Ineos Grenadiers, AG2R-La Mondiale, Cofidis and Mitchelton-Scott have all recorded one Covid19 positive case in testing on the rest day of the Tour de France.
Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has also
tested positive and must now leave the race for one week but can return next
weekend.
However, of the four teams with positive tests none of the riders has tested positive and all four cases in those four teams arose with a staff member.
The four people who tested positive have now left the race bubble, Tour owners ASO has said in a statement today, below.
The results mean no team will have to withdraw from the race at this point but if a second positive case is recorded in any team they will have to leave the race under conditions imposed by the French government.
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There were no positive cases recorded for Sam Bennett’s Deceuninck-QuickStep, Dan Martin’s Israel Start-Up Nation or Nicolas Roche's Team Sunweb.
The positive case within Ineos Grenadiers comes just hours after team boss Dave Brailsford said he expected positive cases in other teams on the race but not within in his own team.
“It’s likely there will be issues but I wouldn’t expect our team to have any,” he told The Guardian newspaper in a story published just hours before the results of the rest day Covid19 testing were released.
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