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The number one in world tennis, Novak Djokovic, admitted to meeting with a journalist when he knew he was infected with covid-19, and described it as a “Error of judgment.”
He also admitted that he submitted a false statement to the Australian government about his travel history before flying to Melbourne, although he blamed his representative.
His comments are included in a statement uploaded to his Instagram profile, in which he addressed the controversies surrounding his attempts to play the Australian Open without being vaccinated.
Despite the awards, Djokovic qualified as “disinformation” the versions that have circulated about his public appearances after the Covid-19 test. Djokovic told his family that the versions are “very painful.”
The 34-year-old athlete entered Australia last week on a medical exemption because he is not vaccinated. He received the exemption because he tested positive for Covid-19 on December 16.
But the next day he appeared without a mask at the launch of a stamp with his image and at an event for young tennis players in Belgrade.
He assured that he only received the positive result of the PCR test a day later, on December 17, after the event with the young people. He did not mention the stamp ceremony.
The player said that on December 16 he had a rapid antigen test that came back negative and then did the PCR out of “abundance of caution.” “I was asymptomatic and I felt fine, and I had not received the notification of the positive PCR until after the event,” he said.
But the tennis player admitted that attended an interview and taking photos with the French sports newspaper L’Equipe December 18. “I felt obliged to carry out the interview with L’Equipe because I did not want to look bad to the journalist, but I was careful to maintain social distancing and used a mask, except for photos,” he said. “Now I think that this was an error of judgment and I accept that I should have rescheduled this commitment,” he said.
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