Adidas Ag Ord (ADDDF) Q2 2023 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome and thank you for joining the Adidas AG Q2 2023 conference call. Throughout today's recorded presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, you may do so by pressing star and 1. Press the star key followed by 0 for operator assistance. It is my pleasure, and I would now like to turn the conference over to Sebastian Steffen, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Thanks very much, Francie, and hello, everyone. Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you're joining us today for our Q2 2023 results conference call. Our presenters today are our CEO, Bjorn Golden, and Tom Ohlmeier, our CFO. As always, Bjorn will kick it off in a second with our prepared remarks and we'll walk you through our Q2 results and our outlook together with Harm. As always also, I would like to ask you that during the Q&A session, you limit your initial questions to two in order to allow as many people as possible to ask their questions. Thanks very much in advance for sticking to that rule. And now, without any further ado, over to you, Bjorn. Thanks. We all know that they will not stick to the two questions, but we will try. As you can see on the screen, we start with the Women's World Cup. I hope you all follow it. It's been a great tournament so far. Unfortunately for us and for most people in the room, Germany lost. That means that we will only have five teams going to the next round. But still, I think starting with 10 and the way we look, extremely proud of how the brand has showed up. As you can see, we had 10 out of the 30 teams starting in three stripes, and we had more than...