This year’s Wimbledon tennis competition has been spoiled by the blatant politicisation of sport through self-serving geopolitics, resulting in the Ukrainian star Elina Svitolina refusing to shake the hand of her vanquished opponent, Victoria Azarenka due to her Belarusian nationality.
It was a sorry sight to behold. I believe it was made more painful by the fact that it wasn’t Svitolina’s innocent choice to be so unsporting, but rather the result of a nefariously persistent campaign by the Nato-aligned Western powers to mark tennis players from Belarus and Russia as outcasts.
Svitolina has dished out exciting sound bites to the Western press, saying things like “Russian and Belarusian players should not have been allowed to participate”, and praising the “kind-hearted” British tennis authorities for covering all the costs on behalf of the Ukrainian players.
To her full credit, Azarenka kept calm in the wake
