Ronnie O'Sullivan: Snooker players treated like 'lab rats'
Snooker players are being treated like "lab rats" by allowing spectators into the Crucible Theatre for the World Championship, says Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Those that have booked tickets to attend the Sheffield venue will be placed in 'bubbles' of up to four people - limited to a maximum of two households - and will be socially distanced from others in the arena. He added: "Let's say one person gets ill and dies from the Crucible, that is one person who has died for no reason, just for entertainment.
Hamilton, nicknamed the Sheriff of Pottingham, has reached the World Championship quarter-finals on four occasions "I would feel a bit strange walking in a room with 10 people I don't know, and I have done. I didn't feel comfortable. "Maybe they have to start doing a test on crowds at some point and I've heard people say they're treating the snooker event a little bit like lab rats - you've got to start somewhere, start with snooker players.O'Sullivan says he has had friends die from Covid-19 and has not been within 20ft of his mum who is in the "high risk" category as she had pneumonia last year.
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