Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has examined constructive for COVID-19 however all of the riders within the peloton had been adverse, organisers mentioned on Tuesday. Prudhomme should now go away the race for every week to enter quarantine. Prudhomme, who’s asymptomatic, mentioned he had examined adverse for coronavirus thrice earlier than the beginning of this yr’s race on “the 6, 20 and 27 of August”.
His position as chief organiser means he attends numerous social occasions throughout the race. On Saturday he accompanied French Prime Minister Jean Castex when he visited the race.
“I go away the Tour now for every week, I’ll do what any French worker would in this sort of case,” he confirmed to AFP.
“I will be watching the Tour on tv, one thing I have never carried out for 15 years,” added Prudhomme who has been answerable for the Tour since 2007.
He mentioned he was not stunned that the peloton had been all adverse, saying “the riders stay like monks or troopers”.
Intense curiosity had surrounded the outcomes of the 652 swab assessments because the riders had been arriving by bus on the stage 10 begin line on the Atlantic Island of Oleron.
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Beneath the strict coronavirus protocol in place any group that returned two or extra constructive PCR assessments, be they riders, managers, docs, masseurs or mechanics, threat expulsion.
The check outcomes had been introduced forward of Tuesday’s spectacular run between the 2 Atlantic Islands of Oleron and Re, each of which are actually linked to the French mainland by street bridges.
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