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EFE · Road Competition · 10/13/2020
“Team Jumbo-Visma will not start today on the tenth stage of the Giro d’Italia,” the Dutch team announced in a brief statement on their official Twitter account.
In this way, there are already two teams that abandoned the race before the start of the tenth stage, after the Mitchelton-Scott march for four positives among its members.
In addition, this morning, the International Cycling Union (UCI) and RCS Sport, the organizing company of the Giro d’Italia, revealed that two riders: the Dutch Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) and the Australian Michael Matthews (Sunweb) tested positive and they were forced to withdraw.
The British Simon Yates, leader of the Mitchelton-Scott, was the first of the cyclists who had to leave after testing positive at the end of the seventh stage.
In addition, six staff members from the technical teams, four from Mitchelton-Scott, one from AG2R La Mondiale and one from Ineos Grenadiers, have also tested positive.
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