“Who was talking when America invaded Iraq?” Wimbledon controversy creates a row in BBC interview featuring Andrew Castle and Peter Fleming


“Who was talking when America invaded Iraq?” Wimbledon controversy creates a row in BBC interview featuring Andrew Castle and Peter Fleming

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There has been a lot of chaos that followed Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players from contesting in the grand slam this year. This was a form of protest by Wimbledon following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the support provided by Belarus in the invasion. It has led to some of the top-ranked male and female tennis players being not allowed to contest a grand slam.

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The ATP and WTA decided that enough is enough and ripped this year’s Wimbledon off of its ranking points. Therefore, the interest in the tournament has already reduced. But now the decision of banning Russian and Belarusian players has entered politics and is causing chaos in world politics. There are questions being raised about the harshness of the decision made by Wimbledon and if it was or wasn’t justified.

Some people might believe that is decision is justified due to the conditions in Ukraine but one needs to think about the thousands of Russians protesting against the invasion of Ukraine and the communist regime not listening to the protesters and doing things as they wish. It is obvious that every Russian doesn’t support the invasion, therefore banning them is not fully justified.

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Wimbledon decision causes row in BBC interview

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Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players was being talked about in a conversation between Andrew Castle and Peter Fleming who were debating if the decision was harsh or not.

Former British No.1 Andrew Castle said that the ATP and WTA were “childish” for ripping off the ranking points from this year’s Wimbledon. He said, “I think the ATP and WTA have failed to see beyond their own nose on this, They might say and they do say that they’re defending the integrity and fairness of their ranking points and that nobody should be judged on what passport they hold and be held accountable for their government actions. I understand that. It is unfair and discriminatory to Russian and Belarusian players. But we have a couple of guests from Ukraine. They’re from Marepol, living with us now.”

Seven-time doubles grand slam champion Peter Fleming was listing to this and brought up the topic of the United States of America invading Iraq, “It’s a very nuanced situation and to say there’s propaganda only on the Russian side is not true because we hear that Putin is the antichrist and all these things are horrific and I’m not excusing whatever is going on there,” he said. “But a lot of things have gone on. Who was talking when we invaded Iraq?”

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