Paris (dpa)
With kick-off delayed for a full 40 minutes, Liverpool FC called for an investigation into the “unacceptable events” surrounding the Champions League final.
The start of the match was delayed 40 minutes yesterday, “Saturday”, at the “Stade de France” in the suburb of “Saint-Denis” in the French capital, Paris.
At first, the organizers explained that the delay was due to security reasons, and then the fans arrived late.
Liverpool lost the match once morest Real Madrid, with a clean goal, while video clips showed the presence of many vacant seats in the stands of Liverpool fans in conjunction with the original scheduled start of the match.
News reports and tweets on social media indicated that there were chaotic scenes outside the stadium, and that many fans waited for hours to enter the stadium, and some fans also tried to enter the stadium without tickets to attend the match.
After this, UEFA announced: “The turnstiles behind the Liverpool stands have been blocked by thousands of fans who bought fake tickets that do not work at these turnstiles.”
He explained, “This led to crowding and an accumulation of fans trying to enter, which resulted in delaying the start of the match by 35 minutes to allow the largest possible number of fans with valid tickets to enter.”
UEFA confirmed that the police dispersed the fans with tear gas and added: “The European Union sympathizes with those affected by these events, and will review and evaluate these matters urgently with the French police and authorities, and the French Football Federation.”
Meanwhile, Liverpool said: “We are very disappointed by the events of entering the stadium and the breakdown of the security fence that Liverpool fans faced this evening at the Stade de France.”
“It is the greatest match in European football, and the fans should not have gone through these scenes that we have seen… We have officially requested that a formal investigation be opened into the reasons behind these unacceptable incidents,” he added.
The French police had published a tweet in English, Spanish and French shortly before the original start of the match, and stated: “Do not enter by force” into the stadium.
In another tweet, former England football legend Gary Lineker said: “I find it impossible for this to happen on the ground. It seems very dangerous.
Absolute massacre. I am not sure there might be a worse organization than this.”
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Extreme cyclist Christoph Strasser has clinched his third win in a row at the Race Around Lower Austria. The Styrian improved his record to 16:36 hours. Elena Roch from Lower Austria won the women’s category – also with a record.
The fourth edition of the Race Around Lower Austria started on Friday at 4 p.m. in Weitra (district of Gmünd). After two years without spectators due to the pandemic, fans were once once more able to cheer on the 200 participants in the start and finish area.
After his victories in 2020 and 2021, extreme cyclist Christoph Strasser clinched his third win in a row at the Race Around Lower Austria. After 600 kilometers and 6,000 meters in altitude, the 39-year-old from Styria improved his course record from the previous year by almost 20 minutes to 16:36 hours.
“I would never have dreamed that things would go even faster following last year,” was Strasser’s first reaction. “It was an unbelievable race and finally there were spectators once more. That motivated me twice. A big thank you also to the organizers, who once once more put together a great race,” said the six-time Race Across America winner. Second place went to Upper Austrian Sebastian Michetschläger (17:45 hours) ahead of German Robert miller.
Smelled faster by over an hour
Elena Roch was in a league of her own for the women. Born in Hollabrunn, she was able to improve her record from the previous year from 22:18 hours to 21:15 hours – following a cruciate ligament rupture in January. “The knee held and that was the most important thing,” said the 29-year-old. “Everything worked great.”
New records were set in all eight categories at the Race Around Lower Austria. “Cycling has been booming in recent years, the participants are getting better and better at preparing for such a race and are more familiar with it. Of course, the sometimes quite strong tailwind also played a role this year,” says race director Georg Franschitz.
As officially revealed by CDProjekt in April during the presentation of the firm’s financial results, Cyberpunk 2077’s first expansion will arrive in 2023. The Polish studio seems to be maturing its project, which is not to displease us, especially given the somewhat chaotic start of the license. Patience being the mother of virtue, we cannot blame the developer for taking his time to deliver a qualitative extension to us as soon as it is launched.
However, things seem to be progressing: hundreds of dialogue files have been leaked for this future extension. They were accidentally shipped with a game patch and it’s in a subreddit that a dataminer has revealed its analysis of the various elements revealed inadvertently.
There would thus appear a not inconsiderable quantity of dialogues, concerning seven main missions, that would be present in this additional content. The plot would revolve arounda female character named Songbird. The amount of content, customization concerning her in the leaked files assumes that she was present in the initial development of the game and then dedicated to the DLC. Despite a difficult analysis of the dialogues, these being non-contextualized, we might think that the plot will take place in the combat zone of the Pacifica area, hitherto inaccessible. Finally, a new epilogue would involve Hanako Arasaka.
Perhaps CD Projekt will take advantage in future conferences to formalize this information with, we hope, gameplay.
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion launched the training program for mental health ambassadors “Phase Two” in the presence of more than 40 male and female trainees from government, private and charitable organizations, over a period of six days at the center’s headquarters in Riyadh.
The supervisor of the mental health ambassadors program, social specialist Nada bint Oqab bin Abboud, explained that the program aims to qualify ambassadors who represent mental health in work environments, provide them with basic concepts and knowledge of mental health and raise awareness of it in their facilities, in addition to identifying the method of directing and guiding psychological support workers. Available in the work environment or outside, and activating events related to mental health.
The specialist, Nada bin Abboud, indicated that the mission of the “Mental Health Ambassadors” program is not to diagnose workers and provide psychological counseling to them; Rather, it seeks to promote mental health in the work environment and facilitate access to mental health services, indicating that the training program received great attention from the trainees and that it is the first program of its kind in the Kingdom.