Djokovic's confession: "Poisoned with lead and mercury in Australia"
The former tennis No. 1 speaks to GQ about his 2022 detention in Melbourne for failing to get a Covid vaccine: “They gave me toxic food in the hotel. I had major health problems when I returned to Serbia”
Melbourne, January 9, 2025 – “Retirement? I think more about how than when. As for when, I don’t think about it that intensely yet. How would I like to close? I guess if I were to start lose too many times, to feel an ever-increasing gap with their opponents and to have more difficulty in overcoming real obstacles in slam tournaments, then I would probably end it. I'm fine at the moment and I keep moving forward". The former world number one tennis player told GQ Novak Djokovic regarding his future.

The 37-year-old Serbian, ready to face the Australian Open, then find an adjective for each of his rivals."Roger Federer: elegance. Rafael Nadal: tenacity. Carlos Alcaraz: charisma. Jannik Sinner: skiing. The most intimidating? Nadal. He was famous for this, even today he runs in the small corridors of the locker room and literally knocks out anyone who gets in his way. They come out of the bathroom and he wants to make them feel his presence. You understand? It's a very physical message. He tells you: I'm here. I'm jumping around. I'm ready for a battle. I will be aggressive with you from the beginning. From the first moment you will hear my grunts. This scares a lot of players."
Il winner of 24 Slam titles then he talks about his Detention and deportation from Australia 2022 for the failure Covid vaccine. "It was a political question. It had nothing to do with the vaccine, Covid or anything else. It was just politics. The politicians couldn't stand my presence. For them, I think, it was less harmful to deport me than to keep me there - Djokovic's words -. When I got home I had some Health problems. And I realized that in thatMelbourne hotels They had given me toxic food. I found out as soon as I returned to Serbia. I never revealed it to anyone publicly: the tests showed that I had a really high level of heavy metal in my body. There was lead and mercury. I was definitely sick. At first it seemed like a flu, a common flu. However, in the following days, what I thought was a passing illness weakened me so much. I had various repercussions, until I was forced to undergo a series of toxicology tests."
On the Covid vaccine: "I am not in favor of vaccines. I'm not anti-vax. I am a supporter of the freedom to choose what is right for you and your body – explains Djokovic –. Therefore, I do not think it is right that someone can deny me the right to choose what to put into my body. I am a healthy person, I am always careful about my health needs and I am a professional athlete. And because I am a professional athlete, I am extremely cautious about what I take and I regularly undergo tests, blood tests and any other type of check-up. So I didn't feel the need to do it. This doesn't mean that it didn't matter to me to know that I wasn't a danger to others. Because I wasn't: I had the antibodies."
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