Martina Navratilova Defects!

Martina's done it again! This time, though, she's defected to her native Czech Republic.

Disillusioned with the US, Navratilova defects again

The Independent, By David Macintyre, March 12

Martina Navratilova has regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing a Communist regime she now compares favourably to that of her adopted country America under President George Bush.

The nine-time Wimbledon champion and one of the world's greatest ever tennis players, Ms Navratilova was born in Prague. She fled in 1975 at the height of the Cold War after being denied the right to compete in professional tennis in the US, where most major tournaments were then played and to where she later moved.

After angering the Communist authorities and living in America for six years, she became a US citizen.

Yesterday, however, she told a press conference in Tokyo that she now has her home citizenship back. "I lost it at the time I defected. I got it back on 9 January," she said.

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She will now maintain dual citizenship with both the US and the Czech Republic....

It must have been the limited variety of cheese available here that did it.