{"id":11083,"date":"2025-04-08T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:37:10","slug":"serbian-cyclist-students-djokovic-did-not-donate-bicycles-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/serbian-cyclist-students-djokovic-did-not-donate-bicycles-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Cyclist Students: Djokovic Did Not Donate Bicycles to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Original article<\/em><\/a> (in Serbian) was published on 4\/4\/2025; Author: Teodora Koledin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reader of FakeNews Tragac contacted our editorial team with a request to verify the information, claiming that Novak Djokovic donated bicycles to students who set off for Strasbourg yesterday. It turned out the report was justified, as the Novak Djokovic Foundation told us they could neither confirm nor deny the mentioned news, while the student cyclists from Novi Sad involved in organizing the \u201cTour to Strasbourg\u201d denied the story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reported news was published<\/a> on the web portal \u201cIstok\u201d and claimed that the Serbian tennis player \u201cis using all the prize money from Miami to buy bicycles for students riding to Strasbourg\u201d, relying on a supposed quote from him: \u201cI\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t win my 100th trophy, but I decided that even second place is worthwhile. I will give all the prize money to our students for new bikes for the trip to Strasbourg. They already have a pump!\u201d However, this statement is not authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We first sent an inquiry about the donation to the Novak Djokovic Foundation, which responded that they can only provide information related to their official projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRegarding the donation, it\u2019s important to note that our founder often donates independently and anonymously for various purposes. Therefore, we as a foundation are not in a position to confirm or deny such claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, a direct denial was received by Tragac from the student cyclists in Novi Sad. \u201cUnfortunately, the news that Djokovic donated anything to us is completely false\u201d, they stated, explaining that they already \u201chave everything they need thanks to donations from the rest of Serbia and the diaspora, whose support is carrying them toward their goal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The supposed quote from the Serbian tennis player was originally posted<\/a> on an Instagram page called \u201ccista posteljina\u201d, and at the time of writing this analysis, the questionable post had been liked by more than 40,000 users on the platform. \u201cBravo Nole, you never let your people down\u201d, \u201cBravo, great man\u201d, were just some of the many comments found below the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we pay attention to the details, we\u2019ll notice that the hashtag #fakequotes was included in the caption. Additionally, the description of the page itself states that 99% of the news and quotes on it are \u201cmade up\u201d. This, however, did not prevent the spread of this disinformation, which quickly appeared on many other platforms like X<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, and TikTok<\/a>. The web portal Istok published the information without a disclaimer, that is, without noting that it was a joke, false, or satirical content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the famous tennis player has publicly supported the student protests on several occasions, the news about this particular donation turned out to be fake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 4\/4\/2025; Author: Teodora Koledin A reader of FakeNews Tragac contacted our editorial team with a request to verify the information, claiming that Novak Djokovic donated bicycles to students who set off for Strasbourg yesterday. It turned out the report was justified, as the Novak Djokovic Foundation told us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[571],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-serbia-students"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11085,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}