- The AG2R-Citroen group were down to three riders.
- When Aurelien Paret-Peintre and Mikael Cherel left.
- Testing positive for COVID-19, the French outfit said on Tuesday.
AG2R-Citroen were at that point without Geoffrey Bouchard, likewise out with COVID, and Ben O’Connor. Fourth in general last year.
Who deserted harmed following seven days, as well as harmed Oliver Naesen.
Frenchmen Paret-Peintre and Cherel remove the count of riders from the race with COVID-19 to 11 not long before Tuesday’s sixteenth stage to Foix as Cofidis said their German rider Max Walscheid has likewise tried positive for COVID.
On Monday, the International Cycling Union (UCI) had said that two riders’ tests required further examination.
Last year, in the event that two individuals from a group tried positive for COVID the entire outfit would be given the boot, which isn’t true in this release.
Whether a rider who tests positive can remain in the race is concluded following a gathering between race, UCI and group specialists, contingent upon the rider’s viral burden.
German Lennard Kaemna, who won a Tour stage quite a while back, won’t take the beginning either due to a “diligent cold”, his BORA-Hansgrohe group said.