The director of the Tour de France Christian Prudhomme, at the finish of the 3rd stage in Sisteron on August 31, 2020. -

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Christian Prudhomme will no longer have to watch the stages on TV.

The director of the Tour de France will resume his post this Tuesday morning, after a one-week hiatus due to a positive test for the detection of Covid-19.

An asymptomatic case

Absent for a week from the cycling race, he underwent a new test which turned out to be negative before returning to the event, we learned Monday evening from the organization.

The Tour director was the most noticed positive case, albeit asymptomatic, during the wave of tests in Charente-Maritime on the first day of rest of the race.

Another wave of tests, the last scheduled before the end of the Tour de France on September 20, was made on the occasion of the second day of rest, Monday, in the department of Isère.

Its results must be known before the start of the 16th stage, Tuesday in the middle of the day at La Tour-du-Pin.

All the members of the “bubble race”, ie around thirty people per team, underwent this new detection test.

According to the health protocol validated by the French authorities, a team risks exclusion if it presents two positive cases in its group.

Although he is not part of the “race bubble”, the acting director of the Tour, François Lemarchand, also underwent the detection test, which gave a negative result.

Alongside Jean Castex

After the announcement of his momentary positivity, Christian Prudhomme explained that he had been in contact with several populations, elected officials, partners, journalists.

"The riders are monk-soldiers, this is not my case," said the director of the Tour, with many protocol and media obligations.

Prime Minister Jean Castex, who had come to the Tour two days earlier, isolated himself for seven days.

The two screening tests he underwent, Tuesday and Saturday, were negative.

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