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'I would not defect to the US under Trump' says Martina
Scottish Daily Express
|June 19, 2025
TENNIS star Martina Navratilova says she would never have defected to the US in 1975 if Donald Trump had been in power then.
The nine-time Wimbledon champion became one of the most famous Cold War defectors when she left her then-Communist homeland of Czecholslovakia for a new life in America.
She was granted US citizenship in 1981 and lives in Florida with her wife, former Russian model Julia Lemigova. But she says the country she risked everything to make her home in is unrecognisable now.
This story is from the June 19, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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