The Russian tennis player asks that an insubordinate journalist be banned from the Olympic Games. Medvedev had previously been annoyed by the difficult conditions on the pitch.
Daniil Medvedev’s criticism of the organizers of the Olympic tennis tournament ensures that the semi-finals on Thursday will not take place during the midday heat.
Without Roger Federer and without Rafael Nadal, the tennis tournament in the midst of the heavily loaded Olympic program has so far received little attention. World number two Daniil Medvedev changed that on Wednesday, at least temporarily. When the Russian was asked by a journalist after his hard-fought three-set victory over the Italian Fabio Fognini in the mixed zone whether the Russian athletes were stigmatized because of the doping ban on their national Olympic committee and how he felt about it, he freaked out. “It’s the first time in my career that I won’t answer a question and you should be ashamed,” he yelled at the questioner. Then he turned to an official and asked him to withdraw the journalist’s accreditation or at least exclude him from the tennis tournament.
