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      Emilia Romagna GP EVACUATED due to flood risks with F1 race under threat of being called off

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      CIRCUIT bosses have evacuated the paddock at Imola ahead of this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix due to flood risks.Heavy rain has hit the region, which has been given a red alert weather warning with wind and rain expected to continue.
      The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix could be in chaos this weekendCredit: AP
      A red alert weather warning was issued in the regionCredit: Splash
      Storms have already triggered flooding and the circuit is perilously close to the river Santerno, which is rapidly rising.
      F1 chiefs face an anxious wait to see if the river will burst its banks, sending water flooding into the paddock just metres away.
      Staff in Imola were sent back to their hotels as officials monitored the situation.
      Contingency plans are in place should there be problems with the TV broadcast of the race, but F1 are hopeful that it will go ahead as planned.
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      Local schools have been shut as a precaution and residents have been urged to only travel if essential.
      However, with much of the car parking done on grass, there is likely to be plenty of problems with logistics.
      The race is the first of a triple-header on consecutive weekends and schedule means it is already a tight turnaround before any weather delays.
      For the meantime, F1 say the event is going ahead as planned.
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      Meanwhile, the race in Imola will see the debut of a new Pirelli rain tyre which does not need heating up beforehand.
      Pirelli’s head of car racing and F1 Mario Isola said: “Track tests have shown even better performance than the previous Cinturato Blue full wet, even without the electric heating of the tyre.
      “The result of studies carried out by Pirelli, it is the first concrete step towards the use of dry tyres without preheating.” More

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      Terrifying moment THREE 300million volt lightning bolts strike football pitch in horror hat-trick during match

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      THIS is the terrifying moment three lightning bolts strike a football pitch with 300 million volts during a match.The horror hat-trick was caught on camera in Nueva Londres, Paraguay, on January 29.
      The strike hit a football pitch in the middle of a matchCredit: CEN
      It sent players diving for coverCredit: CEN
      Footage of the event shows players running in fear and diving for cover as large lightning bolts hammer the turf.
      They struck the ground amid deafening claps of thunder as a storm raged.
      One player threw himself to the ground to avoid the strike, while another simply turned and ran.
      Those involved in the game were lucky to be alive, according to one expert.
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      Widinei Fernandes, a professor of geophysics, told Brazilian media: “Looking at the video, you can see it was a lightning strike formed by two or three discharges.
      “In general, lightning is formed by three discharges, these discharges then take advantage of the main one to have subsequent discharges.
      “People are at great risk, because a discharge could even kill a person.”
      Local officials confirmed that there had been no injuries.
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      Unbelievably, the match was not abandoned and continued until the final whistle.
      Professor Fernandes added: “Everyone should look for covered shelter, they were very lucky, someone could have died.”
      It comes after a Brazilian player was struck by lightning during a match in 2019.
      Agua Santa U-20s defender Henrique thankfully made a full recovery after medics rushed to treat him.
      Similarly, two players were injured by a lightning strike during a school match in Jamaica the same year.
      Meanwhile, earlier this month, an eight-year-old British boy suffered severe burns and a cardiac arrest after being hit by a lightning bolt while swimming in Australia.
      Thankfully, an off-duty nurse was at the beach and managed to resuscitate him, before he was stabilised in hospital.
      One geophysics professor said the players are lucky to be aliveCredit: CEN More

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      Couple discover a football on the beach after Storm Darcy blew it 300 miles from Amsterdam to Norfolk

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      STORM Darcy’s bone-numbing -10 gales have blown a football nearly 300 miles across the icy North Sea to Norfolk.
      An amazed couple walking along a snow-covered beach discovered the ball which was covered in Amsterdam-based club Ajax’s branding.

      Di Miller discovered an Ajax football on the beach in Norfolk

      The ball blew 300 miles from Amsterdam

      Muffled against the Arctic wind, Terry and Di Miller were braving the big chill for some lockdown exercise when they spotted the ball on the sand at West Runton.
      Battling the gales, the couple managed to catch up with the bouncing ball and found it was emblazoned with the colours and slogans of Ajax.
      The Millers, who live in West Runton, say the discovery shows how powerful the storm is, to have blown the ball across the North Sea.
      The snow-laden Beast from the East winds, cutting the temperature to minus ten, have battered Norfolk and the rest of East Anglia, facing out on to the North Sea.

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      Terry said “It was probably lost by someone in the Netherlands, and has come all the way to Norfolk in the easterly winds.
      “It’s probably been blown across the North Sea from Holland.”
      The ball, in good condition, is adorned with Ajax’s founding year – 1900 – and three gold stars, which signifies the club having won the top-flight Dutch Eredivisie league more than 30 times – currently 33.

      It also has the motto ‘The pride of Mokum’ and the Millers have discovered Mokum was an old term for Amsterdam, which comes from Yiddish. Ajax has a strong Jewish following.
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      The Ajax branded football ended up on the Norfolk coastCredit: Google Maps

      Storm Darcy has brought snow and freezing temperatures to the UKCredit: Alamy Live News

      Terry said that amazingly it mirrors a story in his own family.
      In the late 1950s or early 1960s, members of his family lost a beachball on Gorleston beach.
      It blew across the North Sea to Scheveningen, a Dutch seaside resort near The Hague.
      “It was picked up by a Dutch family on holiday in Scheveningen, which led to us meeting up and becoming friends” he said.

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