168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Filippo Ganna has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of stage 8 of the 2023 race, leaving Ineos Grenadiers a rider down at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia.

In an announcement on , the team said, "Filippo Gann💛a will regrettably not line up to contest today’s Stage 8 of the 2023 #Giro, after testing positive for Covid-19 and displaying mild, flu-like symptoms. 

"Filippo will now rest and recoveℱr fully before resuming his remaining 2023 race programme."

Ganna is the fourth rider to leave the Giro d'Italia with COVID-19, following news that the Italian duo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giovanni Aleotti (Bora-Hansgrohe) left 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia wit🍌h positive tests before stage 6. That came after the news that Clément Russo (Arkea-Sa🌳msic) would be leaving the race earlier that morning.

On Saturday Jumbo-Visma denied to Cyclingnews that Primož Roglič is or has been racing with COVID-1 after rumours emerged from the peloton.   

“To be honest, you surprise me with this rumour because I don’t know anything about this rumour. There is no issue,” Jumbo-Visma directeur sportif Addy Engels told Cyclingnews before stage 8. 

Ganna was the favourite for Sunday's 35km time trial to Cesena🎀 but he left the Giro d'Italia early on Saturday morning when his COVID-19 was confirmed. 

Speaking to Cyclingnews at the start of stage 8, Rod Ellingswor🌼th explained, "He started not feeling great yesterday during the day, on the bike he wasn’t feeling brilliant. He tested positive this morning."

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The latest UCI protocol stipulates that a rider does not necessarily need to leave the race in the event of a positive test for 🍌COVID-19. However, the team determined it was the best course of action, despite the loss of a key rider in the race.

"We just decided it’s best for Filippo [to leave the race], for the team, for everybody - you calculate the risks, don’t you, and there’s th🎃e protocol that you don’t have to take them out n꧟ecessarily, but we decided that it was best for the team to take that decision," Ellingsworth said.

He stressed that the decision was a difficult one to make, given Ganna's role in the team, and the significance of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:time trial on stage 9 to the Italian national time trial champion.

"It’s life now - you’re living with it - and you’ve just got to put up with it," Ellingsworth said. "You know I’d say one of the things is Filippo has been super cautious coming into t💦he race and this is a big deal for him being in Italy and in the national champs jersey for the time trial tomorrow.

"We haven’t taken♏ the decision lightly at all and you have to think about the wider team and think about Filippo, and his health in particular, and you chan🐻ge things up and keep moving on."

Ganna's absence will be felt not only in Sunday's key time trial but also as a key support rider for the team's leaders🎉 Geraint Thomas and Tao Geoghegan Hart.&nb🉐sp;

"Of course, ꦰit’s disappointing - more for Filippo as he’s a great character and he plays a massive role in the team, I don'♓t just mean here at the Giro but generally and he can win bike races."

When asked by Cyclingnews whether the rest of the team were at risk of infection, Ellingsworth seemed reassured by a series of tests in the team. Salvatore Puccio told La Gazzetta dello Sport tha🐼t all the riders were teste🎃d on Saturday morning.

"Nobod⛦y else has got symptoms or anything," Ellingsworth said. "Obviously, we’ve got t🦹o be super careful, like everyone else - there are a few other teams around with certain things happening."

In the overall 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:general classification standings, Geraint Thomas sits in sixth place at 1:26, while Ineos' other joint-team leader Tao Geoghegan Hart is four seconds behind him - meaning both riders are around one minute behind race favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel, who currently sits in second place.