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A Just Stop Oil protester is removed after jumping on the table and throwing orange powder during the match between Robert Milkins against Joe Perry during day three of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, April 17, 2023
CLIMATE protesters disrupted the evening session of the World Championship in Sheffield on Monday night by entering the arena and tipping orange paint powder onto one of the tables shortly after play resumed.
A man wearing a Just Stop Oil T-shirt interrupted the match between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry by jumping onto one of the tables and tipping out the powder, while a woman was prevented from executing a similar stunt on the other table after being tackled by referee Olivier Marteel.
Play was suspended for the evening on the affected table, which was re-covered overnight, while the match between Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi resumed after a delay of approximately 45 minutes.
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