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Djoker's Wild
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Rules? Where we're going there are no rules. For world number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic, it has been as startling a descent over the past three years as it was an ascent for the previous decade-plus. How did such a great sportsman, once a poor kid who grew up in a a war-torn nation hitting tennis balls or shrapnel blasted tennis courts become a caricature of the worst kind of self-obsessed, sanctimonious, hypocritical, rules don't apply to me, sports celebrity?
We'll take a look at his high-speed plummet from athlete to admire to the unfortunate non-role model he's become, and examine how his Big Four contemporaries stack up by comparison. For Novak Djokovic, it's a bad look all around even if he may well currently be the best men's tennis player ever.
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To read the background material and research for this episode, go to:
BBC - Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test
The Guardian - The unapologetic feminism that turned Andy Murray into a global icon
San Francisco Chronicle - Novak Djokovic's Olympic meltdown shows hypocrisy of his Simone Biles criticism
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