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Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 2 – Referee Olivier Marteel halts protester amid World Championship chaos

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After the conclusion of another extraordinary snooker season, we pick 10 memorable moments from the 2022/23 campaign as captured by the Eurosport cameras.

You can vote for your personal favourite when we reveal our final list of contenders later this month. No. 2 – Break the night with colour in Crucible chaos Ad Olivier Marteel has become used to picking up snooker balls during a storied 17-year career as an elite referee on the main professional circuit, but you can never be sure what the next frame will bring.

SnookerRobertson withdraws from Championship League as Carty and Wells advanceA DAY AGO Being forced to lift a 'Just Stop Oil' activist off the old green baize was a new one for the man with the white gloves at the 47th World Championship in Sheffield.

The two-time world final referee – who also works as a radiology nurse in his native Belgium – was saluted for his courageous efforts in the front line of the global Covid-19 pandemic three years ago. «It's my calling, I'm a nurse.

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