Three people kneeled on the track about eight meters (yards) from the line holding two banners that spanned from lanes one to six, forcing runners to break through them. No athlete appeared to be h…
Olympic champion Karsten Warholm won his 400-meter hurdles race on Sunday and then turned to join in the crowd booing environmental protesters who disrupted the Diamond League event near the finish.
Three people kneeled on the track about eight yards from the line holding two banners that spanned from lanes one to six, forcing runners to break through them.Warholm running in lane eight had no barrier in his way though seemed distracted, with a fourth apparent protester squatting in lane seven seeming to photograph the incident.The Norwegian star later told national broadcaster NRK the protest was disrespectful to athletes doing their job.
Karsten Warholm avoids three protesters who kneeled on the track about eight meters from the line holding two banners.Norway’s Karsten Warholm is in action during the mens 400m hurdles during the Diamond League in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 2, 2023.Warholm’s winning time on a cool, rainy evening was 47.57 seconds, well outside his 45.94 world record set at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago.
An unusual evening’s work for Warholm included warming up in a parking garage in downtown Stockholm so that, he said later, he could arrive “dry and warm coming to the start.”
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