaway players’ body launched by Djokovic in 2020, said it was committed to protecting the tennis community having heard the experiences of individuals impacted by the war.

“As major competitions throughout our sport contemplate banning Russian and Belarusian athletes, we have to reflect and understand that many of them have lost their freedom of choice and expression, due to the laws being enforced by the Russian and Belarus Federations,” the PTPA said in a statement.

“Speaking against Russian or Belarus or denouncing the invasion may result in imprisonment.”

Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina said Russian and Belarusian players who denounce Moscow’s invasion of her country should be allowed to participate at Wimbledon.

Medvedev made a plea for peace on Twitter in February while his compatriot Andrey Rublev wrote “No War Please” on the lens of a TV camera on his way to winning the Dubai title.

Sport meets geopolitics

Djokovic has not shied away from controversy during his professional career, most recently during a public standoff with Australian officials over his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The tennis player was also widely criticised in September of 2021 for dining with Milan Jolovic, a former commander of the notorious Drina Wolves paramilitary unit, which participated in the genocide against Bosniaks in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jolovic is celebrated by many Serbs for saving the life of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic during the war in Bosnia in July 1993, when Serb forces came across the Bosnian army in the Bjelasnica area just outside Sarajevo and had their tank destroyed.

With his unit, Jolovic managed to save Mladic and he was subsequently promoted to a higher rank.

A UN court in 2017 found Mladic guilty of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Before the dinner, Djokovic was also seen singing at a wedding in Bosnia with Bosnia’s Serb member of the presidency, Milorad Dodik, a well-known genocide denier who regularly advocates for the secession of Bosnia’s Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, from the country.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/4/21/djokovic-calls-ban-on-russian-tennis-players-at-wimbledon-crazy

Jokovic is a man of substance who isn't blown about by popular winds.
He knows the truth and isn't afraid to speak it or stand up for it and I admire his courage for that...it's not always easy to go against popular powerful opinions and prevail.
They allow politics in sports when it suits them and reject politics in sports when it doesn't.
Sports should never be mixed with politics and western nations should stop preaching double standards in sports.
God bless him.

Focusmind:
You are correct. But my use of "rightist" here was to connote the human rights groups and those that champion the cause of humanity, not that i meant far-right. Even the human right groups are equally part of the leftist establishment anyway

You're also right! Thank you for being civil in your communication

abobote:
Djokovic has become a rebel lately.
His opinion though

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty

Rastaramsey:
FTC jare

I dedicate am to the fallen soldiers in mauripol and other affected parts in Ukraine

Make yah all souls rest in perfect peace....


Djokovic nah one big clown


He thinks Politics shouldn't be involved in sport

But

Putin can infringe human rights anytime he wants

and he's said the right thing
Those athelete are ordinary people
Meanwhile banninh dem means a different thing entire

It a way of depriving anything Russian fot existing
Wiping russian and Belarussian cultural and altletic heritage

It sad , painful and unprecedented
Sport is diff from politic

Fight putin and his army
Not ordinary Russian with their lifes and properties
We would always belong somewhere

If i was a russian... why should anybody hates me on the international scale
Cuz I'm from russia

That's not good

Megatrix:
So why wasn't US players banned for their country attacking several other nations in conjunction with the british? They lied that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, invaded the country, removed and hanged the president but no weapons of mass destruction was found, is that not infringement of people's rights?

No,to Nairaland hypocrites,it wasn't human rights infringement cos it was done by their personal Lord and Saviour.

sweetjohn:
Oga Oga Oga, how many times I call you? You are an ingrate homo sapien. You are getting me upset with the kind of person you are. America is formerly and majorly a white country and they allow a black man be their president, senators, mayor's and you are still being foolish. How many times has a black become an ordinary counselor in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Irag, Iran or NK? How much has any country given to Africa apart from USA? the day you become rational and stop thinking beyond Islam the day you will become human.

No doubt racism is a bane in Western and eastern countries including Saudi Arabia. Both Asia and the west are racist against Africa. So cut the bull shit about USA because USA has done more to the blacks than any country in the world

You were born as black non Muslim(cos I don't know your religion)in Africa likewise I was born a Muslim here in Africa..
We both were taught our religion in the earliest stages of our lives with so much conviction that omly our respective religions is the only way to heaven,thereby making us not see any meaningful essence in other religions
We grew up loving the ways of the good life spearhead by the western or eastern world(entertainment, sports, clothing and fashion) etc

Now the breaking point, this is where we where we part ways maybe due to maturity, knowledge and enlightment or whatever you may call it.

You grew up still not liking Islam,,and there goes bombs dropping everywhere by terrorists who pointed directly to Islam as the reason they did it,I understand if I was in shoe with your kind of mentality,I would hate Islam too but lucky for me we don't belong to the same shoe size.while you kept the hatred going,I chose to love and respect everyone's choice of religion.. you rallied in full support when the USA and the west jumped in war against terrorism which seems to be the logical picture..I don't give a shit be it Saudi Arabia,Iraq Afghanistan, Nigeria, USA UK,,,I don't support terrorism, invasion or slavery,, we all know there are hidden propaganda when things like this occurs..so in your first comment when you said USA is always dealing with terrorism and Islam bla bla bla,,I just thought you should know both sides are not what or who they portray to you
You calling me an ingrate to USA or the west shows the heavy level of the chains placed on your forefathers neck, it's transmitting to you
USA has not done what other countries hasn't done before,all developed countries go to the underdeveloped ones and help them with one or two development in exchange for whatever they have to offer (China France Holland Korea Germany, turkey and even Russia)or you can mention one landmark gracious contribution by the USA that I don't know.
Regarding blacks holding political offices in the USA,of course you are not talking about someone who traveled from kano,Lagos or akwa ibom to America and just become a governor,, you of all people know you have to be a citizen for that,and it took them over a 100 years after slavery was abolished just for them to get a shot at a political offices.
You saying America is formerly and majorly white sums up your knowledge appetite,nigga go through the history books and stop rapping about things you don't know shit about..
Those countries that don't have blacks in their government (China Russia NK and the rest) already have their tribal and race heritage..they have no blacks or have you ever heard of black Chinese or black Korean or have you seen a white man in a political office in Africa.. America is just a Confederate of all race and multi European tribes not just white,,so a black citizen can run by right,it's not a privilege as you and racist colonists makes it sounds..

I end all this by telling you one of the most important teachings by Mohammed (PBUH) which says seeking knowledge is essential for every individual

excel101:
You since you started being aware of your environment ( or in our local parlance "since you get sense" ) when did you hear that Russia so love Africa that they sent peacekeeping force to stabilize a war turn Africa nation, or made financial donations to help an African country. Please just recall one of such.

I still don't get your point but here's mine
I wasn't comparing countries and their benefits to help Africa countries.
If and only if Russia has not done any of the contributions you mentioned above,then na dem Sabi o, but if you want to roll on the floor over what America has contributed,na you sabi, not me I will always be ready to clapback.
For the record, peacekeeping is done by the UN which Russia is a part of..

It's a fair decision given the nature of Russia. They have too much control over their people, and it's just a mess. Furthermore, they need to face consequences because if they don't reel in Russia now, they're going to keep pushing. This is a part of avoiding warfare where no one really wins.

frankputer:
side effect of war LOVERS

I added the bolded.

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helinues:
Crazy man Putin should have considered the consequences of his aggressive nature

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OGcartel:
I still don't get your point but here's mine
I wasn't comparing countries and their benefits to help Africa countries.
If and only if Russia has not done any of the contributions you mentioned above,then na dem Sabi o, but if you want to roll on the floor over what America has contributed,na you sabi, not me I will always be ready to clapback.
For the record, peacekeeping is done by the UN which Russia is a part of..

In life it's natural for one to be proxy to another that shows him love and cares. Though, it's not as if US, are perfect but in a presented case of 2devills, I believe US is a better one. Right from history, I grew up knowing the old Soviet Union (Where Russia broke from) leaders, to be very repressive and unfriendly.

Tsisipas has never won a grand slam before sir!

KiNg0G:
Another wimbledon for tsisipas to try add to his grandslam

dunyadgreat:
Tsisipas has never won a grand slam before sir!

my bad, medvedev won.. now a chance for the Greek king

sweetjohn:
Oga Oga Oga, how many times I call you? You are an ingrate homo sapien. You are getting me upset with the kind of person you are. America is formerly and majorly a white country and they allow a black man be their president, senators, mayor's and you are still being foolish. How many times has a black become an ordinary counselor in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Irag, Iran or NK? How much has any country given to Africa apart from USA? the day you become rational and stop thinking beyond Islam the day you will become human.

No doubt racism is a bane in Western and eastern countries including Saudi Arabia. Both Asia and the west are racist against Africa. So cut the bull shit about USA because USA has done more to the blacks than any country in the world

Chai this one don go finish.

Megatrix:
He is right, politics should never interfer with sports

Politics is practiced in every facet of human endeavours even in the family, that's why philosophy calls man a political animal

okunwaye:
Chai this one don go finish.

If they call humans, you too go come out

sweetjohn:
If they call humans, you too go come out

Sharap