• Wednesday May 15, 2024 at 10:31 AM
After the retirement of Cian Uijtdebroeks and Olav Kooij from Team Visma | Lease a Bike and many other sick riders at other teams, it was suggested from various quarters that the corona virus is circulating in the Giro d’Italia peloton. This is done by Visma | Lease a Bike is strongly contradicted.
“There is certainly no question of corona within our team,” says a spokesperson for Visma | Lease a Bike against CyclingFlits On. “We still apply the same strict corona protocol as in recent years, with everyone in the team being tested every day. When someone has corona, we immediately notice it and intervene immediately. That is not the case now.”
According to the team, both leaders initially had some problems with their respiratory tract. “For Olav Kooij, this started the day before the rest day. The morning after his victory in Naples, he was diagnosed with a fever, which made further driving irresponsible. This was much to the disappointment of Olav, who absolutely wanted to complete his first big tour.”
Uijtdebroeks, who was fifth in the rankings last night, had the first complaints on the rest day itself. “It has gotten worse little by little in recent days. An increase has now also been measured for him, which means that continuing the Giro d’Italia is not an option.”
Several riders believe that a virus is circulating in the Giro peloton. At CyclingFlits Several riders said that there is a cough in the peloton, which affects many riders.
Previously, Robert Gesink and Christophe Laporte from Visma | Lease a Bike has already suffered injuries due to a crash in this Giro d’Italia.
2024-05-15 08:31:00
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