LA ROCHELLE, France (Reuters) – All team members, runners and runners have undergone a coronavirus check and continued participation in the Tour de France depends on the effects to be announced a few hours before the start of the tenth level on Tuesday. .
Members of the “team bubble” had until 11:00 GMT on Monday, the first day of rest of the Tour, to pass a check in the cell lab made by the organizers.
In an email to groups notified through Reuters, the International Cycling Union (ICU) said team doctors had until Tuesday at 10:00 CET (08:00 GMT) to download verification effects on a compromised platform.
In case of results, the medical director of the ICU will contact the team doctor to evaluate the “next steps,” the email says.
Regulations established through the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) and the French fitness government stipulate that if two members of a team, runner or staff, were examined by coronavirus, the entire team would be excluded from the race.
The ICU, which suggested groups not to publicize the results, and ASO will do a prior to the start-up of the level at L’Ile d’Oléron.
The level is scheduled to start at 11:30 GMT.
France is facing an increase in coronavirus cases with nearly 25,000 more people tested positive in the last 3 days.
Four workers from the Soudal lottery team left the Tour de France two days before the start after two of them tested positive for COVID-19.
Slovenian Primoz Roglic is the general leader of the race ahead of Colombia’s protective champion Egan Bernal after the starting block of the race.
(Report via Julien Pretot; Editing via Pritha Sarkar)
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