The President of the Tunisian Tennis Federation, Salma El Moulhi, announced today, Friday, that the local Olympic Committee excluded the tennis champion, Anas Jaber, from carrying the flag of her country at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
Mosaique radio quoted Moulahi as saying: “I called the Secretary-General of the Tunisian Olympic Committee, and I learned that the athlete who will carry the Tunisian flag at the opening will not be Anas Jaber, and I was shocked by the news.”
Mulhi expressed her “deep dissatisfaction with the deprivation of a world champion, who raised the flag of Tunisia all over the world, most recently in Britain after the historic achievement in Wimbledon.”
Mulhi denounced the decision to exclude Jaber, saying: “We do not know the criteria that were relied upon to choose who will raise the flag of Tunisia at the opening of the Olympics. I am a member of the Tunisian Olympic Committee, and we were not involved in choosing who will raise the flag.”
It is expected to announce, today, Friday, the athlete who will raise the flag of Tunisia at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, which will be held on Friday, July 23, 2021, at eight o’clock in the evening, Japan time.
It is noteworthy that Tunisian player Anas Jaber, ranked 24th in the world, had qualified, last Monday, for the quarter-finals of the “Wimbledon” tennis tournament.
Anas Jaber beat Poland’s Iga Chiantek, ranked ninth in the world, in two sets, after one hour and 41 minutes of play.
Tunisian Anas Jaber overturned her delay in front of the Polish, in the final price of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, to win 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, to reach the quarter-finals in a historic Arab achievement.