It is necessary to believe that the concern had no reason to be.

Sunday evening, at the end of the 9th stage won by Bob Jungels, all the riders of the Tour de France were tested for Covid.

The recent positive cases (the French Guillaume Martin and Geoffrey Bouchard, as well as Tadej Pogacar's teammate Vegard Stake Laengen), raised fears of a wave of contamination.

It is not so.

All the tests carried out turned out to be negative, the UCI announced on Monday morning.

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The International Federation nevertheless insisted on the need to continue to be careful.

“The rules put in place two years ago in the interest of everyone's health and safety continue to apply.

These include the obligation to wear a mask, to maintain sufficient physical distance and to disinfect your hands frequently, ”writes the UCI in its press release.

" Soft focus "

Following the cascade of abandonments recorded at the Tour de Suisse in mid-June, the anti-covid protocol was updated before the start of the Tour by the International Cycling Union.

But the latter remains unclear.

In the event of a positive result, “the decision on possible isolation will be taken collectively by the doctor of the team concerned, the Covid-19 doctor for the event and the medical director of the UCI”.

In an interview with

L'Equipe

on Monday, Guillaume Martin, who felt in good shape, criticized this point of the UCI protocol and wondered about the definition of the criteria used to reach a decision: "It is a big soft focus and that's where I got it wrong.

I had stuck with the idea that the protocol had been arranged so that a positive but asymptomatic runner could continue.

I was thinking of entering this box.

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