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Cate Campbell, left, and Bronte Campbell with coach Simon Cusak during the team’s first training
session at the Rio Olympic Games aquatics centre in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA
The John McEnroe broken racket for winding up the general
public
It was another weird and wonderful year for Nick Kyrgios, who played like a dream at times and also
did his level best to troll the entire universe at every opportunity. He bailed out of a tournament to
play in a celebrity NBA game, had his “Nick, you can’t play like that. It’s just not professional”
moment, and in between times, actually won tournaments (something his harshest critics tend to
ignore). But his most Nick Kyrgios moment was surely his public battle with Australia’s Olympic
chef de mission, Kitty Chiller, whose criticisms of Kyrgios and his countryman Bernard Tomic
brought a fairly predictable response.
Nick Kyrgios: doing his best to troll the entire universe at every opportunity. Photograph: Thomas
Peter/Reuters
“I mean, if you don’t want to pick me or Bernard, you know, there are plenty of others you can pick to
represent your country as well,” Kyrgios said. “If you don’t want two of the best players in Australia
to represent your country, so be it.” He kind of had a point there.
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