World snooker championship disrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters in Sheffield
The Guardian says The World Snooker Championship is the latest high-profile sporting event to be disrupted by protesters after a Just Stop Oil activist poured a packet of orange powder paint over a table on Monday evening, forcing a 24-hour suspension in the match between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry.
Milkins was 11-0 up in the early stages of the opening frame when a man suddenly ran out of the crowd, jumped on to the table and began emptying the powder. It took 12 seconds for two security guards to get down the stairs of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, and bundle the activist away, but the damage had long been done.
A female protester simultaneously tried to glue herself to the other table during the match between Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi, but was stopped by the quick-thinking response of the referee Olivier Marteel. Both protesters wore T-shirts in support of climate change activists Just Stop Oil.