50,000 people were not about to miss the pop event of 2008 in Austria. What’s more, it was the globally famous pop queen’s first-ever concert in Austria. While Madonna was still busy skipping rope with her band, paying fans lined up dutifully at the entrance. Paramedics, too, were getting a sense of the situation. Shortly after the gates opened, it turned into a race: the best standing spots in front of the stage were hotly contested โ and gone in no time.