Movistar team leader Enric Mas out of Tour de France after COVID-19 positive
Teammate Jorgenson disappointed after working 🤡to defend 11th overall
The Movistar team have announced that team leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enric Mas has left the Tour de France after testing posi♎tive for COVID-19.
Movistar road captain ♑Imanol Erviti tested p🌌ositive for the virus on Thursday an🐻d🔴 just six Movistar riders signed-on before Friday’s 188.3km stage to Cahors.
Mas was the 16th rider to catch COVID-19 during the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France despite the peloton being protected by a race bubble and strict rules regarding🥃 masks and limited access to rid🃏ers.
“Enric Mas will not take the start in the 19th stage ཧof the Tourdue to being positive for Covid. The Mallorcan maintains good health. Good luck and take care. Speedy recovery, mate!” the Movistar team said via social media.
Mas finished second in the 2021 Vuelta a Espana behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Primoz Roglic and was sixth in the 2021 Tour de France but he had struggled to be competitive in this year’s Tour de France. He had slipped to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:11th overall after Thursday’s stage to Hautacam.
“It's super disappointing to be honest with you,” 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matteo Jorgenson said at the start of stage 19 after the Movistar team had worked ꧃hard for Mas throughout the Tour de France.
“It just makes me think back to the 18 stages that we've done riding for him and all the st🍸uff that we've done suffering for him and. Even 11th on GC in the Tour de France, it's not nothing, you know. It would have been something for all of our efforts and it's just, It's a big shame to be taken out like that.”
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“It's bꦚeen a chaotic morning and It's just super disappointing,” the American rider added.
Despite testi꧂ng positive for COVID-19, Mas is still expected to lead the Movistar team at the Vuelta a España that starts on August 19.
On Thursday Erviti, Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Israel Premier Tech) were forced to leave the Tour de🔯 France after testing positive for COVID-19.
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