The No 7 seed made the accusations in a magazine interview released on Thursday
used by Australian immigration authorities to house non-citizens, including asylum seekers, back in 2022 when they cancelled his visa during a legal battle over the player’s vaccination status.But in a interview with GQ magazine that was released online on Thursday, Djokovic has now claimed that medical tests in Europe appeared to show he had been “poisoned”.: “I had some health issues. And I realised that in that hotel in Melbourne I was fed some food that poisoned me.
However, local media insisted on asking for an explanation, only for tournament officials to try and shut them down with Emma Raducanu waiting to come into the room for her own press conference. “Look, the GQ article came out online yesterday. I think it’s a February issue, so it’s coming out in print version,” said Djokovic. The magazine is due on newsstands on 28 January.
Experts have suggested that the food with the highest concentration of mercury are fish and shellfish, but Djokovic eats a vegan diet, and lead exposure in Australia is very low due to the reduction of the metal’s use in plumbing and paint.
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