The curious case of Aljaz Bedene......was what I was writing about until the universe (the virtual one) decided to delete it all. So here's the short version.
He's the British/Slovenian tennis player who has given up on his fight to represent Britain and is now going back to being Slovenian so that he can compete in the Tokyo Olympics. The ITF said no to him playing for Britain in the Davis Cup because he had already represented Slovenia. The British LTA fought for him, they trained him, they supported him and now he's off so that he can achieve his Olympic dream.
I think of comparisons with football: the Bolivian player who was born in Paraguay and because he had played previously for Paraguay resulted in Bolivia being punished with a 3-0 "loss" to Peru, which ultimately meant that Peru qualifies for Russia; the Kosovar players who moved to, and played for, Switzerland and then wanted to move back to Kosovo when they became a Fifa country.
International federations don't make it very easy to become a sporting citizen of another country. I'm not quite sure what my point was with this story. Maybe that was it. But I was just fascinated by that Bedene story.
And I think that my long version might have been shorter than this short version.
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