COVID-19 continued to spark retirements at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, with the Movistar team announcing that their road captain Imanol Erviti tested positive for the virus, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Damiano Caruso also headed home after struggling in the Pyrenees, with Bahrain Victorious reve𝓀aling he was also positive for COVID-19.
“168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Imanol Erviti has returned a positive covid test, will not start @LeTour s18. Get well soon mate!” 𓂃the Movistar team tweeted on Thursday morning.
Adding: “Our captain is in good h﷽ealth. See you soon!&✃rdquo;
Erviti is the first M🐈ovistar rider to catch COVID-19 during the 2022 Tour de France. It is 🥃only the second time in his long career as a domestique and road captain that he has failed to finish a Grand Tour. He has started 28 Grand Tours and only failed to finish the 2012 Tour de France.
Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal) 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:left the Tour de France due toꦛ a COVID-19 on Wednesday before stage 17 and Aurélien Paret-Peintre and Mikaël Chére of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R Citroën and Max Walscheid of Cofidis did not start on Tuesd♋ay after rest day po✨sitives.
14 riders have now been forced out of the 2022 Tour de France due ⛎to COVID-19💖. 176 riders started the Tour de France in Copenhagen but only 141 riders are now left in the race.
Caruso was suffering with flu-like symptoms ac✱cording to in La Gazzetta dello Sport and Bahrain Victorious subsequently confirmed he was positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms.
"All ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚother riders and staff returned negative tests," the team 🌳said.
The Sicilian was in the attack on stage 16 to Foix, went clear alone but was soon distanced. He finished tenth in the 2020 Tour de France and second in the 2021 Giro d’Italia but had slipped to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:22nd overall in this year’s Tour de France.
It is the first time he has abandoned a Grand Tour after complet𒁃ing 15 three-weꦉek races.
