Four Lotto-Soudal staff members sent away from Tour de France after positive Covid-19 tests
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Updated 27/08/2020 at 21:04 GMT
Organisers have said that should two members of a team test positive for coronavirus, the outfit would be excluded from the Tour de France, which starts on Saturday.
The Lotto-Soudal team at the Tour de France team presentations
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Four staff members of the Lotto-Soudal team have been sent away from the Tour de France after two of them tested positive for coronavirus, the Belgian team said on Thursday.
"After a PCR test, specific to SARS-Cov-2, revealed two non-negative cases, Team Lotto-Soudal decided to send home two staff people, as well as their room mates. Safety remains priority number one," Lotto-Soudal said in a statement.
Organisers had said that should two members of a team test positive for coronavirus, the outfit would be excluded from the race, but sources told Reuters that the rule was "expected to be relaxed".
Organisers said the team were not excluded from the Tour, which starts in Nice on Saturday.
Team staff and riders are tested six and three days prior to the start of the three-week long race.
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