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A track invader caused a delay in the men's 100m final at the Paris Olympics, leading to his arrest, an €8,000 fine, on top of other penalties.
The men’s 100m final at the Paris Olympic Games took a long time to start and people might be wondering the reason behind that, a man disrupted the normal operations before the race by invading the track and he had to be carried off.
The sprinters were in their blocks and the man, wearing a T-shirt written ‘Free Palestine’, ‘Free Ukraine’ and ‘Jesus’, jumped onto the track from the stands. The security staff immediately carried him off the track and even though he never got to the competitors of the race, he caused the delay.
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The Australian man who caused the delay has now been charged harshly by a French court and will have to pay 8,000 euros (Ksh 1,092,320) as reported by the Canadian Running Magazine. On top of that, the 24-year-old has also been slapped with a three-year ban from the Stade de France.
The men’s 100m race eventually happened with Noah Lyles taking the win. Kishane Thompson and Fred Kerley finished second and third respectively. The incident was not even seen by the sprinters as three-time world 200m champion Noah Lyles noted that he never saw anyone on the track and he was thinking about why they waited too long.
Meanwhile, after being carried off the track, the man was ‘taken into custody and placed under judicial supervision’. The man has also been banned from attending any Olympic events going forward and he will not have a chance to compete at the LA 2028 Olympic Games and the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
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France has laws against unauthorized entry into sports venues or disrupting public events and offenders who break laws can face fines, bans from stadiums or events, and even imprisonment.
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