Italian Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi issued a stark apology to Jannik Sinner after no Italian delegation was present to watch the tennis star’s Wimbledon victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abodi told Gazzetta dello Sport: “How did I experience Sinner’s Wimbledon victory? With great emotion, from a distance, because, unlike so many other times, this time I didn’t go. Even a minister sometimes has to stop, needs to stop, to spend a day with his family.<\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing that the Italian institutions are absent. I think the most important thing is to be able to celebrate an achievement that brings everyone together. It can happen that the institutions are absent, and that’s what happened here.<\/p>\n
“We’re sorry about that because it would have been much nicer to be there, but sometimes we too have life circumstances that prevent us from doing so, and I don’t think this deserves a judgment that, all things considered, distracts from the great joy that should unite us all. The most important thing is to celebrate Jannik’s victory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi issued a stark apology to Jannik Sinner after no Italian delegation was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,619,616,615,617,82,618,593,621,614,620],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sinner","tag-sports","tag-swiatek","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}