Cheltenham Festival’s Gold Cup day is set to go ahead on Friday, despite Boris Johnson confirming the UK will move to the “delay” phase of its plan to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
While Johnson admitted the government are “considering banning major public events like sporting fixtures”, the PM also insisted there is no medical reason to ban such events at this moment in time.
The Cheltenham Festival continued into day three on Thursday, with the showpiece Gold Cup scheduled on Friday, and has so far gone ahead as planned - albeit with crowds slightly down on last year's record numbers, and hand-sanitiser stations in place on course to aid hygiene and mitigate spread of the virus.
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