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VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM INTER MIAMI CF V CHICAGO FIRE FC MLS GAME AT CHASE STADIUM  COMPLETE SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (SOCCER UNITED MARKETING – Editorial use only. No more than two minutes use per match. Must on screen courtesy 'MLS on Apple'. No use after December 31, 2025. No monetisation. No resales. No sublicensing.) STORY: Justin Reynolds and Brian Gutierrez scored late to lift the visiting Chicago Fire to a playoff-clinching 5-3 victory on Tuesday (September 30) over Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, bringing a wild end to the league's longest active postseason drought. Dje D'Avilla, Jonathan Dean and Rominigue Kouame also scored and Maren Haile-Selassie notched two assists for Chicago (15-11-6, 51 points), which guaranteed its first playoff qualification since 2017 and moved above Columbus into eighth place in the Eastern Conference. Luis Suarez scored his eighth and ninth goals to erase Miami's two-goal deficit in the second half. But the Herons missed a crucial opportunity to close ground on the Philadelphia Union in the Supporters' Shield race. Tomas Aviles also scored for Miami (16-7-8, 56 points), which remained fourth in the Eastern Conference with the defeat. The Herons will be eliminated from contention for the Shield and the top East spot if Philadelphia wins one of its final two matches. Miami pressured for much of the second half, but struggled with transition defending all game long. That showed up on Chicago's decisive goal during a slow-developing counterattack in the 80th minute. Hugo Cuypers twice had pass attempts near the top of the box blocked during the sequence, But even after that, Gutierrez had time to play a give-and-go with Mauricio Pineda before getting to the byline and guiding a low cross to the back post for Reynolds' easy finish. Gutierrez added an exclamation point three minutes later, unfurling a ferocious strike from about 25 yards out that left goalkeeper Oscar Ustari little chance as it sailed into the top right corner. After Messi and Tadeo Allende both hit the woodwork in the 52nd minute, Suarez cut Miami's deficit to 3-2 with an off-balance finish in the 57th minute. Baltasar Rodriguez provided the line-breaking pass to put Suarez into the box, and the veteran Uruguayan striker rode Jack Elliot's challenge while driving a low finish past Chris Brady inside the right post. Seventeen minutes later, Suarez showed the finishing class that once made him a 20-plus goal-scorer nine times between Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona. After Rodriguez found Jordi Alba wide left, Suarez received Alba's ball into the box with his first touch. Then, with his second, he snapped off a perfect finish inside the right post from about 15 yards out. (Production: Bhagya Ayyavoo)

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VIDEO SHOWS: MANCHESTER CITY TRAINING & COMMENTS FROM MANAGER PEP GUARDIOLA AHEAD OF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE MATCH AWAY TO AS MONACO / AS MONACO TRAINING RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (UEFA – This content can only be used in the reporting of the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026 season – no other use allowed, no commercial use, must on-screen courtesy " UEFA 2025" or " UEFA 2026", no resales, no sublicensing, no monetisation) 1. MIDFIELDER TAKING SHOT AT GOAL 2. MANAGER PEP GUARDIOLA & ASSISTANT COACH PEP LIJNDERS WATCHING ON DURING TRAINING  3. STRIKER ERLING HAALAND DURING RONDO DRILL  4. DEFENDER RUBEN DIAS & RODRI DURING RONDO DRILL  5. GOALKEEPER GIANLUIGI DONNARUMMA WALKING OUT FOR TRAINING  6. RONDO DRILL / MIDFIELDER PHIL FODEN 7. HAALAND DURING RONDO DRILL  8. TRAINING UNDERWAY 9. GUARDIOLA WATCHING ON FONTVIEILLE, MONACO (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (UEFA – This content can only be used in the reporting of the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026 season – no other use allowed, no commercial use, must on-screen courtesy " UEFA 2025" or " UEFA 2026", no resales, no sublicensing, no monetisation) 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER, PEP GUARDIOLA, SAYING: REPORTER: “Hi Pep, Rodri’s travelled. Is he fit enough to start?” GUARDIOLA: “Yeah, he feels much better than the game before Burnley.” 11. WHITE FLASH 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER, PEP GUARDIOLA, ON RODRI CONSISTENTLY PLAYING THREE GAMES A WEEK, SAYING: “The week before was so demanding with United, Napoli, especially Arsenal, and right now, if you want my feeling right now, he’s not able to play three games a week at a top, top, top, top level. Top intensity, the demanding of the opponents. My feeling, right now he’s not ready, because it needs time.” 13. WHITE FLASH 14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER, PEP GUARDIOLA, SAYING: “If we go through, and we get better and better, we’ll be a contender, but we have to deserve it. Last season when we started, we were a contender, right? When we started, look at what happened, we finished 23 or 24, so, step-by-step. So, we make the first three points. Last season against Inter we could not do that, we go against a top, top side like Napoli, and now we have this opportunity, you know, you have to win at home all the games, and win one or two games away, you know, to qualify until the first eight, and then we just do step-by-step. So, I don’t think further than that, and after Brentford, international break, and we see. Hopefully, after Brentford we will have many, many players back. (Rayan) Cherki will be back, (Rayan) Ait-Nouri will be back, (Abdukodir) Khusanov will be back, hopefully, Omar (Marmoush) will be back, so, many players will be back, and we’ll be (able) to handle every three days for these competitions. We’ll be top.” LA TURBIE, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (UEFA – This content can only be used in the reporting of the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026 season – no other use allowed, no commercial use, must on-screen courtesy " UEFA 2025" or " UEFA 2026", no resales, no sublicensing, no monetisation) 15. MIDFIELDER PAUL POGBA TYING BOOT LACES BEFORE WARMING UP AHEAD OF AS MONACO TRAINING  16. POGBA JUGGLING BALL  17. POGBA JUGGLING BALL WITH WINGER ANSU FATI 18. POGBA DURING RONDO DRILL  19. DEFENDER ERIC DIER DURING RONDO DRILL  20. RONDO DRILL  STORY: Rodri is back in Manchester City's squad for their Champions League group phase game away to AS Monaco, but the midfielder is not ready to play in three matches a week, manager Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday (September 30). City travel to Monaco with a returning Rodri, who missed their last two matches against Huddersfield and Burnley due to knee pain.  The Ballon d'Or winner missed most of last season with an ACL injury and has struggled to fully shake off his injury since returning to action in May. The 29-year-old had played in three straight matches against Manchester United, Napoli and Arsenal, but with pain then returning to his knee, Guardiola believes that the Spaniard is not yet recovered enough to feature three times a week, adding that getting back to full fitness “needs time”.  (Production: Stefan Haskins)

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VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM INTER MIAMI CF V CHICAGO FIRE FC MLS GAME AT CHASE STADIUM  COMPLETE SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (SOCCER UNITED MARKETING – Editorial use only. No more than two minutes use per match. Must on screen courtesy 'MLS on Apple'. No use after December 31, 2025. No monetisation. No resales. No sublicensing.) STORY: Justin Reynolds and Brian Gutierrez scored late to lift the visiting Chicago Fire to a playoff-clinching 5-3 victory on Tuesday (September 30) over Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, bringing a wild end to the league's longest active postseason drought. Dje D'Avilla, Jonathan Dean and Rominigue Kouame also scored and Maren Haile-Selassie notched two assists for Chicago (15-11-6, 51 points), which guaranteed its first playoff qualification since 2017 and moved above Columbus into eighth place in the Eastern Conference. Luis Suarez scored his eighth and ninth goals to erase Miami's two-goal deficit in the second half. But the Herons missed a crucial opportunity to close ground on the Philadelphia Union in the Supporters' Shield race. Tomas Aviles also scored for Miami (16-7-8, 56 points), which remained fourth in the Eastern Conference with the defeat. The Herons will be eliminated from contention for the Shield and the top East spot if Philadelphia wins one of its final two matches. Miami pressured for much of the second half, but struggled with transition defending all game long. That showed up on Chicago's decisive goal during a slow-developing counterattack in the 80th minute. Hugo Cuypers twice had pass attempts near the top of the box blocked during the sequence, But even after that, Gutierrez had time to play a give-and-go with Mauricio Pineda before getting to the byline and guiding a low cross to the back post for Reynolds' easy finish. Gutierrez added an exclamation point three minutes later, unfurling a ferocious strike from about 25 yards out that left goalkeeper Oscar Ustari little chance as it sailed into the top right corner. After Messi and Tadeo Allende both hit the woodwork in the 52nd minute, Suarez cut Miami's deficit to 3-2 with an off-balance finish in the 57th minute. Baltasar Rodriguez provided the line-breaking pass to put Suarez into the box, and the veteran Uruguayan striker rode Jack Elliot's challenge while driving a low finish past Chris Brady inside the right post. Seventeen minutes later, Suarez showed the finishing class that once made him a 20-plus goal-scorer nine times between Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona. After Rodriguez found Jordi Alba wide left, Suarez received Alba's ball into the box with his first touch. Then, with his second, he snapped off a perfect finish inside the right post from about 15 yards out. (Production: Bhagya Ayyavoo)

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VIDEO SHOWS: ARSENAL TRAINING & COMMENTS FROM DEFENDER WILLIAM SALIBA & MANAGER MIKEL ARTETA AHEAD OF HIS SIDE'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE MATCH AT HOME TO OLYMPIACOS RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND, UK (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. ARSENAL MANAGER MIKEL ARTETA & FIRST TEAM COACH GABRIEL HEINZE WALKING OUT FOR TRAINING 2. DEFENDER WILLIAM SALIBA & MIDFIELDER/CAPTAIN MARTIN ODEGAARD WALKING OUT  3. SALIBA TAKING SEAT FOR PRESS CONFERENCE 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL DEFENDER, WILLIAM SALIBA, ON SIGNING A NEW CONTRACT WITH THE CLUB, SAYING: “Yeah, I’m so happy to sign the new deal with my club. So, yeah, I have to keep going and yeah, keep going like this to help the team to win some trophies.” 5. ARTETA SEEN THROUGH CAMERA LENS 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON SALIBA SIGNING A NEW CONTRACT AT THE CLUB, SAYING: “Yeah, it’s big news, very happy. Congratulations to Willie, fully deserves this new contract. His contribution to the club, to the team has been phenomenal the last few years, and very happy to keep the spine of the team with us.” 7. WINGER BUKAYO SAKA WALKING OUT  8. MIDFIELDER MIKEL MERINO WALKING OUT 9. WINGER LEANDRO TROSSARD & STRIKER VIKTOR GYOKERES WALKING OUT  10. PLAYERS, INCLUDING WINGER MAX DOWMAN & MIDFIELDER ETHAN NWANERI WALKING OUT  11. DEFENDER BEN WHITE WALKING OUT  12. PLAYERS WALKING OUT 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON THE ENERGY THEIR LAST-MINUTE PREMIER LEAGUE WIN AWAY TO NEWCASTLE DID FOR THEM & MOVING ON FROM THAT, SAYING: “Well, great energy, obviously, the moment you go in the dressing room everybody’s celebrating, especially because the manner and the way it happened, but yeah, you have to move on immediately, and you know that we have a very tough match tomorrow against Olympiacos, and ready for it.” 14. ARTETA LISTENING TO QUESTION  15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON THEIR MATCH AGAINST OLYMPIACOS, SAYING: “Well, we have the same ambition, which is go game by game, and try to be better than the opponent, which is very difficult in this competition, and win as many games as we can, and tomorrow we’re going to have a really difficult one. We know how important the home form is going to be to reach in this phase where we want to arrive, and tomorrow we have the opportunity to start well (at home).” 16. SALIBA RUNNING THROUGH TUNNEL FORMED BY PLAYERS 17. SAKA WARMING UP AMONGST PLAYERS 18. ARTETA AMONG PLAYERS  19. PLAYERS’ LEGS & BOOTS DURING WARMING UP 20. EBERECHI EZE AMONG PLAYERS 21. MIDFIELDER DECLAN RICE WALKING / WHITE PASSING BALL  22. VARIOUS OF ODEGAARD DURING RONDO DRILL  23. EZE CHASING BALL DURING RONDO DRILL  24. WINGER GABRIEL MARTINELLI CHASING BALL DURING RONDO DRILL 25. RONDO DRILL STORY: Centre back William Saliba has committed his future to Arsenal by signing a new long-term contract, the Premier League club said on Tuesday (September 30), following media reports that Real Madrid had shown interest in the Frenchman. Saliba has formed a formidable partnership with Brazilian Gabriel Magalhaes at the heart of the Arsenal defence, making 140 appearances in all competitions since his 2019 move from French club St Etienne. The 24-year-old France international's new contract will run until 2030, British media reported. Arsenal have finished runners-up in the last three Premier League seasons, with their league title drought now stretching to 21 years. They recruited heavily in the close season, signing Sweden striker Viktor Gyokeres, England forwards Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze, and Spanish defender Cristhian Mosquera, and face Greek outfit Olympiacos in the Champions League on Wednesday. (Production: Stefan Haskins)

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VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS OF CARLOS ALCARAZ V TAYLOR FRITZ FINAL MATCH AT THE JAPAN OPEN  SHOWS: TOKYO, JAPAN (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (ATP/IMG MEDIA – see restrictions before use) CARLOS ALCARAZ (SPAIN) V TAYLOR FRITZ (UNITED STATES) 6-4 6-4 1. FRITZ WALKING OUT AND WAVING 2. ALCARAZ WALKING OUT AND WAVING  FIRST SET  3. FRITZ GOES LONG AND ALCARAZ WINS A POINT/ CROWD CHEERING 4. ALCARAZ WINS A POINT WITH FOREHAND WINNER/ALCARAZ CELEBRATING/ CROWD CHEERING 5. FRITZ WINS A POINT WITH FOREHAND WINNER/ FRITZ CLOSE-UP 6. ALCARAZ BREAKS THE SERVE AND WINS A GAME POINT/ ALCARAZ CLOSE-UP 7. FRITZ NETS THE BALL AND ALCARAZ WINS FIRST SET 6-4/ ALCARAZ CELEBRATING/ ALCARAZ'S TEAM CHEERING SECOND SET 8. FRITZ NETS THE BALL AND ALCARAZ WINS GAME POINT/ ALCARAZ CELEBRATING/ ALCARAZ'S TEAM CHEERING 9. FRITZ NETS THE BALL AND ALCARAZ WINS A POINT/ ALCARAZ CLOSE-UP/CROWD CHEERING 10. ALCARAZ CLOSE-UP 11. FRITZ NETS THE BALL AND ALCARAZ WINS GAME POINT/ ALCARAZ CLOSE-UP 12. ALCARAZ WINS MATCH 6-4 6-4 WITH A DROP SHOT/ ALCARAZ CLOSE-UP 13. ALCARAZ AND FRITZ SHAKING HANDS WITH EACH OTHER AND CHAIR UMPIRE 14. ALCARAZ ACKNOWLEDGING THE CROWD 15.VARIOUS OF ALCARAZ WITH THE TROPHY STORY: World number one Carlos Alcaraz wore down Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-4 in the Japan Open final on Tuesday (September 30) to win his eighth title of a spectacular year and further cement his status as a dominant force in the men's game. Victory also earned Alcaraz revenge for a stunning loss to Fritz at the Laver Cup team event in San Francisco this month, the Spaniard's first defeat by the American in four clashes, which came shortly after his triumphant U.S. Open campaign. The 22-year-old had endured a scare after jarring his foot on his Tokyo debut last week, but was beaming as he celebrated his 67th match win this season and 24th tour-level title overall. "It's been a pleasure to be able to play here in Tokyo in front of Japanese fans. I've enjoyed every single second I was on the court (apart from) the five minutes I was on the floor after I hurt my ankle," Alcaraz joked. "I'm really happy with the level that I played and with everything. Starting the week not really good with the ankle, and the way that I came back from that and played a great tournament, great matches." After a high-quality start to the match under the roof of the Ariake Colosseum, Alcaraz edged ahead when Fritz sent his shot long to drop serve for the first time, and the top seed was in no mood to relent as he went on to seal the opening set. Fritz received treatment for a thigh problem before the start of the next set and Alcaraz immediately heaped pressure on the second seed by hitting a blistering forehand to break in the opening game. The six-times Grand Slam champion quickly built a 4-1 lead, prompting Fritz to throw his racket to the floor in frustration, and although Alcaraz briefly wobbled on serve later, he secured the win with a delicate drop shot for his first Tokyo title. This year, Alcaraz defended his French Open title and reached the Wimbledon final which he lost to Jannik Sinner. His only other final loss this year came in Barcelona, where he was beaten by Dane Holger Rune. (Production: Suramya Kaushik)

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VIDEO SHOWS: ARSENAL TRAINING & COMMENTS FROM DEFENDER WILLIAM SALIBA & MANAGER MIKEL ARTETA AHEAD OF HIS SIDE'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE MATCH AT HOME TO OLYMPIACOS RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND, UK (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. ARSENAL MANAGER MIKEL ARTETA & FIRST TEAM COACH GABRIEL HEINZE WALKING OUT FOR TRAINING 2. DEFENDER WILLIAM SALIBA & MIDFIELDER/CAPTAIN MARTIN ODEGAARD WALKING OUT  3. SALIBA TAKING SEAT FOR PRESS CONFERENCE 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL DEFENDER, WILLIAM SALIBA, ON SIGNING A NEW CONTRACT WITH THE CLUB, SAYING: “Yeah, I’m so happy to sign the new deal with my club. So, yeah, I have to keep going and yeah, keep going like this to help the team to win some trophies.” 5. ARTETA SEEN THROUGH CAMERA LENS 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON SALIBA SIGNING A NEW CONTRACT AT THE CLUB, SAYING: “Yeah, it’s big news, very happy. Congratulations to Willie, fully deserves this new contract. His contribution to the club, to the team has been phenomenal the last few years, and very happy to keep the spine of the team with us.” 7. WINGER BUKAYO SAKA WALKING OUT  8. MIDFIELDER MIKEL MERINO WALKING OUT 9. WINGER LEANDRO TROSSARD & STRIKER VIKTOR GYOKERES WALKING OUT  10. PLAYERS, INCLUDING WINGER MAX DOWMAN & MIDFIELDER ETHAN NWANERI WALKING OUT  11. DEFENDER BEN WHITE WALKING OUT  12. PLAYERS WALKING OUT 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON THE ENERGY THEIR LAST-MINUTE PREMIER LEAGUE WIN AWAY TO NEWCASTLE DID FOR THEM & MOVING ON FROM THAT, SAYING: “Well, great energy, obviously, the moment you go in the dressing room everybody’s celebrating, especially because the manner and the way it happened, but yeah, you have to move on immediately, and you know that we have a very tough match tomorrow against Olympiacos, and ready for it.” 14. ARTETA LISTENING TO QUESTION  15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER, MIKEL ARTETA, ON THEIR MATCH AGAINST OLYMPIACOS, SAYING: “Well, we have the same ambition, which is go game by game, and try to be better than the opponent, which is very difficult in this competition, and win as many games as we can, and tomorrow we’re going to have a really difficult one. We know how important the home form is going to be to reach in this phase where we want to arrive, and tomorrow we have the opportunity to start well (at home).” 16. SALIBA RUNNING THROUGH TUNNEL FORMED BY PLAYERS 17. SAKA WARMING UP AMONGST PLAYERS 18. ARTETA AMONG PLAYERS  19. PLAYERS’ LEGS & BOOTS DURING WARMING UP 20. EBERECHI EZE AMONG PLAYERS 21. MIDFIELDER DECLAN RICE WALKING / WHITE PASSING BALL  22. VARIOUS OF ODEGAARD DURING RONDO DRILL  23. EZE CHASING BALL DURING RONDO DRILL  24. WINGER GABRIEL MARTINELLI CHASING BALL DURING RONDO DRILL 25. RONDO DRILL STORY: Centre back William Saliba has committed his future to Arsenal by signing a new long-term contract, the Premier League club said on Tuesday (September 30), following media reports that Real Madrid had shown interest in the Frenchman. Saliba has formed a formidable partnership with Brazilian Gabriel Magalhaes at the heart of the Arsenal defence, making 140 appearances in all competitions since his 2019 move from French club St Etienne. The 24-year-old France international's new contract will run until 2030, British media reported. Arsenal have finished runners-up in the last three Premier League seasons, with their league title drought now stretching to 21 years. They recruited heavily in the close season, signing Sweden striker Viktor Gyokeres, England forwards Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze, and Spanish defender Cristhian Mosquera, and face Greek outfit Olympiacos in the Champions League on Wednesday. (Production: Stefan Haskins)

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VIDEO SHOWS: MAN CLIMBS AROUND GLIDER AT 2500 METRES ALTITUDE / SOUNDBITES  RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT  SHOWS: AIGEN IM ENNSTAL, AUSTRIA (RECENT) (RED BULL CONTENT POOL – No resales, no new uses after six months from date content is downloaded from Reuters, no more than 70% of this video content may be used on YouTube) 1. BLANIK-L13 OF THE RED BULL BLANIX TEAM GLIDER LEAVING HANGER 2. VARIOUS OF CLIMBER DOMEN SKOFIC PREPARING PLANE  3. SKOFIC PUTS HELMET ON 4. SKOFIC GETS INTO PLANE 5. RED BULL BLANIX TEAM PILOT EWALD ROITHNER PREPARES FOR TAKE-OFF 6. AERIAL VIEW OF VALLEY 7. VARIOUS OF GLIDER BEING TOWED INTO THE AIR 8. SKOFIC LEAVES COCKPIT 9. SKOFIC ON ROOF OF GLIDER 10. VARIOUS OF SKOFIC CLIMBING AROUND GLIDER 11. SKOFIC ON WING OF GLIDER 12. ROITHNER CELEBRATES 13. SKOFIC JUMPS OFF AND PARACHUTES TO LAND 14. SKOFIC TOUCHES DOWN AND CELEBRATES 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOMEN SKOFIC, CLIMBER, SAYING:     "There are no words that I would know that would completely describe what I experienced. It's for sure something like this has never been done before. And yeah, it's so much more than I, like I tried to visualize and stuff, but like the wobbles and the fluctuation of the G-forces and everything included like these things I could not imagine how they're going to actually feel. And it was incredible sensation, much harder than on the ground. I thought I'm prepared, but I wasn't. And that's one of the things which got me to doubt if I'm going to actually succeed or not. So in the end, I'm actually so lucky how I also like got with this two days of window that I had the opportunity to have just enough of a hard route to actually succeed on the end. I wanted something hard, but if I would make it just a little bit too hard, it would be off my limit." 16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) EWALD ROITHNER, PILOT, SAYING:     "The big technical challenges in the plane climb project was one thing, the aerodynamics. When a person is sitting on the wing, it destroys lift and it's hard to steer the plane. I feel the plane shaking, I feel the plane flying in one direction, this one part and the other part is the weight of the person. When Domen is climbing out on the wing, I feel the weight and to steer the plane in this situation was quite challenging." 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOMEN SKOFIC, CLIMBER, SAYING:     "My biggest challenge, especially on the first day was not getting my fingers too cold. Then the second one was for sure like getting the perfect flow through the G-forces, like through the fluctuation that everything was done in the right moment. So when there was a positive one that I could hold with both hands and then take the next move when we were actually like at the neutral zone. So that was quite an important part, but it was also that was why it was everything that much more demanding because I had like basically at some points, not just the force of the parachute of me or the weight of the parachute, but also like positive forces of the additional G-forces." 18. VARIOUS OF FAILED ATTEMPTS STORY: Slovenian professional climber Domen Skofic made history when he became the first person to master a specially constructed climbing route under the wings of a Red Bull Blanix glider over Aigen im Ennstal in Austria.     Equipped with only a 12 kilogram parachute, the 31-year-old climber out of the cockpit of the glider piloted by Ewald Roithner at a height of 2,500 metres and climbed in a figure-eight loop around both wings of the aircraft, passing over the underside.     Skofic first climbed out onto the underside of the left wing, returned under the fuselage and switched to the right side. There, he moved to the centre of the wing and transferred to the top with a precise move.     The route corresponded to a climbing difficulty of 8a but brought a completely new dynamic compared to a vertical climbing wall: in addition to gravity, the athlete had to balance the strong airflow of 80-100km/h that pushed him backwards from the front and sides. Added to this were perceived temperatures of -10 °C and changing G-forces.     After completing the climb in around a minute, Skofic finished with a parachute jump from a height of 1,500 metres.     "There are no words that I would know that would completely describe what I experienced," Skofic said.     "It was incredible sensation, much harder than on the ground. I thought I'm prepared, but I wasn't."     The Blanik is a comparatively large glider, which gives it excellent stability in the air. Its greatest advantage is the ability to fly very slowly while still remaining steady, although pilot Roithner admitted that Skofic's weight on the wings made flying the aircraft difficult.     "When a person is sitting on the wing, it destroys lift and it's hard to steer the plane. I feel the plane shaking, I feel the plane flying in one direction, this one part and the other part is the weight of the person. When Domen is climbing out on the wing, I feel the weight and to steer the plane in this situation was quite challenging," he said. (Production: Andy Ragg)

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VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM WTA CHINA OPEN RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: BEIJING, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (WTA – see restrictions before use) COCO GAUFF (HEADBAND) V BEAT BELINDA BENCIC (WHITE CAP) 1. COCO GAUFF AND BELINDA BENCIC AT TOSS FIRST SET 2. OVERHEAD SMASH BY BENCIC TO BREAK GAUFF AND LEAD 5-3 3. BENCIC TAKES SET AS GAUFF NETS FOREHAND AFTER LONG RALLY 4. BENCIC AFTER WINNING FIRST SET SECOND SET TIE-BREAKER 5. BACKHAND WINNER BY GAUFF 6. DOUBLE FAULT BY BENCIC / GAUFF TAKES SECOND SET AND WALKING BACK THIRD SET 7. GAUFF HITS FOREHAND WINNER PAST BENCIC 8. GAUFF SEALS MATCH AS BENCIC NETS BACKHAND SLICE 9. GAUFF CELEBRATING / GAUFF BOX CHEERING 10. PLAYERS MEET AT NET AND SHAKE HANDS WITH UMPIRE 11. GAUFF WAVING TO CROWD AMANDA ANISIMOVA V KAROLINA MUCHOVA (WHITE SKIRT) FIRST SET 12. MUCHOVA WINS RALLY WITH SHOT AT NET SECOND SET 13. FOREHAND WINNER BY ANISIMOVA 14. ANISIMOVA VOLLEY WINNER THIRD SET 15. FOREHAND WINNER BY ANISIMOVA 16. MUCHOVA HITS BALL LONG, ANISIMOVA WINS MATCH 17. PLAYERS AT NET 18. ANISIMOVA WAVES TO CROWD STORY: Coco Gauff of the U.S. battled past Belinda Bencic as she continued her title defence on Tuesday (September 30) at the China Open in Beijing. The number two Gauff defeated 15th seed Bencic of Switzerland 4-6 7-6(4) 6-2 in a match lasting just over two and a half hours to go through to the quarter-finals. In the next round she faces Eva Lys of Germany for a chance to advance to the semi-finals. Third seed Amanda Anisimova of the United States also dropped a set on her way to a quarter-final spot, the Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up eventually beat 13th seed Czech Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-2 6-4 to advance.  Anisimova will next face Jasmine Paolini of Italy. (Production: Bhagya Ayyavoo, Andy Ragg)

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VIDEO SHOWS: MAN CLIMBS AROUND GLIDER AT 2500 METRES ALTITUDE / SOUNDBITES  RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT  SHOWS: AIGEN IM ENNSTAL, AUSTRIA (RECENT) (RED BULL CONTENT POOL – No resales, no new uses after six months from date content is downloaded from Reuters, no more than 70% of this video content may be used on YouTube) 1. BLANIK-L13 OF THE RED BULL BLANIX TEAM GLIDER LEAVING HANGER 2. VARIOUS OF CLIMBER DOMEN SKOFIC PREPARING PLANE  3. SKOFIC PUTS HELMET ON 4. SKOFIC GETS INTO PLANE 5. RED BULL BLANIX TEAM PILOT EWALD ROITHNER PREPARES FOR TAKE-OFF 6. AERIAL VIEW OF VALLEY 7. VARIOUS OF GLIDER BEING TOWED INTO THE AIR 8. SKOFIC LEAVES COCKPIT 9. SKOFIC ON ROOF OF GLIDER 10. VARIOUS OF SKOFIC CLIMBING AROUND GLIDER 11. SKOFIC ON WING OF GLIDER 12. ROITHNER CELEBRATES 13. SKOFIC JUMPS OFF AND PARACHUTES TO LAND 14. SKOFIC TOUCHES DOWN AND CELEBRATES 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOMEN SKOFIC, CLIMBER, SAYING:     "There are no words that I would know that would completely describe what I experienced. It's for sure something like this has never been done before. And yeah, it's so much more than I, like I tried to visualize and stuff, but like the wobbles and the fluctuation of the G-forces and everything included like these things I could not imagine how they're going to actually feel. And it was incredible sensation, much harder than on the ground. I thought I'm prepared, but I wasn't. And that's one of the things which got me to doubt if I'm going to actually succeed or not. So in the end, I'm actually so lucky how I also like got with this two days of window that I had the opportunity to have just enough of a hard route to actually succeed on the end. I wanted something hard, but if I would make it just a little bit too hard, it would be off my limit." 16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) EWALD ROITHNER, PILOT, SAYING:     "The big technical challenges in the plane climb project was one thing, the aerodynamics. When a person is sitting on the wing, it destroys lift and it's hard to steer the plane. I feel the plane shaking, I feel the plane flying in one direction, this one part and the other part is the weight of the person. When Domen is climbing out on the wing, I feel the weight and to steer the plane in this situation was quite challenging." 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOMEN SKOFIC, CLIMBER, SAYING:     "My biggest challenge, especially on the first day was not getting my fingers too cold. Then the second one was for sure like getting the perfect flow through the G-forces, like through the fluctuation that everything was done in the right moment. So when there was a positive one that I could hold with both hands and then take the next move when we were actually like at the neutral zone. So that was quite an important part, but it was also that was why it was everything that much more demanding because I had like basically at some points, not just the force of the parachute of me or the weight of the parachute, but also like positive forces of the additional G-forces." 18. VARIOUS OF FAILED ATTEMPTS STORY: Slovenian professional climber Domen Skofic made history when he became the first person to master a specially constructed climbing route under the wings of a Red Bull Blanix glider over Aigen im Ennstal in Austria.     Equipped with only a 12 kilogram parachute, the 31-year-old climber out of the cockpit of the glider piloted by Ewald Roithner at a height of 2,500 metres and climbed in a figure-eight loop around both wings of the aircraft, passing over the underside.     Skofic first climbed out onto the underside of the left wing, returned under the fuselage and switched to the right side. There, he moved to the centre of the wing and transferred to the top with a precise move.     The route corresponded to a climbing difficulty of 8a but brought a completely new dynamic compared to a vertical climbing wall: in addition to gravity, the athlete had to balance the strong airflow of 80-100km/h that pushed him backwards from the front and sides. Added to this were perceived temperatures of -10 °C and changing G-forces.     After completing the climb in around a minute, Skofic finished with a parachute jump from a height of 1,500 metres.     "There are no words that I would know that would completely describe what I experienced," Skofic said.     "It was incredible sensation, much harder than on the ground. I thought I'm prepared, but I wasn't."     The Blanik is a comparatively large glider, which gives it excellent stability in the air. Its greatest advantage is the ability to fly very slowly while still remaining steady, although pilot Roithner admitted that Skofic's weight on the wings made flying the aircraft difficult.     "When a person is sitting on the wing, it destroys lift and it's hard to steer the plane. I feel the plane shaking, I feel the plane flying in one direction, this one part and the other part is the weight of the person. When Domen is climbing out on the wing, I feel the weight and to steer the plane in this situation was quite challenging," he said. (Production: Andy Ragg)

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VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM WTA CHINA OPEN RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: BEIJING, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) (WTA – see restrictions before use) COCO GAUFF (HEADBAND) V BEAT BELINDA BENCIC (WHITE CAP) 1. COCO GAUFF AND BELINDA BENCIC AT TOSS FIRST SET 2. OVERHEAD SMASH BY BENCIC TO BREAK GAUFF AND LEAD 5-3 3. BENCIC TAKES SET AS GAUFF NETS FOREHAND AFTER LONG RALLY 4. BENCIC AFTER WINNING FIRST SET SECOND SET TIE-BREAKER 5. BACKHAND WINNER BY GAUFF 6. DOUBLE FAULT BY BENCIC / GAUFF TAKES SECOND SET AND WALKING BACK THIRD SET 7. GAUFF HITS FOREHAND WINNER PAST BENCIC 8. GAUFF SEALS MATCH AS BENCIC NETS BACKHAND SLICE 9. GAUFF CELEBRATING / GAUFF BOX CHEERING 10. PLAYERS MEET AT NET AND SHAKE HANDS WITH UMPIRE 11. GAUFF WAVING TO CROWD AMANDA ANISIMOVA V KAROLINA MUCHOVA (WHITE SKIRT) FIRST SET 12. MUCHOVA WINS RALLY WITH SHOT AT NET SECOND SET 13. FOREHAND WINNER BY ANISIMOVA 14. ANISIMOVA VOLLEY WINNER THIRD SET 15. FOREHAND WINNER BY ANISIMOVA 16. MUCHOVA HITS BALL LONG, ANISIMOVA WINS MATCH 17. PLAYERS AT NET 18. ANISIMOVA WAVES TO CROWD STORY: Coco Gauff of the U.S. battled past Belinda Bencic as she continued her title defence on Tuesday (September 30) at the China Open in Beijing. The number two Gauff defeated 15th seed Bencic of Switzerland 4-6 7-6(4) 6-2 in a match lasting just over two and a half hours to go through to the quarter-finals. In the next round she faces Eva Lys of Germany for a chance to advance to the semi-finals. Third seed Amanda Anisimova of the United States also dropped a set on her way to a quarter-final spot, the Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up eventually beat 13th seed Czech Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-2 6-4 to advance.  Anisimova will next face Jasmine Paolini of Italy. (Production: Bhagya Ayyavoo, Andy Ragg)

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