Olympic gold medalist Etienne Stott was arrested on Sunday evening during climate change protests in London.
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Stott, 39, was London’s 2012 Olympic canoe slalom champion. He was later awarded an MBE for the sport in 2013.
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Stott was photographed being forcibly removed from the Waterloo Bridge by four police officers as he yelled “ecological crisis.” A total of 963 people had been arrested during the Extinction Rebellion protest and 40 have been charged in total.
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“I don’t think there is anything more meaningful that I could be doing in my life right now,” Stott said.
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He continued, “I feel like it is really tough to disrupt people’s lives like this, but this is really important because I believe the disruption that will come down the line if we do not declare a climate emergency and do not tackle this situation of climate change, it will just dwarf any inconvenience here today.”