Juan Ayuso tests positive for Covid-19, but will continue in the Tour of Spain

Juan Ayuso

, fifth overall in the

, has tested positive for

, but will continue to contest the Spanish round as he is "

", as reported by the

.

-old cyclist competes

has analyzed the PCR to which he has been subjected and they have found "

, similar to other cases we have seen this year in the Tour de France."

Dr.

, a doctor from the UAE, has made this decision "in consultation with the

and the

".

"We are closely monitoring Juan's situation and his medical condition," explains the doctor.

The

is being one of the main

of the Vuelta.

The rule of the

for the

(

) is clear: if a rider tests positive, "the decision that that cyclist must abandon the test will be made by the team doctor, the doctor specialized in Covid designated by the test and the medical director of the ICU".

That is,

.

The time of the PCR

To keep the peloton under control, the UCI requires all members of the event to carry out an antigen test on all rest days (every Monday of the race) and a

.

If the viral load is low, you can continue.

The problem?

Not all the PCRs arrive in time before the start of the stage, so the teams are forced to withdraw the runners who test positive because

.

The Ayuso UAE, for example, has

in which they analyze, at the moment, the viral load of its runners.

But not everyone has that tool.

However, the positives that have been given so far have been forced to

.

The most important, those of

,

in the general classification, who had to withdraw after testing positive on Thursday morning.

"There are two runners who without a symptom have to go home," denounced

, director of

, who has lost several cyclists.

In the same line,

, from

, has been shown, after it was confirmed that Ayuso is still in the race: "Some go home without knowing the viral load.

while waiting for the viral load result. Let the circus continue ".

Ayuso's headache

On Tuesday, just after the

in which he lost more than two minutes with

,

, but that he had done up to three antigen tests that had been negative.

"

, my head hurt and I thought I had Covid. I had a bad day, I lost a lot of time," he explained.

Ayuso had a "bad time" in the time trial, but in the following days he

.

He did not suffer in the flat stage on Wednesday, with the sprint finish in

, and

, in Estepona.

He arrived at the same time as Evenepoel, Mas and Roglic and even recovered some advantage with

, fourth overall.

Before the weekend in

, Ayuso is

and 1:50 from the third place on the podium, which right now belongs to Enric Mas.

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