Djokovic said he d had a negative lateral flow test on december the 16th and did a pcr for confirmation and didn t know he had the virus when he visited a children s tennis event the following day. he admitted that he shouldn t have gone ahead with an interview and photoshoot with a french sports newspaper two days later. our tennis correspondent russell fuller has more. there is some clarity in that he s admitting what is a breach of serbia s covid regulations by leaving his house to go to this tennis centre in belgrade to conduct this interview and photo shoot with l equipe. the mask was on for the interview, but he took it off for the photo shoot. he knew he was infectious with covid. the other part of the story, which is probably more emotive, given he was mixing with children and posing for photographs at an awards ceremony the previous day. he says he was not aware he was positive, although the positive test was confirmed at eight o clock
He did admit, though, that he shouldn t have gone ahead with an interview and photoshoot with a french sports newspaper two days later. 0ur tennis correspondent, russell fuller, has more. there is some clarity in that he s admitting what is a breach of serbia s covid regulations by leaving his house to go to this tennis centre in belgrade to conduct this interview and photo shoot with l equipe. the mask was on for the interview but took off for the photo shoot. he knew he was infectious with covid. the other part of the story, which is properly more emotive, given he was mixing with children and posing for photographs at an awards ceremony the previous day. he says he was not aware he was positive although the positive test was confirmed at eight o clock the previous evening. and on his sworn affidavit to the court earlier this
Positive for coronavirus and also his team felt at his form incorrectly for entry into australia. it is complex and we will try to break it down. novak djokovic has attempted to address what he described as claims of misinformation surrounding his testing and isolation requirements for australia. he said he d had a negative lateral flow test on december the 16th and did a pcr as confirmation and he visited a children s tennis event while he waited for the result. he said: i was asymptomatic and felt good, and i had not received the notification of a positive pcr test until after that event . but djokovic admitted he then went ahead with an interview and photoshoot with a french sports newspaper two days later. he said: on reflection, this was an error of judgment and i accept that i should have rescheduled . so admitting there that he should have isolated while positive. that s the first admission. 0n the issue of his travel declaration form, he said it was submitted by his agent o
First minority candidate to be hired so far this off-season. he replaces flores who was fired despite winning seasons in miami. flores has sued the nfl and the dolphins and two other teams over alleged hiring practices and accused owners of paying him to lose games. that is not going away as the super bowl approaches. the chinese tennis star peng shuai has emerged in beijing. she became the subject of international concern when she vanished from public view last year after appearing to make sexual assault accusations on social media against a former high-ranking member of the chinese government. she touched on the allegations in a tightly-controlled interview published by french sports newspaper yesterday, delivering her answers in front of a chinese olympic official. she echoed comments she previously made to chinese
Good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, february 7th. chinese tennis star peng swhuai is breaking his silence at the beijing olympics with a controlled interview with french sports newspaper, the first time she has spoken to an independent media outlet. she calls the allegation a huge misunde misunderstanding. and she said she deleted a social media post accusing the state official of coercing her into sex, quote, because i wanted to. in this new chaperoned interview, the 36-year-old reveals she is retiring from professional tennis. joining us now, washington post columnist and cnn political analyst josh rogin and wimbledon and u.s. open champ rennae stubbs. thank you both for being with us. i want to read what peng shuai wrote initially on social media