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Environmental Activists Interrupt US Open Match, Causing an Hour-Long Delay

the essential The intervention caused the meeting to be stopped for almost an hour, on the night of Thursday September 7 to Friday September 8 in New York.

Environmental activists interrupted the first ladies’ semi-final of the US Open between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova for 50 minutes, on the night of Thursday September 7 to Friday September 8 in New York.

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As the players were about to start the second game of the second set, three people stood up in the upper part of the stands of the huge Arthur-Ashe court and chanted “end fossil fuels” (stop fossil fuels, editor’s note).

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The referee preferred to interrupt the game and while the public repeatedly threw “get them out” against the activists, Gauff and Muchova were authorized to leave the court and return to the locker room while the situation was resolved. .

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At the time of the interruption, Gauff led 6-4, 1-0. Upon intervention by the police, two of the activists left peacefully, but the third stuck his bare feet to the ground. The police took several minutes to unstick him before taking him out, his hands handcuffed behind his back.


2023-09-08 09:21:00
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