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Stockholm Diamond League: Karsten Warholm ‘p****d off’ after environmental protest hits race

Norway's Olympic champion Karsten Warholm won the men's 400 metres hurdles in a race that was hindered by a protest from environmentalists at a rain-hit Galan Diamond League meet on Sunday.

Three protesters from A22 Network, who interrupted the Swedish final of "Let's Dance" on TV4 last month, knelt on the track about 10 metres from the finish line, stretching a banner across six lanes, forcing most of the field to run through it. Warholm, running out in lane eight, was not affected.

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