Oomen and Van der Sande non-starters at Liege with COVID-19
♕Jumbo-Visma duo unable to take part in final Spring Classic

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jumbo-Visma have been hit by a double whammy of non-starters for Liège-Bastogne-Liège after it emerged Sunday morning that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sam Oomen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tosh Van der Sande will not be present becauꦦse of posit🧜ive tests for COVID-19.
Oomen and Van der Sande🦹 were set to be part of the team supporting Tiesj Benoot in his bid for victory in cycling’s oldest Classic.
Van der 🎀Sande described h𝐆imself as ‘gutted’ on a message posted on Twitter, but insisted his teammates were ready to take on the 258.1 kilometre race.
Another important name missing amongst the support riders for Liège-Bastogne-Liège late on was UAE Team Emirate’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Diego Ulissi: the Italian uphill finishe🧔r has falꦓlen ill and has been replaced by Michael Vink.
“Sam and Tosh are not really sick, but they do have an incr𓆉eased 🅰heart rate and feel a bit week,” Benoot told before the start.
"Sam was someone who could go very far in t🙈he final, he has already finished 11th here. Tosh was important for the positioning for La Redoute. We will now have💦 to deal with that in a different way."
Samuele Battistella (Astana-Qazaqstan) was another nonꦇ-starter at Liège-Bastogne-Liège because of sickness.
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The number of COVID-19 cases has dropped considerably in professional cycling in 2023 compared to the spate of cases in the💙 summer and autumn of 2022, but Oomen’s and Van der Sande’s positives for the virus are not the first this year by a long way.
French sprinter Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) had a delay on his season start as a result of a positive f🌼or COVID-19, Simon Clark (Israel-Premier Tech) returned a positive for the virus just before the Santos Tour Down Under, Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafred𒁃o) a month later and Michael Matthews (Jayco-AIUIa) in the countdown to Milano-SanRemo.
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.