Quote: bonaire "I dont get these rules.
You can have an indoor snooker hall with a full attendance yet in an outdoor 25,000 capacity stadium you can only have 6000'"
Quote: bonaire "Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden was at the Crucible yesterday, and in an exclusive interview with The Yorkshire Post, explained the important role the tournament has played.
“This a really important part of the Events Research Programme,” he said. “We have got one aim in mind; how do we get as many people back as possible by stage four, June 21.
“We have to do it in a safe way. What we are doing through the Events Research Programme is looking at different environments and what the risk factors are. At the Crucible over the course of the fortnight we have slowly ramped up the numbers. It started at 25 per cent, today it’s 75 per cent, and for the finals it will be 100 per cent. We are then looking at the spread risks, we test people before and after, we are looking at the ventilation, crowd behaviour, to see how we can do this in a safe way.'"