Is Glorious Goodwood on or off then?

[BrundanBianchi]

I was supposed to be going to Goodwood tomorrow for the ‘orse racing. However, BoJo has just said the ‘pilot events’ at sporting venues are off as of tomorrow. What gives?

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BrundanBianchi said:

I was supposed to be going to Goodwood tomorrow for the ‘orse racing. However, BoJo has just said the ‘pilot events’ at sporting venues are off as of tomorrow. What gives?

Racing is apparently on... but no spectators
https://www.chichester.co.uk/sport/other-sport/bre...

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The government has called a halt to all trials of crowds coming back to major sport events like racing and cricket.

Goodwood racecourse tweeted the news: "The government has informed racing’s leaders in the past hour that it has withdrawn permission for a pilot event involving customers, to proceed at Goodwood tomorrow. The racing on Sat 1 August will continue behind closed doors as it has on the previous four days of the meeting."

Adam Waterworth, managing director of sport at Goodwood, said the racecourse was given a heads-up around 11am by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport that the prime minister was about to announce the sport crowd trials were being put on hold.

[NickUSA]

Update now on the GW site:

https://www.goodwood.com/media-centre/qatar-goodwo...

[BrundanBianchi]

They’ve just confirmed that we won’t now be allowed to watch, as part of the pilot scheme. That’s fine, at least we know, and it’s for the greater good. I’ll hang on to these though



That’s a bit of history I think.