The specter of the COVID-19 virus, whose spread began to spread in Europe this summer, cast a worrying shadow over the Grand Start of the Tour de France in Denmark as the days passed until the opening of the time trial level. on Friday.
At the recent Tour de Suisse, the peloton was decimated by epidemics and massive withdrawals, and the effects of COVID-19 continued to be felt when the Tour brought this week.
On Tuesday, QuickStep-AlphaVinyl was forced to upgrade Belgian workaholic Tim Declercq with Florian Sénéchal, while on Wednesday morning, UAE Team Emirates called up Marc Hirschi after Matteo Trentin tested positive.
Ag2R Citroën’s Bob Jungels faces a tense wait after testing positive for COVID-19 in Wednesday’s pre-race test series. His participation in the 2022 Tour depends on another control on Thursday that yielded a pattern with a “slight viral load” according to the team doctor. Serge Niamke. AG2R Citroën said Greg van Avermaet would be called up at the last minute if Jungels remained positive.
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Daniel Ostanek is editor-in-chief of Cyclingnews, joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and was later hired as editor. Prior to Cyclingnews, it was published in many publications in the cycling world, adding Procycling, CyclingWeekly, CyclingTips, Cyclist and Rouleur, among others. In addition to reporting and writing news and reports, Daniel manages the content of “How to watch” the season.
Daniel reported on the races in the world, added the Tour de France, and interviewed several of the sport’s biggest stars, such as Egan Bernal, Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, Mark Cavendish and Anna van der Breggen. Daniel drives a 2002 C40 Colnago Landbouwkrediet and his favourite races are the Strade Bianche and the Vuelta a España.
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