At the top of each pitch, he pulled up the slack in the rope, fixed it to the anchor and started climbing again, while I used mechanical ascenders to get to the station and put him on belay as fast as I could.

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The 22 January date was fixed because it was the last date available before the stadium takes delivery of the pallets of grass which form the pitch.

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