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October 20, 2020 – 6:44 am
AFP
The Colombian cyclist of the UAE Emirates team Fernando Gaviria tested positive for covid-19 after tests carried out on Monday on the second day of the Giro d’Italia and had to leave the race, his training reported on Tuesday.
“Gaviria was immediately isolated after the test result. He feels fine and is completely asymptomatic,” UAE Emirates said in a statement.
The Emirati formation specifies that “the rest of the cyclists and members of the staff tested negative and will be subjected to other tests today (Tuesday).”
Gaviria, who was not very successful in sprinting since the start of the Giro d’Italia, had already tested positive for the new coronavirus at the start of the season, at the end of February on the UAE Tour.
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The Colombian leaves the Giro without being able to win a stage and not repeat the good role of 2017, where he won four stages and the points classification, or 2019, in which he took a stage.
The 26-year-old cyclist from Antioquia, winner of two stages in the Tour de France in 2018, had won three stages of the Vuelta a San Juan in 2020 and one in the Tour del Limousin and the Vuelta a Burgos, in addition to the Giro de Tuscany.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the Giro organizers first announced a case of covid-19 within the team, before UAE Emirates confirmed their identity in a separate statement.
Another positive at the AG2R La Mondiale
The UCI and the Giro organization reported another positive, from a staff member of the AG2R La Mondiale team. A total of 492 tests were performed on the rest day, they indicated.
The two people positive for the coronavirus were entrusted to the doctors of the teams “who ordered the isolation measures and took the appropriate measures,” according to the organizers and the UCI.
The test operation carried out on Monday gave lower results, compared to the first day of rest: two cyclists, the Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk and the Australian Michael Matthews, as well as six members of the team’s staff, had tested positive at the time.
The following day, the Jumbo-Visma (the Kruijswijk formation) and Mitchelton-Scott (whose leader Simon Yates withdrew from the race due to mild symptoms) announced their withdrawal from the test.
The Giro d’Italia, which it adopted as the Tour de France before, the beginning of the “health bubble”, should end on Sunday in Milan, in a context of worsening of the pandemic.
On Tuesday, the sixteenth stage takes cyclists from Udine to San Daniele del Friuli, in the northwest of the country.
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