Concern is growing in the peloton: from the start of the Cycling Tour of Spainon August 19 in Utrecht (Holland), thirteen runners have tested positive for covid-19 in this round, which on Tuesday arrives in Alicante in the tenth stage.
On Monday, the day of rest, the names of Mathias Norsgaard (Movistar) and Jarrad Drizners (Lotto-Soudal) dropouts due to a positive for coronavirus were added to the list.
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This Tuesday another cyclist joined, the British Ethan Hayter (Ineos). Thirteen of the 21 withdrawals registered so far in the Vuelta a España are therefore due to the coronavirus and the spread has accelerated in recent days, with ten cases detected between Friday and Tuesday.
the other enemy
“It’s a real plague. The tests continue to generate stress in the teams, but you have to continue. If you feel bad, you’re not going to race anyway. I think that should be the regulation, not a test,” he said on Monday. to AFP the Australian Ben O’Connor, climber of the French team AG2R, in which two runners (the Italian Andrea Vendrame and Finn Jaako Hanninen) They tested positive on Friday.
Among the dropouts due to covid there are also names like Anthony Delaplace (Areka), Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious) or Pietter Serry (Quick Step).
The Dutch formation DSM even has three dropouts since the start of the
Lap: Mark Donovan and Nikias Arndt they tested positive for covid-19 and Henri Vandenabeele resigned due to leg pain.
The protocol
The International Cycling Union (UCI) had announced on August 9 that it would apply to the
Return to Spain the same health protocol as in the Tour de France of this year.
The UCI “strongly recommends daily antigen testing for all team members (riders and staff), whether vaccinated or not.”
In the month of July, 17 riders had to leave the Tour de France due to covid-19, including the British Chris Froome, four-time winner of the ‘Grande Boucle’, or the Danish Magnus Cort Nielsenwinner in the tenth stage.
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