Jon Rahm still does not understand his positive in Covid: “In the first two tests I was negative, also I had no symptoms”

The world number one returns after the second stop forced by the Covid, after missing the Olympic Games.

• Jon Rahm, without Games after his second positive for covid in two months “Fate has other plans for me”

Almost a month after a Covid positive knocked him out of the Tokyo Olympics, Jon Rahm he still doesn’t understand it. “I do not have an explanation of what could have happened,” says the golfer at the press conference prior to the Northern Trust Open tournament, which will begin on Thursday.

The Spaniard returned to compete after the forced break after missing the Games, where he started with aspirations for a medal. However, he has not yet recovered from this blow: “I am still touched, I will not deny it, because I do not have an explanation of what could have happened, I did everything they told me I had to do, and took all the precautions On top of that, this time I had no symptoms. It was very frustrating, but these are the times we have to live “,

The golfer will have to wait three years to get the opportunity to be an Olympian again, but he still does not understand what could have happened to test positive. “It was very unfortunate and incomprehensible. In Britain, when I went to the British, I tested negative, on the PGA Tour test, negative too. On the first two tests negative and all of a sudden a positive. It was frustrating, I had been vaccinated just before. of the Memorial, I had all those negative results … but these are the times we have to live, “he said with resignation.

In addition, the Basque stressed that he had taken extreme precautions in the face of Tokyo: “My life passed between home, the gym, the golf course and now. A dinner but with all possible precautions. That is why it annoyed me more.”

From now on, number one only wishes that “this will leave him alone because it is a serious thing and quite a few people have suffered because of it.” With the play-offs, the Ryder Cup next month and then the final auction of the European Tour, the Spaniard hopes to be able to think only about golf, about playing his best and reaching Sundays with options to win.