In the Tour of Switzerland it has been ax day in recent days: four teams and a lot of extra riders withdrew from the race due to the corona virus. So there is some unrest.
Patrick Lefevere is also not reassured: “Ten days before we leave for the Tour de France and it is as if we are being catapulted back in time. Thirty riders off course in the Tour of Switzerland, with whole teams at the same time. 19 is back from never being away”, it sounds in his column in The newspapaer.
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“I hear Marc Van Ranst say that there is no need to panic, that the organization can simply let the Tour of Switzerland continue. Possibly, but we all know in the meantime that what Van Ranst says is far from the gospel. panic, But I’m afraid it all starts from scratch.”
“The rest of the world has stopped testing, the race has not. Van Ranst points to the low clinical severity of the current variant, but the UCI protocol is what it is. Positive still means inactive. In several cases “Is it still possible that the entire team has to leave the race. I don’t have to draw a picture that such a scenario is a nightmare in the Tour. If what my sports director Brian Holm says is correct – that the infections also peak in Denmark – then I really hold my breath.”
