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KokoroAkechi posted...

If you are a sports profession you have a certain obligation to interviews etc, especially if you are at a big event like the French Open. Like at the Superbowl im sure most of the players dont want to do press day but they do. They have to. Imagine if Lebron James did this, no one would give him a pass.

Regardless of the circumstances of Osaka and how much I feel for her, she could not have expected to be able to have her cake (play in the open) and eat it (not do interviews).

Except she didn't expect a pass? There's a fine for a punishment and she took it. When they threatened to DQ her instead, including for the future, she withdrew - and she did so cordially in a statement acknowledging what she could've done better, commending good journalists, and apologizing.

All the while media's been demonizing her, and the French Open itself publicly uses other athletes presence to throw shade at her in an unbelievably petty tweet directed at someone admitted struggling with depression and mental health issues.

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