Novak Djokovic, antivax? Michel Cymes’ rant about the tennis player

Invited on the set of C à Vous, Michel Cymes got carried away against Novak Djokovic. He criticizes the Serbian tennis player for serving as a counter-example for young people by displaying his anti-vaccine positions without filter.

Novak Djokovic has been making the headlines for several days. And for good reason, the world number one in tennis has been in turmoil since his arrival in Australia, where he went to play the Open tournament. Problem, the athlete not being vaccinated, he can technically neither enter the territory, nor participate in the event. He was finally placed in a detention center in Melbourne, before being “released” five days later, on January 10. A new twist erupted when the player admitted to having tested positive for Covid on December 16 (which earned him a vaccination exemption), but the authenticity of this information is today questioned and World number one participation in Australian Open increasingly uncertain, as the local newspaper Herald Sun explains. Five days before the start of the tournament, the fate of the Serbian player feeds all the discussions, including that of the plateau from C to You, this Wednesday, January 12.

Michel Cymes: “He doesn’t have to say it”

While Didier Deschamps, invited alongside Michel Cymes, took tweezers, the famous doctor of the PAF did not go dead hand on the anti-vaccine positions of Novak Djokovic. “Djokovic is anti-vaccine. He said it, and not just before the Australian Open. It is an antivax“, launches Michel Cymes before continuing:”I find it tragic that someone who represents the exemplary nature that a high level athlete should have in relation to young people openly says that he is against vaccines“If the doctor respects the athlete’s choice not to be vaccinated, he is, on the other hand, against the media coverage of his positions.”Whether he is, it’s his problem“, he says,”He doesn’t have to say it because he serves as a counter example to vaccination. “

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